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How might we use social business to improve health in low-income communities?
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Make it Yourself Social Enterprise Book
A book of DIY designs for everyone to make themselves everything from a hammer to a bicycle, from a refrigerator back to a spade. Cheap, easy-to make designs with clear instructions that use local easy to access resources. Case-studies are also included of successes and failures in social enterprise.
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James McBennett
MaD Mums - Mothers as "Doctors"
This concept should be a part of an overall strategy – EMPOWER THE PEOPLE of Caldas to take the destiny in their hands and build themselves a better life. This part concerns the improvement of their health and empowerment of women.
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Vesna Misanovic
July 14, 2011
12:30AM |
San Jose de Caldas de Puertas Abiertas
A homestay platform that matches people in search of an authentic immersion experience with the rural families and their locatl techniques. A social business that empowers the rural women and that benefits the whole community.
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D4SB IED
July 14, 2011
12:05AM |
My Mum of a Day
When my mum works, I have my mum of a day
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Vesna Misanovic
July 13, 2011
11:09PM |
Caldas Feliz – happy to live here
This concept should be a part of an overall strategy – EMPOWER THE PEOPLE of Caldas to take the destiny in their hands and build themselves a better life. This part concerns the improvement of their health and their environment.
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Vesna Misanovic
July 13, 2011
10:02PM |
Help Children Grow Tomatoes using EarthBoxes
EarthBoxes are a highly efficient, foolproof method of growing tomatoes suitable for crowded urban areas. Children can easily set up EarthBoxes and grow some of their own food, organically promoting better nutrition for themselves and their families.
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Avi Solomon
July 01, 2011
03:34AM |
Theater Inc.
At the core of most of the health issues Caldas is facing, is a lack of disseminating information
If the information necessary to maintain a good degree of health can be provided to the people of Caldas in an entertaining way, the problem can b...
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Abhijit Sharma
July 12, 2011
09:08AM |
Exchange your knowledge and share the benefits!
The idea is to create a system that follows a cycle trying to waste the fewer amounts of resources with the most possible efficiency. For that reason the proposal is the creation of an innovating social cultural center within the rural communities...
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Leidy Viviana Abril
July 09, 2011
05:34PM |
Want a holiday with a difference? - Try a holiday that MAKES a difference!
promotes health related behavioural change thru education, interaction & awareness,
research project funded by 'eco-social' tourism - tourists book working holidays to participate in the research bringing diverse expertise to local health problem...
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Penny Hadley
July 11, 2011
06:27AM |
Local water for a global market
Create a distinct looking water bottle which can be used to sell the local Caldas spring water in a global market
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Anne Kjaer Riechert
July 08, 2011
09:49PM |
Inspire: a low-cost breathing assistant for infants in rural settings (www.inspiremedical.org)
Noor is a three-year old girl suffering from respiratory distress in rural Bangladesh. It took Noor and her 22-year-old mother two days of travel via buses and trains to get to a hospital. Having previously lost two infants to respiratory distress...
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Pamela Pavkov
July 05, 2011
09:49PM |
Improving health before fighting diseases: Multivitamin Supplements Sold by the unit.
Taking the example of other businesses that have successfully adapted their offers to the daily income of families in low income communities, not reducing their prices but the out-of-pocket by reducing selling presentations such as microfinance an...
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Rodrigo Isasi
July 10, 2011
06:37AM |
Manizales - the new cool party drink for the eco conscious
Instead of exporting the number one crop in the area direct, why not employ more locals to turn that crop into an exportable drink, bringing more revenue to the region and using some of those profits to drive health and education programs for the ...
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Shan Jayaweera
July 03, 2011
02:14PM |
THE FAMOUS BAZZAR of CALDAS
This is an idea developed based on Architecture Commons' "Community Kitchen Caldas - eating inexpensive and healthy meals together!"
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Sean Bunjamin
July 11, 2011
10:20PM |
Health-care Vending Machines
The social business is around distributing basic, sometimes life saving, medication to the people in remote areas. What if we think of a model to deliver basic health-care items such as vitamins, oral rehydration salts, birth kits, condoms, zinc t...
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Krassimira Iordanova
June 28, 2011
05:07PM |
A profitable social business to provide standardised/mass customised healthcare for the masses
This concept aims to build a profitable social business which will provide standarised/mass customised healthcare for the masses. The concept aims to use the McDonald's model where employees are trained in the same way to provide the same quality ...
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Srinivasan Sankaranarayanan
July 04, 2011
12:11AM |
Decentralized Micro-Entrepreneur Hubs: (ME Hubs)
A cost-effective architectural hub for socio-economic stimulation, health improvement and support using customized 20ft and 40ft ISO shipping containers .
Empty ISO containers can provide a flexible method of architecture as a modular/prefab s...
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Jason Morenikeji
July 12, 2011
05:54PM |
Construction Outreach Caldas - Building safely in a bottom-up network
Construction Outreach Caldas (COC) is a small mobile team of design-builders that travel around the region of Caldas to tackle construction-related problems together with the community. COC operates like a cooperative, with members participating a...
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Architecture Commons
July 01, 2011
11:12PM |
Sponsored tourism.
Many people have skills and abilities to offer, however they do not necessarily have the financial means to buy a plane ticket nor pay for expensive hotels. Many people do not want to stay in hotels at all, basic 'on the ground' accommodation is a...
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Andy M Beattie
July 03, 2011
07:04AM |
Tell-a-Friend!
Caldas is a close-knit community.
The children know what's happening in relatives/friends/and their own household
Children go to school/seminars and learn things.
Let's give these children a voice, by facilit...
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Abhijit Sharma
July 12, 2011
11:52AM |
Arepas_lab.com
The idea is to spread this project through the Manizales Fair which is recognized worldwide. In that way we seek to encourage the trade of food and typical local objects, such as Arepas, the Hogao (stew made with onions and tomato), Porridge and o...
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Leidy Viviana Abril
July 09, 2011
06:07PM |
