Innovative Solutions for Clean Water and Medical Aid

Study Notes

Hippo-Roller is a rolling wheel that can carry 90 liters of water and is easier to move than plastic buckets.
LifeStraw is a special straw that cleans dirty water as it passes through and can clean up to 1,000 liters of water before replacement.
Hippo-Roller and LifeStraw help provide clean water to people in remote villages in Africa and after natural disasters.
Many women and children in Africa spend 3-9 hours a day carrying water, which causes injuries and limits their time for other activities.
LifeStraw was used after the Haiti earthquake, floods in Pakistan and Thailand.
There are 780 million people in the world who lack clean safe drinking water.
AidPod is a triangular packet of medicines that fits between bottles in a crate of Coca-Cola.
Simon Berry invented AidPod to bring medicines to remote African villages where Coca-Cola is already delivered.
One in five children in these remote African villages die before their fifth birthday due to lack of medicines.
AidPod is being tested in Zambia with the hope of expanding to other African countries to save thousands of lives.