Practical Action

A charity which specialises in helping people to use technology for practical answers to poverty. It works in four continents to promote sustainable technology with local communities. This is technology which draws on people’s experience, and feeds it; which recognises their potential, and releases it; which respects their environment, and nurtures it; and which builds on their past, to sustain the future. Its subsidiary Practical Action Publishing, produces books and journals on appropriate technology for development.