Cooking for someone is quite possibly the oldest and most elemental expression of love, solidarity and caring. Community – or...
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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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Whether by sharing or by hiding their sexual orientation throughout their lives, LGBT older people often find themselves socially isolated...
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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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Currently only 30% of roles in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) are held by women. In...
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Download the app, lend your eyes to solve tasks big and small, and help blind and partially sighted people lead...
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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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People will always love books. While digital media has disrupted other industries, there really is nothing like a physical book...
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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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Rape threats, racist slurs and being followed home are just some of the things that women and girls are subjected...
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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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Juan Gimenez is a technician at Diputació de Barcelona (DiBa). Every day, he has to analyse websites to search for...
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CuEmE (Entrepreneurial Culture in the School) is a programme in Barcelona that links schools and local authorities so students can...
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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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Millennials may or may not save the world; only time will tell. But forget labelling Gen Y as saviours or slackers,...
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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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In long-running British soap opera Eastenders, the main square is home to what is known as the 'Bench of Tears',...
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Is it possible to bring divided communities together through food? Soil Association believes it is. And it’s bringing bunting, garden...
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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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The streets of Portugal are being turned into vibrant canvases as ‘wrinkle wall writers’ get to grips with spray cans;...
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"Why should we study for a future we don’t have?" On 20 August 2018, a 15-year-old girl walked out of...
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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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Crack open the sherry, gin and Pimms, because Frank Sinatra’s ‘My Way’ is on the sound system; Hetty has donned her...
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Songwriting grannies, robot sidekicks, savvy social media training, wild swimming, hip hop-picking and hen road shows; what does it mean...
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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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“I’m not trying to replace the system, but I think the system is missing an essential component, which is the...
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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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Today, smartphones are as fast as 120,000,000 Apollo 11 computers, which were capable of taking people to the moon. If we...
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Since the 1970s, development initiative Sekem has been revitalising the hot, arid sands of a once untouched part of the Egyptian desert, transforming...
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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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The excellently-named Fishyleaks has been created by the Our Fish campaign to end “rampant” overfishing and illegal, unreported fishing activity...
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"Pablo Picasso once said: 'Every child is an artist. But the problem is how to remain an artist once we...
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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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“We are trying to demonstrate that it is possible to build projects that combine sustainable economic activity with social inclusion...
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Owing to crime, the neighbourhood of Kalihi in downtown Honolulu, Hawaii, has a bad rap. That's where KVIBE (Kalihi Valley Instructional...
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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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"Because we might not have friends or family in abundance who already work in the creative industries, we're having to...
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“The peasant way of life is one of the most precious things we have on this planet to shine a...
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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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“Hip Hop Caucus represents the streets, it represents those who have a message to tell and who won’t be quiet,...
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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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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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There’s a growing unease about the use of behavioural advertising: technologies that track and learn about our online behaviour in...
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"It's just as important listening to these stories as it is fairy tales." Today there’s an increasing recognition of the...
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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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An experimental organic farmers’ market set up by a ‘culinary activist’ is breaking down religious and cultural barriers in the...
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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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One face forward, another facing back: you’re looking at Jirondai, the legendary shaman with two faces. He gives his name...
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An anonymous pirate radio DJ is sharing positive ideas, encouraging young East Africans to take action to improve their lives...
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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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A video shows a local football match kicking off in El Madania, Algeria; another takes us to Cotonou, Benin, to...
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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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Turning the silver screen green and providing a ray of light in South Africa (literally), Sunshine Cinema is not just an...
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As the world's population continues to grow, industry has begun to affect even the most remote of places. As well...
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Global sportswear giant Nike has unveiled a hijab designed for female Muslim athletes... and the press went wild. After sparking a flurry of...
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Are you a creator focused on social change? Or a hub of art-ivists whose work benefits your community? CultureFutures is...
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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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Do you know what an open source restaurant is? Located in Barcelona's Poblenou’s 22@ neighborhood, Leka is the first of its...
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“The goal of the economy should be to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet.” In...
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Documentary filmmaker Stalin K Padma is convinced that the lack of diversity in India’s mainstream media results in large swathes...
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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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Can wool change lives? It can in Buenos Aires, where members of the Villa 31 cooperative turn it into colourful...
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So, how do you get power to the people who need it most, to those who can’t afford it? ...
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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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Zaytoun helps to support Palestinian farmers through fair trade instead of aid, sourcing sustainably grown olive oil and other delicacies...
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Koullouna is a box of goodness made in Lebanon that supports the local ecosystem. Through a subscription, it aims to connect...
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At its simplest GoodGym is a community of runners that combines getting fit with doing good deeds, building better communities through...
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The Media Trust believes in the power to change lives through, as the name suggests... media. Whether working to help...
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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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When you buy local you are ensuring that your favourite shops, artisans and farmers can continue to do what they...
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Creative resistance Circuito Rolezinho is a new way of thinking about the reality of being young, black and alive in...
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In a part of the world that is modernising as quickly in some regions as others are being destroyed, it...
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Language is a tricky thing: vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and numerous irregularities and inconsistencies. If that’s not enough, regional differences and...
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Submitted by you: Actual News reimagines the way we find, consume, interact with, pay for and follow up on news...
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Submitted by you: Sending money home to families throughout Indonesia is fraught with issues – finding a physical location, fees, transaction...
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Submitted by you: The Estonians have a long history of trying new things in digital, and blockchain is no exception....
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Submitted by you: Based in Israel, Amos Meiri and the 30+ strong team at Colu are helping people to support...
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The Last Stand is a funny project. But at its heart is a great idea... healing London's divisions. The street...
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Submitted by: Skateistan Since 2002, Tony Hawk Foundation has been helping youth and their communities connect with their local leaders to...
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Iceland is progressive. It ranks first on the World Economic Forum’s global gender gap index, is the first to legalise abortion...
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We've had vultures with GoPro cameras strapped to their heads and pigeons with backpacks. Always ones to follow the crowd, now it's...
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If there’s one political topic that has dominated our collective social consciousness in the last decade, it’s terrorism. Terrorism and...
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Food has always had a special place in human history. From the multi-religious traditions of “breaking bread” with friends and...
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A UK publication is on a mission to convey that it’s ok for men to talk about sensitive things and...
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