Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Successes: Social Entrepreneurship - Water pumps in Africa

           
A portable water pump is crediting itself with help 500,000 Africans lift themselves out of poverty.
"I went over to Africa as a socialist, and after about five or six years of hitting my head against the wall, became a small "c" capitalist," Fisher [the developer] said.

Hat tip: Poverty News Blog.

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  2. Feel free. I tweet as derrillwat, but fairly seldom. My #1 use for twitter is to share conference proceedings and save my notes, though it occurs to me I could at least link to my posts....

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