UNICEF Ethiopia currently needs more than $8 million to fund life-saving schemes across the Oromiya and Somali regions, from paying for more emergency water tankers, repairing broken down pumps to providing new boreholes and immunizing 1.5 million children against measles.
When you trade in your phone, if the device is in good order, Apple says it gets resold as used or reconditioned; if it's not in good repair it gets broken down for recycling responsibly.
They're doing it by creating products that can be easily broken down, repaired, or recycled and they're starting with a simple pair of shoes.
Aly and Beth Khalifa have a vision: to "establish the new cutting edge of sustainability". They're doing it by creating products that can be easily broken down, repaired, or recycled and they're starting with a simple pair of shoes.
This is typical behavior for an organization in a very difficult situation, where the old strategy has broken down beyond repair, but where no new strategy has yet emerged.
In a book entitled The Mind's I, by Douglas Hofstadter, philosopher Daniel C. Dennett posed the following problem: Suppose you are an astronaut stranded on Mars whose spaceship had broken down beyond repair.
The study confirms the protein's role in DNA repair and should help elucidate how DNA repair can break down and lead to cancer.
Of six haemodialysis machines which have broken down, "we could repair six for the cost of buying one new machine", he said.
Rapid repair is breaking down the PS3 Slim as we speak.
Five months after a water tank at Ojom Health centre II was repaired, workers say the facility has broken down again, adding to the rainwater storage problems in Katine, north-eastern Uganda, reported on this website last week.
"Communication had broken down, and it had gotten repaired, and then it broke down again," he said.
