IAT's Blog General Welcome
From those of us at the Institute for Affordable Transportation, we’d like to welcome you to our first blog. It is going to be a great opportunity to share the stories that are happening every day at the offices & factory. The BUV is transforming lives here, and around the globe – and we believe it will keep happening. One vehicle at a time.
Thank you for stopping by. We’re looking forward to sharing this journey with you.
Blessings,
Katelyn
(The IAT’s summer communications intern)
Social Edge - The ultimate Social Entrepreneur bloggers community
Africa Can - One of the more popular blogs sponsored by the World Bank
Missionary Blog Watch - Site dedicated to tracking the blogs of Christian missionaries
Africa's Moment - Magogodi Makhene helps create Africa's missing middle-class through business innovation.
Alyson in Africa - Princeton in Africa Fellow Alyson Zureick blogs on her year in Sierra Leone and the numerous grassroots initiatives for social change.
Engage In Uganda -Seventeen students from Northwestern University are spending the summer in Uganda to implement projects in microfinance and youth leadership.
From Tribeca To Tanzania Keely Stevenson wrote about her work with Acumen Fund in Tanzania, working on distribution of mosquito nets.Unitus Microfinance Case Studies Unitus presents a series of case studies explaining how leading microfinance experts have tackled some of the most difficult social and economic problems in the developing world.
Skoll Foundation Blog - Skoll Foundation supports a number of social entrepreneurs
Transaid - non-profit focused on transport management for “not for profit” fleets of vehicles in developing countries
IFRTD - forum works to improve policies and practices in transport operations, infrastructure, access and service for poor communities in developing countries.
Riders For Health - non-profit transport management group that deliver healthcare via motorcycles
Practical Action non-profit that works with poor communities in developing countries to develop appropriate technologies
World Bank's Transport Strategy - Business strategy for 2008-2012
Global Knowledge Partnership - partnership of global organizations, local policy-makers, experts and interested users sharing rural transport knowledge.
Int'l Bicycle Fund - Africa Bicycle & Sustainable Transport Advocacy Organizations
Transportation & Development Policy - Promotes environmentally sustainable and socially equitable transportation worldwide.
US Agency for Int'l Development
UN Econ and Social Commission - Latest news in the Transport Division of the UN
