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** __AFRICA:__ **
The Bamboo Treadle Pump is a socially responsible product design as it gives farmers the ability to access groundwater during the dry season (Cooper-Hewitt). This design is effective and can help numerous countries with their water scarcity issues. Furthermore, treadle pumps also pose as a possible solution to worldwide water shortages in the future. **One Laptop per Child** One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is another socially responsible product as it is designed to educate children in developing countries by helping them learn and communicate through cutting-edge technologies (Cooper-Hewitt). This ultimately helps bridge the global digital divide as more and more individuals in developing countries are becoming exposed to new and up-to-date technology. **Solar Home Lighting System** The Solar Home Lighting System is environmentally friendly because it steers rural families away from burning candles and kerosene and oil lamps, which are expensive, low quality, and dangerous to use in a household (Cooper-Hewitt). The Solar Home Lighting System is wireless and the panels are charged on the roofs of houses. **Sugarcane Charcoal** Sugarcane charcoal is a socially responsible product design as it helps reduce deforestation and environmental degradation. This design is an alternative to wood charcoal, which is the primary source of cooking fuel. Sugarcane charcoal is created from dried bagasse, which gets burned, carbonized, mixed, and compacted to produce charcoal briquettes (Cooper-Hewitt). **Lifestraw** Lifestraw is an effective solution for fighting waterborne diseases such as typhoid, cholera, dysentery, and diarrhea. This water purification tool turns any surface water into safe drinking water (Cooper-Hewitt). As a result, this product is socially responsible as it is able to prevent individuals in developing countries from sickness against unsafe drinking water.
 * The Bamboo Treadle Pump**

**Works Cited:**
Cooper-Hewitt. "Design for the Other 90%." Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. 26 Jan 2009. 