We are living a story of change. Around the world, there is a movement of ordinary people making a difference every day.
Solutions exist everywhere to create a world where sustainability and profits are compatible; inclusive democracy is restored; citizens from all over the world have access to education, healthcare, and appropriate food; men and women have the same rights; and climate change is controlled.
Every year on the same day, Sparknews gathers 50 leading newspapers from around the world to share and publish a special edition dedicated to 60 concrete and inspiring solutions to global issues, on subjects like education, energy, healthcare, agriculture, water, technology, and urbanism.
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Ensuring farmers don’t come a cropper
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 to around...
Wheelchair driving gets a fresh spin
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...
A concerted pitch to fulfil childhood dreams
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 Eastern...
Facing the future bravely – together
Sheroes Hangout, with its tasteful decor and lively graffiti, is tucked away between some nondescript eateries, across from a five-star luxury hotel. In Agra, famous as the city of the Taj Mahal, the cafe is on the map for a unique reason: It is run by women who have...
Down but not out when disasters hit
Sisters Morgan and Caitria O'Neill never expected that a tornado would hit their small home town in Massachusetts - or that when it did, recovering from the disaster would change their lives. On June 1, 2011, a pair of twisters ripped across the state, damaging their...
Much to Beam about
Thirteen-year-old Yusuf Warsame shows up for school in Frederiksburg, Denmark, every day, takes part in class and gets up to pranks like any of his classmates - but he is not actually there. At home, about 3km away, Yusuf accesses and controls a robot called Beam -...
Helping kids broaden their horizon
This is school at its best. Every Saturday, some 300 10- and 11-year-olds from disadvantaged neighbourhoods around Brussels get a taste of what the future could look like, through activities organised by Tada, or Toekomst -F Atelier de l'Avenir (Studio of the future)....
Start-up space? Greece is the word
There have been few rays of hope to cling to during Greece's long crisis. One of them has been the steady emergence of the Greek start-up eco-system. Since four European Union-backed venture capital funds started operating in early 2013, there have been notable...
Projected to raise funding
The meteoric rise in crowdfunding projects, which allow an entrepreneur to raise funds from the donations of private individuals, has taken many countries by storm. Two young Moroccans finishing their Master's Degrees in Finance have set up their own such project,...