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World Challenge Programme May 23, 2011
Do any of you watch this program or check the website? I've watched this for a few years now and it is extremely inspiring to see positive things being done to make life better around the world. Sometimes seemingly small changes can have an large impact in some communities. For example, the simple peanut shelling machines brought to the one Malawi village allowed the women's co-operative to shell peanuts five times faster, increasing their profits, and allowing them to pay for a bore hole to bring clean water to the village. Now the incidence of disease has dramatically decreased and they can continue to fund other projects that benefit the village from their increased earning power due to the peanut shelling machines.

Here is the website where you can see all of the finalists from 2005-2011.

http://www.theworldchallenge.co.uk/previous_winners

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peanut shelling machine, a world challenge? sure the world will be different with this machine now, don know, I thought it was about medical research, quantum physics or biomechanic
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capsicum wrote:peanut shelling machine, a world challenge? sure the world will be different with this machine now, don know, I thought it was about medical research, quantum physics or biomechanic


oh man! *duck*
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Nice K. It's amazing to see that things which we could consider minor, make such a huge difference to other communities around the world.
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Chocoholic wrote:Nice K. It's amazing to see that things which we could consider minor, make such a huge difference to other communities around the world.


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Looking at the finalists, they're all worthy causes and it would be extremely hard to pick a winner from them.
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Re: World Challenge Programme May 24, 2011
Bethsmum wrote:
Chocoholic wrote:Nice K. It's amazing to see that things which we could consider minor, make such a huge difference to other communities around the world.


The biggest improvement to Dubai would be if you weren't in it.


See BM, you've just come in and crapped on a perfectly good thread.

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capsicum wrote:peanut shelling machine, a world challenge? sure the world will be different with this machine now, don know, I thought it was about medical research, quantum physics or biomechanic


True, so this site is for you capsicum http://nobelprize.org/ You are mistaking the meaning of "World Challenge", just thought I'd point that out. :D
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