BBC World Challenge Winner 2009

World Challenge 09 is a global competition aimed at finding projects or small businesses from around the world that have shown enterprise and innovation at a grass roots level. World Challenge 09 is brought to you by BBC World News and Newsweek, in association with Shell, and is about championing and rewarding projects and business which really make a difference.

Burns caused by Hand Made Unsafe Kerosene Lamps are a common poblem in parts of Sri Lanka, where 1/3 of the population has no access to Electricity.

Safe Bottle Lamp Project in Comming!

One man’s mission to stop the horrific, and totally avoidable, injuries caused by unsafe kerosene lamps in Sri Lanka.

“If I win the World Challenge I can make and distribute 40,000 of these lamps, protecting over 80,000 people from these horrific burn injuries” Dr Wijaya Godakumbura, Safe Bottle Lamp Project

Despite an electrification programme, over 6 million people in Sri Lanka, nearly one third of the population, don’t have power. Many families rely on improvised lamps made from bottles to light their homes at night, but these can often spill and cause horrific injuries – figures suggest 300,000 people around the world die from accidental kerosene burns every year. Dr Wijaya Godakumbura, a surgeon who witnessed the terrible results of these accidents has designed a safe Lamp that can't roll over and cause a fire.To date, his small foundation has handed out about 775 thousand of the safe lamps.

Copenhague 2009

The Climate change is already having dramatic consequences. The first victims are and will in future Populations already the most Vulnerable and Poorest Countries: Humanitarian Crisis, Mass, Violations of Human Rights are likely to multiply in the near Future. Therefore, a Unique Coalition of Organizations of French international solidarity, protection of the environment and human rights appeals to French President, in light of the Copenhagen Summit.
On J-1, Denmark will host the next International Summit on UN Climate. The International Community must develop a Comprehensive Agreement that will follow the Kyoto Protocol. To Participate in the Challenge, Put your E-Mail, 1 Million Signatures are Needed!