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By Tim Berry
Kids Play and Pump Water for the Village

Here’s an idea. Take a look at PlayPumps, for the developing world. Kids play on a merry-go-round and pump water for the village:

Thanks to Guy Kawasaki for picking this up in How to Change the World: “The Cleverest Idea I’ve Seen In Years”

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  1. Nonprofits with Legs and Teeth Says:

    [...] social enterprises are doing things like creating channels for developing country handicrafts, or PlayPumps distributing low-power-consumption technologies for poor countries. Bill Drayton, founder of [...]






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