Microinsurance: Weathering Life’s Storms
Tigo Mobile offers microinsurance as a loyalty perk to keep customers coming back for more minutes. Microinsurance helps [...]
Mobile Money: Leapfrogging Women into Financial Inclusion
Give Directly sends money to recipients, no strings attached, via M-Pesa's mobile money system, Kenya. Photo: Give Directly [...]
Savings: A Path out of Poverty
Members learning to run their own Village Savings & Loan Society, Colombia. Photo: Microenterprise Access Banking Services (MABS) Program [...]
Microcredit: Upgrading on the Installment Plan
A new BRAC microfinance client in Bangladesh. Photo: BRAC Microcredit is an important tool to help women, previously [...]
Digital Platforms: Megaphones for Women’s Voices
Training Insight Share researchers in Tanzania Photo: InsightShare Digital communication is a [...]
Internet: Connecting the World’s Poorest
A telephone operator's first time on the internet, Uganda. Photo: Innovations for Poverty Action Internet is so integrated [...]
More Computing Power at Less Cost
Barakrat computer class. Photo: Barakatworld.org People who've owned computers for decades have watched them decrease in size, increase [...]
Cellphone: Queen of Multitasking Tools
Zambian kid texting away. Photo: Imani Cheers, Flickr Cellphones are now cheap enough that a large portion of [...]
TV Edutainment Lowers Birthrates
Same-Language Subtitles help teach reading in Gulbai Tekra Slum - Planet Read TV offers cheap entertainment world-wide. It [...]
Radio: Better Than Ever
Students in a Lusaka township in Zambia meet their new teacher, a Prime LIfeline radio. While cellphones used [...]
Literacy: The Mightiest Tool of All
Learning to read in Oaxaca, Mexico. Photo: Pilar Portela/ Wikipedia Commons Literacy is the mightiest poverty alleviation tool [...]
An Affordable, Adorable Wheelchair
Pablo Kaplan and Chava Rothstein's award winning design "Adorable" and "wheelchair" are not usually paired, but Pablo Kaplan [...]
Wheelbarrows and Handcarts: Low-Tech Liberation
Tree Nursery worker in Kebe Guy, Senegal - Photo: Trees for the Future It seems somewhat shocking that wheelbarrows [...]
Bikes: Expanding Access & Moving Goods
Photo: re-cycle.org Afriyie Ekua, Outreach Nurse, Ghana, carries mosquito nets and drugs in the basket, and has mechanic training. [...]
Inesfly: Paint That Vaccinates Houses
An ad for paint that will protect you from deadly insects! Photo: InesflyNigeria Inesfly, microencapsulated paint, was developed [...]
Solar Bottle Light Bulbs: Free Light!
Cleaning off a newly installed solar bottle light bulbPhoto: A Liter of Light MumbaiTool 76 in the #countdown is solar bottle light [...]
Plastic Thatch – An Eco-Roof Overhead
Vananh Lee - Co-head of the ReuseEverything Institute shows off their invention: plastic thatch Thatched roofs are picturesque, but when people move [...]
Bottle Bricks: Upcycyling Plastic, Building Schools
Bottle Brick school wall - Photo: Hug It Forward/Rotary Bottle bricks, empty plastic bottles filled with compressed non-biodegradable waste, originated [...]
Don’t Just Teach Women to Fish: They Can Raise the Fish, Too!
Photo: Practical action. Fishing means lifting and emptying the cage!Tools 73 in the #countdown is micro farm-fisheries. For the many [...]
Goats: Grazing Out of Poverty
Photo: N Siddhu - FlickrGoats are popular poverty-busters. They eat most anything (so they must be watched) and can survive drought. [...]
