By Jane Berry | ColaLife Research, Business & Development
Great news this month!
Firstly, we have recieved a very generous donation from Packaging World and Healthcare Packaging, to help us co-fund 5,000 more Kit Yamoyo Aidpods! This means we can raise our target again - to help at least 20,000 children in our next phase - which we hope to begin this December.
Secondly, Claire Ward, Director of a documentary about our work The Cola Road, has won Best Director at the AOF film festival in California. The Cola Road was Claire's first documentary, made as part of her Masters project. Although ColaLife is very small, we do love to involve young people from across the world where we can, to support their career and help our cause. It's great to see a 'win-win' like this, and we have another one in the pipeline that we hope to announce next month!
Rohit Ramchandani, another of our fantastic young collaborators and doctoral candidate at Johns Hopkins University, is with us in Zambia at the moment. He's out in the field for 12-15 hours at a time in remote areas - a full day's travel from the capital, Lusaka - overseeing and supporting the evaluation team as they go from house to house collecting data for our endline survey. After our first year, what impact are we having? We can't wait to see the results. Every evening he phones us - when he can get through - with stories and insights from distant communities who are using Kit Yamoyo to save their children's lives. It's early in the process, but things are looking good.
Finally, YOU can help us this month! Each new recurring donation pledged before 30th August will be matched for this month only, by an anonymous donor. You can double your impact, pledging as little as $10 or up to $200 - provided it recurrs for at least 4 months. Every little helps, and recurring donations, however small, help us to plan ahead and work even smarter!
With many thanks for your continued support!
Best wishes
Jane and Simon Berry
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