Quite literally raising the bar on anti-knife crime campaigns, Steel Warriors are using surrendered blades in the best possible way. ...
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In the small Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco in Brazil, an arts-as-transformation project is addressing the survival and transformation of...
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“Use whatever god-given talent that you’ve got and just do something.” Magid Magid, a Somali-British race and climate justice...
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Run by refugees, Talking Hands is the Italian design & fashion studio where art and storytelling create employment opportunities, tear...
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At the opposite end of poverty tourism you can find Unseen Tours, a social enterprise that supports vulnerably housed individuals...
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Feeling weird about being served by robot staff? What if your humanoid waiter was creating employment opportunities for flesh-and-bone workers...
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“Our city is a place we built with our own hands to live in peace.” In Turbaco, a 20-minute...
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AbleGamers empowers people with disabilities to access video games and fight social isolation. Hate lockdown? Spent the better part...
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The Homeless World Cup harnesses the power of football to put an end to homelessness worldwide. “Football has been...
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What if you could join a global governance body built on fairness and empathy and informed by scientists and Indigenous...
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“It’s not about the process creating a whole bunch of prototypes, it’s about the process actually being a vehicle to...
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Can you imagine a world where affordable housing would be defined according to average income, not market forces? Where neighbourhoods...
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Barcelona’s street vendors launched a fashion brand that’s all about “doing things right.” Six years ago, Barcelona’s street sellers...
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Tough Turban offers a solution to close the gap between religious freedom and safety for Canadian Sikh riders. In...
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Bogotá has a new phone number for men who want to hang up on machismo and prevent domestic violence. ...
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The Feira Preta and PretaHub initiatives are turning identity into power and highlighting Brazil’s Black talent to make business a...
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“We’re the street plants that’ll resist even when you suffocate them with concrete.” There’s a neighbourhood in Colombia that uses...
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In Catalonia, thousands of people are committed to nature tracking. Their data collected over the years has enabled analysis of...
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The line dividing humans and other animals is often exaggerated. Meet the lawyers trying to redraw it. “I became...
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Europe’s densest neighbourhood, die-hard champion of authenticity and diversity, is starting to tell its own story in its first co-created...
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Occupy space, occupy history: can you hear the land you’re walking on? In Fitzroy, a historical inner suburb of Melbourne,...
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“What if we welcomed all animals, plants and things into our Parliament? What would the argument of the cod, algae...
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“We have this big vision that we would like every child to own a hundred books by the age of...
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The Amsterdam based Black Archives boasts an inspiring mixture of educational resources, cultural projects, and political organisation, highlighting the diversity...
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The Source farms in harmony with the land, its flora and fauna, and its local community. In the Saint...
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Agriledger is turning the supply chain upside down. Now, smallholder mango farmers in Haiti can sell their produce directly in...
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Fashion has always set out to be bold and original. But real creativity comes from new, different, underrepresented voices. ...
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A social enterprise in India is bringing much needed play into children’s lives with low-cost playscapes made from scrap tyres...
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The 'Clothing Man' has transformed the culture of giving – and receiving – in India with his treatment of clothing and...
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A youth network in the Mediterranean is flowing with ideas of how to solve the world’s water challenges. They’re the...
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Instead of casting their eyes to the starry night sky, this Observatory is looking at one of earth’s most precious...
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By now you will know of Extinction Rebellion, the global movement changing climate action. So what's next? "Troublemakers change...
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Together we can fix our broken politics. Sortition Foundation want to create a real democracy of the people, by the people, and for the...
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Testing is not a motivator. But immersing yourself in a paper on civil movements, a climate change project or a...
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As Wales entered its first lockdown, Mymuna Soleman set up a virtual space for difficult conversations. She just never expected...
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Can words posted to social media suggest where a genocide might happen? This rumour police in Kenya fights misinformation with...
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On the banks of the Sabarmati River in Ahmedabad in western India, a small school is making a big noise...
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New Roads School in California's Santa Monica is an independent school that gives away almost half of its income in the...
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When Morocco went into lock-down during the Covid19 crisis, the first thing that Amal Center did was set up a...
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“Without a healthy ocean, life as we know it would not exist.” For Farah Obaidullah of Women4Oceans, gender equality and...
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“There's an Eskimo on a mass of ice, a Bedouin in the desert and a Polynesian at sea. All three of...
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“Muhra in Arabic means 'foal', but also new beginnings. It represents what we do here." In a discreet five-story building...
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Do you know who made your clothes; who grew the cotton, spun the threads, dyed the fabric and sewed them...
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“No matter what we look like, where we live, or how much money we have, getting sick reminds us that...
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Dino Impagliazzo dices onions like a master chef and makes a mean vegetable soup – but most of his loyal...
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Have you heard of ‘shredder workouts’? They’re fast and furious exercises that shred the fat off your body. And they’re...
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Sex. It never gets old. Why, then, is the idea of older people having it so hard to think about?...
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Everyone needs to feel valued and needed. That’s why psychologist Dr Derenda Schubert created a powerful intergenerational mini-village in Portland, Oregon,...
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that irate grandmas are not to be messed with. Watch out, then, for the...
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Dutch investigative journalist Teun van de Keuken was shocked when he discovered that much of the world’s chocolate production has...
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The aptly-named Songs & Smiles brings music, fun and friendship to children aged 0-4, their grown-ups, and older adults in...
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Want to see what London's Abbey Road looked like in 1969, explore LGBT+ life in the sixties or map the...
