Life Saving Innovations
A friend’s email shared with us information about this great invention that saves a lot of life. It leads me to visit the website of the company who produce it. Try visit the company website and by filling a short survey, the company promise to donate one unit of either their Life-Straw or Permanet (Insecticidal Net) product to those needed in the world’s poorest countries.
Some brief introduction about the great product by the company itself:
“Half of the world’s poor suffer from waterborne disease, and nearly 6,000 people – mainly children – die from diseases contracted from unsafe drinking water every day.
LifeStraw® water purifiers have been developed as a practical way of preventing disease and saving lives, as well as achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe water by the year 2015.
LifeStraw® and LifeStraw® Family are complimentary point-of-use water filters – truly unique offerings from Vestergaard Frandsen that will help people obtain safe drinking water at home and outside – paving the way to accomplishing the MDGs.”
Introduction to Kiva
It must be dragged for too long due to procrastination. Learn how to overcome it here…
However, this is to introduce to friends about this online community where target to help overcome poverty in many third world countries. The community partners with various microfinance institutions in order to reach the outstanding entrepreneurs from impoverished communities worldwide. The microfinance partners professionally choose and upload their entrepreneur profiles directly to the site, and you as a community member can review and decide to lend some fund to them to start their entrepreneur adventure. Your are in control of where your money goes to. Normally it only requires you to come out with a relatively small amount of money for helping them, and due to the power of community, multiple small amount can be accumulate to become a big pool of fund to help more people in need.
The system do keep track the loans and repayments. When you get your loan money back, you can relend to other person in need. What we see here is a group setup fro Malaysians. Join the group and show to the world that we are people that concern. We have been too selfish and ignorance, it’s time to change. Despite of concerning what is in the country, we need to tell the world that we Malaysian are global thinking. We love human beings as a whole, regardless of race, country of origin, religion and skin color, what ever… Yes, you start to ask, where to go? Here it is: http://www.kiva.org/.
