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The Next Web (TNW), a tech news website and annual series of conferences focused on new technology and start-up companies writes about our project.

We finally managed it - we moved into our new office! Now we are located in a little town in Germany: Annweiler-Gräfenhausen.

TASS is the largest Russian news agency and one of the largest news agencies worldwide, along with Reuters, the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP). They published an article about us as part of their Plus One project. +1 (Plus One) is a communication project that talks about leadership practices in the field of social and environmental responsibility.

Our project in Tanzania is developing very nicely. Our local partner New Dawn Development is proceeding with the distribution of 500 MP3forLife Players to almost 4000 rural women. We are receiving very positive feedback from women and government officials.

The Millennium Development Goal 5 of reducing maternal mortality worldwide by 75 % between 1990 and 2015, unfortunately, could not be reached. Although progress has been made, in 2015 about 303.000 women worldwide died from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth. This means 830 women died every day.

From September 3rd to September 9th, 2016, we visited Dar es Salaam to launch our Audiopedia pilot project in Tanzania. Our partner organization New Dawn Development - managed by Ms. Jackline Mashauri - had prepared a kick-off event on September 4th to introduce the project to all local stakeholders. 

We are currently in Marrakech, Morocco, preparing the Audiopedia project for Berber women of the Atlas mountains together with our local partner Association El Amane pour le Développement de la Femme.