Science and Empathy Drive Inventiveness in Kampala

A technology-for-development institute at Kampala's Makerere University shows what can be done to create practical, low-cost solutions to significant problems for everyday people. Funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the The Makerere Institute of Social Research worked to improve girl child education in rural Uganda through innovation in the provision of sanitary materials  

Pupils take measurements of a cotton cloth to be used to make sanitary pads in Uganda.

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