LGT Impact Fellowship

LatAm

Stories from an iCats fellow in Nicaragua: how to build more resilient communities in flood prone areas

Dear future applicant to the 2013 iCats fellowship program, If you are reading this blog you might be asking yourself whether it is worth to make a “pause” in you…more

20th July 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Others

Creating Impact: Alone or Together?

“Treading heavily on each other’s toes, bickering violently amongst themselves and competing in sometimes unseemly ways for ascendancy…” - Graham Hancock, Lords of Poverty In last few months of the fellowship,…more

9th July 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Others

Back in the classroom again in Southeast Asia

Three months into my iCats Fellowship, I can say: "congratulations to myself for resigning from my traditional banking job in London and taking the step to enter the classroom of…more

26th June 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Africa

Not My Typical Sunday

The power of the iCats fellowship hit me right away. My first assignment – literally – was to conduct site visits with members of the streetfootballworld network in Nairobi, Kenya.…more

22nd June 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Africa

m2m in action – photos

Enjoy some pictures from the sites where mothers2mothers works across Africa:more

20th June 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Africa

mHealth @ m2m

mHealth is defined as "Mobile eHealth or mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless health care delivery…more

15th June 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Others

From the Slums in Delhi to the Villages in Takeo: How Operation ASHA Scaled Up Across the Borders

The article is first in 'Social Enterprise Replication' series for Center for Health Market Innovations. Original post appeared here. Imagine a village of 1000 people who don’t have the access to…more

11th June 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Europe

Is your NGO on life support?

The blogosphere is filled with numerous articles of how to create a successful non-government (NGO) organisation but what is missing is a review of the most common death traps. In…more

1st June 2012,

LGT Team

Others

Floating Tuberculosis Centers – A Step Deeper in Mobile Healthcare Delivery by Adapting to Local Conditions (Part I)

Author's Note: This is the first post in series of two blog posts on floating centers of OpASHA in Cambodia Long ago, Cambodia was under water, except for a small…more

21st May 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

Africa

Fringe Benefits – iCats Program

One of the great things working as an iCat in new countries, cities, and continents are the endless options for exploration. This last week I jumped on a plane and…more

16th May 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

LatAm

The final destination – history, myth, magic & faith

A couple of days ago Alex Proimos, iCat fellow for Ciudad Saludable, and me set out to visit the old lima cemetery called “Presbitero Matías Maestro” which was a great…more

6th May 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow

LatAm

A day of humility

It's a lazy Sunday here in Peru. For me it's a chance to just catch up on things that I didn't get around to finishing during the past week. Living…more

6th May 2012,

LGT Impact Fellow