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Funded Projects
Making every dollar count, with Orphfund's Steve Argent
May 23,2012
 This week, we chat to Steve Argent, Founder of volunteer aid organisation OrphFund, about his latest project in Africa and how Sustainable Table's financial support will go towards improving the sustainability of the project, long in to the future...
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Funded Projects
Sanitation and Farming. How the two are connected, and why you should make a run for it.
March 21,2012
 What problems arise from poor sanitation, and conventional farming practices, and how can fixing one problem be the solution to the other?
Every day, 4,900 children die from sanitation related diseases. That is one child every 20 seconds. At the same time, conventional farming practices involving the use of petroleum-based chemicals degrade soil quality and accelerate global warming. They may seem like unrelated issues, but a unique development project in Africa is showing how making changes to improve sanitation also helps farmers move away from deleterious farming practices...
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Funded Projects
What's sh*t got to do, got to do with it?
February 09,2012
 This is fact – everyday, squillions of litres of organic fertiliser is flushed down the drain. The toilet drain, that is. Because (believe it or not) human excrement can make for brilliant soil and plant food. It’s politely called night soil, or sanitised human manure, and it’s changing the way communities in Africa are farming and living...
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Funded Projects
Helping women, children and the environment in rural China - Our Solar Cooker Project
December 04,2011
 The team at Sustainable Table is excited to report that yet another of our overseas projects has just been successfully completed. Through our project partner the Pentok Institute, we’ve provided over 700 solar cookers to Tibetan people across three villages and two monasteries in Qinghai ProvenceWestern China. The solar cookers have benefited almost 3,500 Tibetans...
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By MariaH on
5/24/2012
This week, we chat to Steve Argent, Founder of volunteer aid organisation OrphFund, about his latest project in Africa and how Sustainable Table's financial support will go towards improving the sustainability of the project, long in to the future...
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By MariaH on
3/22/2012
What problems arise from poor sanitation, and conventional farming practices, and how can fixing one problem be the solution to the other? Every day, 4,900 children die from sanitation related diseases. That is one child every 20 seconds. At the same time, conventional farming practices involving the use of petroleum-based chemicals degrade soil quality and accelerate global warming. They may seem like unrelated issues, but a unique development project in Africa is showing how making changes to improve sanitation also helps farmers move away from deleterious farming practices...
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By MariaH on
2/10/2012
This is fact – everyday, squillions of litres of organic fertiliser is flushed down the drain. The toilet drain, that is. Because (believe it or not) human excrement can make for brilliant soil and plant food. It’s politely called night soil, or sanitised human manure, and it’s changing the way communities in Africa are farming and living... Read More »
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By MariaH on
12/5/2011
The team at Sustainable Table is excited to report that yet another of our overseas projects has just been successfully completed. Through our project partner the Pentok Institute, we’ve provided over 700 solar cookers to Tibetan people across three villages and two monasteries in Qinghai ProvenceWestern China. The solar cookers have benefited almost 3,500 Tibetans...
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