Water is Life
It’s a cliché, but it’s true: water is life. This past year, ODFL completed water projects in Kenya, Ivory Coast, Ecuador, and Nepal. The projects bring life, but they also bring freedom. ..
A Science Lab in Nepal
The greatest mental shift in the human race may have occurred when people adopted the approach of science for understanding the world. They put aside superstition and mythology as the dominant modes of thought and replaced them with ...
Hard choices
One of the dangers of working with developing world communities is arrogance. This shows up in the western donor trying to dictate to local, developing world recipients the kind of help they need.
Beehives in Kenya
One third of all the food humans eat is pollinated by bees. Yet, bee populations are in crisis around the world. Implicated in the causes are pesticides, climate change, mono-agriculture and more. ..
Vaccinating newborns in Nepal
The smallest things make the biggest difference. In #Nepal, ODFL helps vaccinate newborns against the 11 most common childhood diseases. We all know their names, but to us they are just medical textbook curiosities...
Build projects or give money? Which is best?
Should charities invest in traditional forms of development assistance, or just give money directly to impoverished recipients? A new study sheds light on the question…
The Beauty of Latrines
Latrines are not sexy. They’re not glamorous. But they are one of the most important elements in any comprehensive plan for economic development. Here’s why. ..
ODFL supports Ivory Coast conference for girls
In September, ODFL’s partner in Ivory Coast, Karat School Project, hosted a conference for teenage girls. The purpose was to encourage girls to stay in school....
Girls’ Equality Project helps teenage girls stay in school.
Half the world’s population live as second class citizens. That’s the female half. Part of the reason is that girls get less education than do boys. And the reason for that is that when a girl reaches puberty, if she cannot deal with her period, she ....
Thinking about altruism
We’re all familiar with the cliché about the goldfish that doesn’t know it’s swimming in water. We’re less aware that we human beings swim in our own water, and we’re just as unaware as is the goldfish that we do so.
The question is, what is our water?
