http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1625 Comments for "Mango Tree Educational Enterprises" en http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1625 <div class="flexinode-body flexinode-6"><table class="actable" width="470px" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" border="0"> <tr><td class="actable-left" width="175px" valign="top"> <div class="flexinode-textfield-23"> <strong>Managing Organization: </strong> Mango Tree Educational Enterprises<br /><br /> </div> <div class="flexinode-image-32"><br /> <img alt="Mango Tree Educational Enterprises" src="http://www.nextbillion.net/files/mango_changemakers.jpg" /><br /><br /> </div> <div class="flexinode-textfield-38"> <strong>Activity URL: </strong> <dd><a href="http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300508/displayfec.cfm" TARGET="_blank">http://www.changemakers.net/journal/300508/displayfec.cfm</a></dd><br /><br /> </div> <td width="295px" valign="top" align="left"> <div class="flexinode-textarea-22"> <strong>Activity Description: </strong> Founded in January 2000, Mango Tree manufactures innovative educational tools for schools and health centers and provides training in how to use them effectively. Products include educational games and toys, pictorial charts, counseling tools for health care workers, and large format story charts used to ignite discussion on subjects such as gender, communication, and HIV/AIDS. Many of these educational tools are made from locally available materials like grain sacks, bottle tops, recycled slippers (flip-flops), bicycle spokes, gourds, and plastic jerry cans. This makes them easy to replicate by low income educators, and they impact low-income individuals (75% of clients are below the poverty line of $2/day) by improving the quality of educational services they receive. <br class="clear" /></div> </td> </tr> </table> </div><p><a href="http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1625">read more</a></p> http://www.nextbillion.net/activitycapsule/1625#comment Education Activity Environmental Activity Active Consumer For-profit Activity Private Investment Funded Uganda Sub-Saharan Africa Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:58:29 -0500 _Alex Bloom 1625 at http://www.nextbillion.net