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Mar 5

‘Free money’ can be a leg up

As one city’s experiment shows, rather than being a handou, t‘free money’ can be a leg up with real tangible results.

Jan 3

Ex-monk takes on Thai sex trafficking

Operating out of a Thai monastery, Hartanto Gunawan has spent the past 16 years providing girls with another option to selling their bodies.

Oct 29, 2020

Rural America is building its own broadband network

With the covid lockdown, reliable broadband internet has become a new necessity. Co-ops are stepping in where big telcos won’t.

Oct 17, 2020

Yemeni women go solar in a war zone

A women-run solar station near the Yemen's war frontline is empowering its owners and improving life in their community.

Aug 24, 2020

India's poorest revive an ancient grain

India’s marginalised Dalit community is reviving millet to help boost food security, adapt to a changing climate, and improve nutrition.

Aug 8, 2020

Bushfire-ravaged community deeply moved by PNG donation

When Andy Thorp heard his Rotary Club of Merimbula on the NSW south-coast was sent a donation from people in PNG he was shocked by how much.

Jun 29, 2020

Buying up homes for the people

MEDA is leading an anti-gentrification effort where local non-profits can buy residential buildings to prevent eviction and displacement.

May 15, 2020

Better off Americans donate their stimulus money

Americans in a stable financial position are donating part of their stimulus payments to help those badly affected by Covid-19.

Apr 23, 2020

Amid the lockdown, we are rising up

A small selection of ways people providing uplifting moments of joy in a world beset by anxiety and fear during the lockdown.

Apr 9, 2020

Sikhs to the rescue

Sydney’s Sikh community has spent more AU$4,000 setting up a food donation program to help Australia’s elderly stranded in self-isolation.

Mar 12, 2020

Getting back on the bike

Elderly people enjoy free bike rides out and about in their neighbourhoods.

Feb 10, 2020

Old hotel converted for homeless

In Denver, theColorado Coalition for the Homeless has bought and converted a former hotel into affordable housing.

Jan 19, 2020

Dino, 90, feeds Rome's homeless

Dino Impagilazzo, 90, is living out his dream of feeding the homeless.

Jan 17, 2020

A hand up not a handout

For the past year, residents of Stockton, a city of around 290,000 in California, have been granted a guaranteed income of US$500 a month.

Dec 30, 2019

Finland is housing the homeless

Finland has a unique and commendable claim to fame: it is the only country in the European Union where homelessness is falling.

Dec 4, 2019

The Robin Hood of Istanbul

A mystery benefactor is visiting Istanbul’s poor neighbourhoods to pay off people’s debts and drop cash-filled envelopes on doorsteps.

Dec 1, 2019

Life is a circus

Jim Webster, a tutor at a community circus, which holds activities for the elderly, insists age is no barrier to taking on fresh challanges.

Nov 1, 2019

Free snacks for hungry kids

For the past five years, Champale Anderson has distributed free snack bags to any child who knocks on her door.

Oct 16, 2019

Baddies do good

A high-speed boat chase off Spain ends in unexpected fashion: the crooks do a good deed.

Oct 2, 2019

The restaurant that's priceless

From the outside, the Alabama restaurant Drexell & Honeybee’s looks unremarkable. However, pick up a menu and you’ll notice: no prices.

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