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Cellphones may take banking to the rural poor in the third world
In many third world countries, where bank branches are few and far between, the development that finally may make financial services practical for the rural poor fits in the palm of a hand. Mobile devices like cellphones have the potential to effectively bring financial markets to the countryside, allowing banks and other lenders in urban […]
Climate change: a local perspective
Bhutan: Farmer Rinchen had endured, without complaints, the weeds competing for nutrition and sunshine in her chili garden for many seasons. But in recent years she has come across new weeds that spread faster. “There are so many foreign weeds in the garden and they spread very fast,” says the 65-year old farmer from Semtokha, […]
Traditional water mill technology helps boost livelihoods
Sitting in a tiny water mill, popularly known as a ‘ghatta’ in Nepalese, 65-year-old farmer Ram Sharma waits for his customers to come with their wheat and maize to grind flour for a small fee. Sharma built his ‘ghatta’ two years ago after he lost all his farmland and property in flash floods that devastated […]
Digital Photo Studio in School telecentre in Bangladesh
Author: Nazrul Islam of Relief International, Bangladesh Let me share a story about how a school based telecenter in a Bangladeshi village has recently turned to a digital photo studio. Relief International -School Online set up an Internet enabled telecenter in Chowra Girls High School in Chowra Village in Comilla district in early 2005 as […]
$100 magic wand seeks to change Nepal kids’ lives
A magic more enchanting than any of the Harry Potter tales will sweep through Nepal soon, thanks to a pair of students who are working to take $100 laptops to children in the country’s remotest and most underdeveloped villages, where there is no electricity or even books. The “magic pencil” that will write such plots […]
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