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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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