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A unique media project in Valparaíso, Chile, is challenging stereotypes in an often ageist world of social media, podcasts, blogs and...
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Which came first: the chicken or this eggscellent idea? Ok, that was rhetorical. It's the chicken, obviously. Now for a real question:...
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Florence is a 95 year old partially sighted widow who used to be a keen tennis player. The RAF veteran was...
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Colombia’s diverse geography – from towering Andean mountain ranges, to vast flooding wetlands and thick Amazonian jungle – has made...
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Thought by some to be the original Garden of Eden, Iraq’s marshlands were the birthplace of agriculture. After the 1991 Gulf War,...
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Every night across the world’s former murder capital, young boys and girls study the four elements of hip-hop to transform...
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“I spend the bulk of my waking life thinking about the news industry and audience engagement. And there’s a particularly...
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Something important is happening in Cleveland: one of America’s poorest cities has a radical plan to remake itself. Anyone who...
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"We craft furniture that benefits people and planet; gifts that do good." The problem of waste is a global one...
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“The forest is like a mother. She gives us everything we need to live comfortably." Timbaktu Collective is empowering villagers...
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In Democratic Republic of the Congo, poor educational access and poor quality education is linked with the historic instability the...
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Inspired by his own story, Stephen Addison created BoxUp Crime to change young people’s lives through the power of boxing....
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The Incredible Edible Network started out in the small market town of Tomorden in the North of England. It was...
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“We vote not only for ourselves, but for 'all sons and daughters' and every layer and intersection of identity. We...
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“Gastronomical culture and food heritage is very important. We have a responsibility to acknowledge Bolivian products and work with them...
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Described as “The Glastonbury of business“ (minus the wellington boots, silent disco and huge clean-up operation), Meaning is an edgy...
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"Do you have any family or friends that you’d like to record a message for?" A walk along Market Street in San...
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Back in 2011 in Rwanda, 16 years after the genocide against the Tutsi sent shock waves across the world, creative...
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A photographer called Jose Martínez took the picture below. He calls it ‘End of discrimination’. Jose is one of the...
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Drawing from their backgrounds in fashion, advertising, the entertainment industries and social organizations (or NGOs), in 2011 four dynamic Paraguayan entrepreneurs cooked up Koga,...
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Priya is a ‘rape survivor superhero’. Together these three words are shattering taboos in India, thanks to the powerful comic...
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Girl bikers, transgender activists, divorcee entrepreneurs and female cricket journalists; this digital platform shows you a different side of Pakistan....
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Our W.I.S.H : Wisdom through Well-being, Inspiring confidence and a creative mind set for the next generation, Shaping the future in...
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Who would have thought at the start of 2017 that Bitcoin would increase 20-fold? Since it became the first decentralised digital currency released...
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Eco-warrior and outspoken founder of the world’s first green energy company, Ecotricity, Dale Vince is on a mission to green up...
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Happiful is a monthly UK magazine that aims to create a healthier, happier and more sustainable society. Their first mission is...
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Part of a growing movement thinking differently about how to support people living in conflict areas, Refugee Open Ware (ROW3D) works...
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Using the Internet and Raspberry Pis, rather than prayer and scripture, with software replacing rules and doctrine, the unMonastery collective borrows from...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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Sencity is a training programme run by the Skyway Foundation in which young deaf and hard-of-hearing people organise sense-stimulating music events...
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Hamburg is home to one of the world’s largest container ports. Also known as Germany's ‘Gateway to the World’, the...
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The popular 1990s' computer game SimCity gave people the freedom to design and build their own metropolis. Today the ‘make your...
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In the Southern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Chirezi Foundation is helping to bring about peaceful solutions to...
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Almost every city in the developed world now has a housing market crisis. Homes are increasingly unaffordable, unsustainable and unhealthy....
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More than 100 trillion bacteria live in and around our bodies, with some ‘good guys’ and others 'bad', yet researchers...
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In October 2015 four disabled British children had a remarkable new experience – they were fitted with orthoses manufactured purely...
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Nigeria’s healthcare system is notoriously expensive, and an unexpected emergency can bankrupt a family. Partnering up with Hygeia, EFInA (an...
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Skateistan started in Afghanistan as a "crazy idea" to use skateboarding for empowerment. Now it's opening a fifth school, so more...
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The debate on how to cope with immigration is heated and complex. Based in Germany, a country which takes more refugees than...
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Back in June 2011, civil unrest proved its ability to act as a catalyst for political change and amid bloody...
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Most societies still attach some form of stigma to periods. Though female education has long been recognised as a fundamental...
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Most major voting systems are unevenly weighted, prone to manipulation by and via the media, established parties and corporations, and...
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In 2006, a local pharmacist in Cairo noticed two things – that low-income families couldn’t afford medicine, and that there...
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Every day, millions of photographs of the same landmarks are captured and posted on social media. As our glaciers are...
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Launched in September 2014, the aim of Programá tu Futuro (Programme Your Future) is to enable schoolchildren over the age...
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São Paulo’s women say enough and team up to map catcalling. Chega de Fiu Fiu, which translates into English...
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Every day, women across the world are insulted, ignored or assaulted simply because of their gender. In 2012 award-winning journalist...
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Head to Zooniverse and you’ll find ordinary people helping scientists to identify galaxies, explore historical records, or in the case...
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The Pope is my new hero – my socially progressive, secularist, humanist new hero. How can you not love a man...
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