by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Wasting food is far from being a negligible problem, both in Brazil and worldwide. According to United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization, global food loss and waste amounts to about one-third of all food produced. Brazil is among the top ten food-wasting...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Kutumbita is a tech start-up that aims to empower workers in the garment industry through an application designed to foster clear and equitable communication between employer and employee in firms which are too large for traditional communication channels. Using...
by Abriel | Jun 24, 2017 | 2017, Impact Journalism Day
Mr Michihiko Iwamoto worked for a textile trading house that produced work clothes with threads made from PET bottles. This gave him the idea that one could “circulate everything” by returning all used items to their original state and putting them into...
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...
