by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
For six years, a married homeless couple were separated and forced to live apart in Delhi, India. The husband was in one gender-segregated communal shelter and the wife in another. Last year, for the first time, they were able to move into their own “home”. Their new...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, What Inspires You?
White smoke billows from the kitchen of a tofu maker named Tumirah in Kalisari village in Central Java. Soya bean stew boils in a large stove that the locals call a kawah. In one day, Ms Tumirah can process 80kg of soya beans to make tofu; this also produces 600...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Doing good comes with great rewards. This is the philosophy that keeps Cropital – a crowdfunding platform put up by a group of Filipino millennials to help local farmers – running. Since its launch in November 2015, Cropital has provided financial support...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
When Mr Ladislav Brazdil bought an old collective farm with a partner after the Czech revolution, what he really wanted was to engineer and market his own product. His dream became reality when a design engineer asked him about an idea he had in mind: an urban...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
After nearly three decades in which it stayed shut because of the Taleban’s ban on music, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (Anim) re-opened in 2010, keen to rekindle a musical teaching tradition. Now, it teaches courses in both classical Western and...
