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November 2008

DM2005 winner to scale up its activities after winning Dubai Award

Submitted by Scott Poynton on Wed, 11/26/2008 - 16:49

In my last posting, I mentioned the importance of securing new funding to scale up activities. I’ve got some great news to share today and that is that our efforts to secure more financial resources have borne fruit in that we’ve just received news that we’re one of 12 winners of the biennial Dubai Awards.

Growing the Business – How to Secure Funds to Expand your Reach

Submitted by Scott Poynton on Mon, 11/10/2008 - 18:12

Now that your project is a success, you’re going to want to do more of it to impact more people in more and different contexts. How do you do it?
 

Replacing kerosene lamps with solar lanterns

Submitted by Andy Schroeter on Thu, 11/06/2008 - 09:30

I am really in a rush, I am leaving Vientiane to participate in The Tech Award ceremony, organized by The Tech Museum in San Jose, California in the next hours. We were selected as a Laureate for one of our innovative concept of selling Light per hour with portable battery lanterns charged by a central village charging station operated by a village entrepreneur.