Recent Posts Tagged With 'child labor'

• Turning ‘child labor’ into productive fun.

  Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 02:41 in africa, electricity, In the News, child labor, playground, see-saw, daniel sheridan, hippo water roller, playpump international

  Back in February, I wrote about PlayPumps International, a water pump built like a playground toy so that while kids play they are pumping fresh water for their villages. Well, I just found two more kids’ toys engineered for productive (and fun...

• Water pump + playtime = Girls’ education in Africa.

  Posted on Monday February 11th, 2008 at 01:58 in africa, charity, donations, In the News, child labor, water crisis, playpumps

  This is pretty clever: A non profit called PlayPumps International has developed an easy to build and maintain water pump system utilizing child labor in order to pump fresh water from the ground into a storage container… No, no, we’re no...