March 13th, 2015
When a group of design and architecture students, plumber, educator, engineer, dental technician, school staff and children combine for 10 days…the results can be exciting. The recently completed Nepal Studio…
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March 11th, 2015
Another Sago Studio, run by Sago Network, has been completed in Papua New Guinea. This Studio worked in two communities and provided better water pumps and a trial of two…
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February 27th, 2015
The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) notes – The report, Hearing health outreach services to Indigenous children and young people in the Northern Territory: 2012-13 and 2013-14 looks…
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February 25th, 2015
Nothing highlights the power of a multi-skilled group of local, national and international participants in a design project more than a week long Design Workshop in Nepal. Imagine combining school…
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February 25th, 2015
Thanks to WorldSkills for helping Sago Network improve the hand pumps destined for the water supply project in Papua New Guinea. Geoff Ball, past WorldSkills Manufacturing Team Challenge Chief Expert,…
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February 24th, 2015
Why does the idea of complex problems needing big thinking, recently proposed by the President of the Rockefeller Foundation, Judith Rodin ring alarm bells. We are not the first to…
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February 23rd, 2015
The 2015 Nepal Design workshop was a big event and over the next week you will see some of the results posted here. But for now a small incident linking…
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February 23rd, 2015
Keeping school toilets clean when they adjoin a dusty and occasionally muddy playground is not easy. Does it really matter if the floor ‘looks’ dirty? The answer – maybe no…
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February 11th, 2015
The Nepal Village Health Improvement Program Design Workshop for 2015 has begun. The Workshop combines architecture students from two Australian universities, plumbing and engineering representatives from a strong supporter of…
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January 27th, 2015
In a recently recorded TED talk, Joe Madiath makes a strong case for the importance of removing human waste safely using passion, humour and a lifetime of work. Joe Madiath…
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January 20th, 2015
The University of New South Wales have announced a partnership with Judith Neilson, director of Sydney’s White Rabbit Gallery and philanthropist, who has endowed the institute with AUD10Million with the intention to…
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January 19th, 2015
HH can not confirm that this is true and the AFH website reveals nothing of the closure, but the founders of AFH should know a little about the organisation and…
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