Showing posts with label humanitarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label humanitarian. Show all posts

Monday, August 7, 2017

On fighting iron deficiency

I came across this inspiring article about a week ago and wanted to share it with you.  A young Canadian volunteer in an African refugee camp pondered long term solutions to the world's problems, being deeply affected by the suffering he experienced there.  He started his company  'Lucky Iron Fish' 5 years ago.  He developed a cast iron fish boiled in water for 10 minutes a day to give users a low dose of iron.  It is good for 5 years.  Now 29 years old, he has won humanitarian and social entrepreneur awards.  Iron deficiency affects 2 billion people, a third of the world.

We are on the Civic holiday long weekend, many people have today,  Monday off.