Adele Waugaman
Adele Waugaman is communications director for the United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation Technology Partnership, a public-private partnership using strategic technology programmes to strengthen humanitarian work worldwide. She has also worked for Human Rights Watch and the NGO Coalition for the International Criminal Court.
How a "solar suitcase" is saving women's lives in Nigeria
When obstetrician Laura Stachel arrived in rural Nigeria to collect data about maternal care, she was shocked to discover that women were dying in childbirth because clinics had no reliable power supply. After taking a course on solar electricity, she created what she calls the "solar suitcase" - which is now proving a life-saver in one of the hospitals she visited. ...
