The Chemists Without Borders (CWB)under its mission and vision – “using science to improve the quality of life in communities most in need through service, science education, innovation, and community empowerment by uniting scientists globally to advance humanitarian efforts” – arranged with Dow Chemical Company in Kentucky, USA and the Colombo University Faculty of Science …
In today’s world, access to clean water and quality education are fundamental humanitarian challenges. These challenges disproportionately affect rural populations. More than half of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)cannot be realized without eliminating water insecurity and enhancing education, especially in the sciences. Humanitarian organizations like Chemists Without Borders play a vital role …
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Dear Subscribers to, Members of and Volunteers for Chemists Without Borders Thank you for your interest in and work for Chemists Without Borders and our mission of solving humanitarian problems by mobilizing the resources and expertise of the global chemistry community and its networks. You are part of that network, and CWB appreciates your contributions. …
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Our mission is to solve humanitarian problems by mobilizing the resources and expertise of the global chemistry community and its networks. Read on to discover how a vaccine led to the creation of Chemists Without Borders and some of our work and challenges since that day. The world’s best typhoid vaccine that no one wanted …
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“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” Carl Sagan Science is of little value if ordinary people cannot understand it, cannot trust it, or cannot …
Hello, and welcome to the new Chemists Without Borders Website. Please take some time and look around. Chemists Without Borders is dedicated to harnessing the skills and experiences within and adjacent to the global community of chemists and chemical industries to solve humanitarian problems. These include issues related to climate change, clean water and proper …
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We may be living in the Information Age, but not all human settlements have been swept over by the wave of science and technology, yet. So why should every child, whether attending the most prestigious school in the country or a godforsaken one-room school in a village invisible to most maps with intangible prospects of …
1.7 million children die every year due to polluted environment: WHO Two World Health Organization (WHO) reports highlighted that children are exposed to harmful chemicals through food, water, air and products around them. Photo. Imagine what could be accomplished if a fraction of the 20 million of us in the global chemical enterprise (according to …
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University of Massachusetts has just published an excellent article on their project with Chemists Without Borders on a low cost process they are developing to measure the concentration of arsenic in rice. When the process is fully developed, it will be transferred to a lab at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh, and …
Dear Mr. President, With all due respect, I got the impression from this piece on tonight’s PBS NewsHour (just a few minutes of your time to watch, please) https://youtu.be/a3oL3WjLLA4?t=5m46s, that much more has been promised and could be done to support these refugees than we are currently doing. It was suggested that we are …
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