Can Coke save lives in Africa?
By timebandit •
Travelling through a remote part of north-eastern Zambia in 1988, Simon Berry was struck that no matter where he stopped, people would ask him: "Would you like a Coca-Cola?"
With just two people for every square kilometre, it was of the most sparsely populated places in the world.
In this area today, one in five children dies before their fifth birthday, most from dehydration caused by diarrhoea.
In a region where the challenging logistics of getting medical supplies to mothers was killing children, Coke was readily available.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11711409
An elegant solution don't you think. But what I want to know is how do they keep the Coke cold?
Thums up ?
Something doe no smell right :O(
Gods Must Be Crazy... oh yeah Brit. Good call. I have both 1 & 2 on DVD and they crack me up whenever I watch them ;)
Not shop right on the airport road, but "Shop Rite" :-P... it's about 200 mtrs after the Matar Kadeem signal onto your right, but before the E-Ring road signal ;-)
reads like a great innovative idea and if it works may very well save lives, Inshallah. Wow..how can Pepsi ever compete with that?
thebestlotus all of it... Jaipur, Ajmer, Sikar, Bharatpur, Jhunjhunu, Kota, Boondi, Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Chittor, Udaipur, Bhilwara, Churu, Banswara....
how..??
hey WK...where in Rajasthan have you visited ? I am from Ajmer city
Seven loaves of Kingsmill Bread and a can of Coke... can feed a multitude... its mentioned in the Bible...
Excellent idea... Simple and workable.
But , isn't it Coca Cola that has caused problems in Africa in the first place -
Remember , The Gods Must Be Crazy ? :O)
i've seen thums up in eat pray love, does it really cause diabetes because of the sugar content on it? :D
Now I have to try some... which shop right on the airport road Colt?
Thums Up cans were avbl at Shop Rite on the airport road. I have bought some before ;-)
No
Thums Up :P
"thumbs up"?
Never seen it on my travels WK
This brand of coke tasted better warm compared to the rest
http://www.google.com/images?rlz=1C1GGGE_enQA366QA366&q=thums+up&safe=active&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=681&safe=active
I don't know if it's available outside India
WK you are surely a wise man ;)
Oh I was...
In some places the only options were, tea, cheap cigarettes and warm coke... Since I wasn't sure of the quality of water used, I stuck to cheap cigarettes and warm coke and avoided tea
WK ewwwwww! Warm Coke is pants. I would have to be desperate to drink it.
Please read the full story first. I didn't C&P enough of it.
And if anyone starts harping on about boring threads, please feel free to take this one over and make it more interesting yourself, or alternatively create a nice interesting topic for me to join in on.
They don't..
In Rajasthan in India, which is mostly desert, I used to get warm coke all the time..