Low Birth Weight Blankets

06/02/2009

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.
Shirley Chisholm

Twenty million low birth weight babies are born in the developing world every year. Many of them die, often from hypothermia. The Western solution — an incubator, which costs around $20,000 and requires a reliable source of electricity — is not feasible for rural hospitals. Now UTNE (May 2009) reports that Stanford University students have invented a tiny sleeping bag-like carrier that keeps babies warm in rural Nepal with no electricity or batteries required. It contains a removable pouch of phase-change material, which retains its temperature for four hours and is easy to reheat with hot water. And, the blankets are designed with materials that are washable as well as repairable at home.

From My Side: Being A Child

This beautiful hardcover book celebrates the authors', Sylvia Chard and Yvonne Kogan, lifelong travels to countries throughout the world. Over 200 full-color photographs illustrate how children learn from their environment when they are engaged in everyday life activities. From My Side: Being A Child is ideal for home and school, educators, and parents.

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