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Simon Berry, ColaLife
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- Source of my passion about the power of business to fight poverty
- I am a social entrepreneur, I work for government, I work for a non-government organisation
- Website:
- http://colalife.org
- Industry:
- ColaLife Campaign and Defra (Head of Third Sector Strategy)
- About my work:
- I am interested in partnerships and collaborations between the business and other sectors that generate win-win opportunities for all parties and alleviate suffering and poverty at the same time.
I lead a campaign with a growing number of members (>7,000) which is interested in working with Coca-Cola to reduce child poverty. We want to use Coca-Cola's distribution muscle in developing countries to save children's lives.
The campaign is called ColaLife and it has a website, blog, Facebook Group, Flickr Group, Google Group and more. There are more details here:
http://colalife.org
- Interested in:
- Professional Contacts, Potential Partners, Sharing resources, Potential Investors
- Topics on my radar:
- Piloting of the ColaLife idea.
Simon Berry's Photos
Simon Berry's Blog
ColaLife AidPod Animation Released!
I've had this animation for a couple of weeks but didn't want to release it before its debut at Chain Reaction on Thursday (12/11/09) where I had the privilege of presenting the ColaLife story (so far) during the opening plenary.
A big thank you is due to my son Sam who put this animation together (the audio lets it down a bit but that's down to me!).
Does anyone want a copy for their iPhone/mobile?
That can be downloaded… Continue
Posted on November 15, 2009 at 10:09pm —
ColaLife Limited - ColaLife incorporates
It's official. Yesterday ColaLife's Certificate of Incorporation arrived from Bells, Wells & Braithwaite. ColaLife Limited is a company limited by guarantee (non-profit).… Continue
Posted on September 11, 2009 at 3:38pm —
ColaLife invited to present at World Food Innovation Convention
I have been invited to give a ColaLife presentation at the 8th Annual World Food Technology & Innovation convention in Rotterdam at 15:35 on 27 October. It looks like it's a plenary session. The pr… Continue
Posted on September 1, 2009 at 10:33pm —
ColaLife brokers partnership with global NGO for Tanzanian field work
Our first major achievement was to get Coca-Cola's agreement to look at trialling our ideas on the ground in Africa. Now we can reveal our second major achievement: we have successfully found them the partner th… Continue
Posted on August 12, 2009 at 9:34am —
ColaLife Twittermob Rally! Join us there or online
This Friday (17/7/09) we will be gathering in Trafalgar to celebrate ColaLife and see the giant aidpod take its rightful place on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square!
Build-up
Please:
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Posted on July 12, 2009 at 12:11am —
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We aim at providing Business Model & creating Opportunity for the poor, Under and Un Educated Youths, Training and assistance to young ENTREPRENEURS to help them to start their own industry for growth, be Self Employed to escape the endless cycle of poverty.
We have developed compact Mini machines (Plastics) affordable and convenient for the common people to start with a very small capital. The machine provides wide product range and many industry options to work with. We have been conferred by PLASTINDIA FOUNDATION with PLASTICON AWARD for the same.
We provide training and assistance to Entrepreneurs to start their own ventures in Plastic industry and also participate in EDP organised by Government and Non government organisations
Thank you for the connection. I look forward to keeping in touch.
Kindest regards.