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Small Inputs Can Lead to Large Outcomes

The other day I first came across the so-called Beatrice Theorem: Small Inputs Can Lead to Large Outcomes. Nicholas Kristofs tale starts in Uganda, were Beatrice Biira grew up as the child of poor farmers unable to sent their education-hungry daughter to school. At the same time a church community in Connecticut decided to donate [...]
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Volunteering – „Lifestyle NGO“

Large numbers of young Germans are embarking on a volunteering trip to a developing country – and the numbers are increasing ever since the German Ministry for Development created Weltwärts earlier this year. 70 Millionn Euro are availabe for this largest European volunteering organisation, enabling up tp 10.000 youth between 18-28 years to help out [...]
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Burma: The real disaster

It’s absurd: On the one hand, cyclone Nargis that devastated Burma served as destraction from the fact that the people of Burma have been suffering from oppression and hunger for a long time. On the other hand, it’s a grim reminder of how bad things really are in the country tyrannised by its military regime. [...]
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The WTO Project powered by betterplace

Noa, Fionn and Holger in the Berlin WTO-project headquarters at UdK, Berlin Just before I left for my summer vacation I met Noa and Fionn, the two design students of Axel Kufus, who are going to devote their final design thesis to our WTO sanitation project. Also present were Prof. Axel Kufus, Christian Zöllner, his [...]
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Sanitation is king

After having hosted workshops for the “real WTO”, the World Toilet Organization, this May, we at betterplace have become more sensitive to the global toilet and sanitation issue. Thus today, over lunch, new team member Jens Best (we’ll introduce him more thorougly next week), on the spur of the moment, came up with an intriguing [...]
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