Turning rural women into entrepreneurs
Ten years ago, an Ashden Award played an important role in strengthening the credibility of Frontier Markets as it began to scale in India. “Since then, Frontier Markets has…
Outdoor roof garden for critical care patients
Critical care patients can enjoy the sunshine and fresh air on the top of King’s College Hospital in London, thanks to the first outdoor Critical Care garden created in…
What migration can create
This wonderful story, from the International Organization for Migration, was originally published July 1, 2026, under the headline “How Bosnia and Herzegovina’s National Football Team Became a Symbol of…
The banker saving an ancient rainforest
After moving to Australia’s Northern Rivers region with his wife Rowena three decades ago, retired banker Tony Parkes was blown away when someone took him into a remnant of…
Texas inspires Iowa’s Joppa Village
The Community First Village in Austin, Texas, which launched a blueprint for tiny home solutions, is inspiring folks elsewhere in the USA, including Des Moines, Iowa. Joppa Village is an official replicator of Community First!…
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An orchard fights climate change
An orchard is both a climate change solution and a peacebuilding project in a teaching hospital in northeastern Nigeria, which has experienced both extreme heat and entrenched conflict, Borno has long grappled with a deeply…
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When a problem becomes an opportunity….
When billionaire Elon Musk gleefully put USAID in the woodchipper, Village Health Works in Burundi was down to its last 20 packets of Ready-to-Use-Therapeutic-Food, a peanut butter-based porridge used to treat malnourished babies and children.…
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Bringing an English river back to life
Ancient maps and modern technology have brought Northumberland’s River Breamish back to life and reconnected it to its flood plains, after several hundred years of being restrained into a straight line for agricultural purposes and…
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Hopebuilding 