France, circular economy helping the most needy

Cristina Barbetta

The Agence du Don en Nature (Adn) collects new non-food unsold products from enterprises and it redistributes them to the most needy thanks to a network of more than 750 local associations in France. Every year the Adn contributes to help 850.000 people in need and redistributes every week more than 600.000 euros of new products

Here are the toughest places in the world for a girl to get an education

Staff

A new report by The One Campaign reveals the ten toughest countries and highlights some of the many unique barriers girls face

Money from the ECB invested into gambling, oil and weapons

Marco Dotti

Everybody talks about it. But what is Quantitative Easing? And where does the money go? Corporate Europe Observatory has made a list of the beneficiaries of the European Central Bank’s corporate bond purchasing scheme. The results are disturbing, unless you think that oil, fancy cars, motorways, champagne, and gambling are a good place to put public money...

Change Please, when the homeless become baristas

Cristina Barbetta

The entrepreneur Cemal Ezel and The Big Issue, the world's most widely circulated street newspaper sold by homeless people, have launched a social enterprise helping the homeless, training them as baristas.

Porto, youth and seniors together to build change

Cristina Barbetta

It’s called Aconchego and it’s the intergenerational programme of the city of Porto: elderly people who suffer from loneliness and isolation provide housing in their homes to university students, who need accommodation at low prices. The model has been replicated in Lisbon and Coimbra

Nikosia. Free radio, free minds

Cristina Barbetta

It’s called Nikosia and it’s the first radio in Spain produced by people suffering from mental problems. The aim? FIght against the stigma surrounding psychiatric problems. Radio Nikosia is supported by many personalities. Among them singer and activist Manu Chao.

The ship Aquarius rescues 371 people in a day: here’s how it went

Daniele Biella

The story of Daniele Biella, journalist of Vita, of the last days on board of the ship Aquarius of the Ngo Sos Méditerranée

Social Enterprise World Forum arrives in New Zealand

Staff

Since its 2008 debut in Scotland, it has been a mainstay for the global sector. The Social Enterprise World Forum is the annual international event for social enterprises from all over the world to come together, share wisdom, build networks and discuss how to create a more sustainable future

A forest is planted in Zambia thanks to internet users’ gifts

Staff

It is an initiative of the startup Anona, specialist of the “free gift” on the internet, that has launched a campaign to finance the planting of a forest in Zambia. In only one day the amount to plant 6400 trees has been collected.

Farmerline, the app helping African farmers

Cristina Barbetta

Farmerline is a start up founded in Ghana in 2013 by computer scientist Alloysius Attah. It sends voice messages to over 200,000 farmers in 10 different countries.