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28 Sep 2026
Five post offices in Assam, India, have screened nearly 9,000 people and handed out free reading glasses, most of them to first-time wearers. Why the post office works as a clinic, what a trial in Assam's tea gardens found, and what the pilot has not shown yet.
25 Sep 2026
On 23 September 2026 the HALO Trust closed its Kosovo programme after 27 years. Of 585 mine and bomb casualties since 1999, 438 came in the first two years. The clearance that mattered opened an airport, a motorway and mountain trails, and about 6.67 km² of cluster contamination is still Kosovo's to clear.
23 Sep 2026
2,117 corrals in northern Tanzania are fences grown into living trees, and a controlled comparison credits them with stopping 99.9 percent of night attacks. In Kenya, the best predictor of whether a fortified boma got repaired turned out to be the distance to the next one.
23 Sep 2026
More than 450 family health houses put a midwife within walking distance for 82 percent of the women around them. The 1994 paper everyone quotes by its title says distance was only one delay of three.
21 Sep 2026
A yacht club in Galicia has taught adapted sailing free of charge since 2012, at about €150,000 a year. The hardware problem was solved long ago; the sport has still been refused the Paralympics three times.
20 Sep 2026
A decree banned shark fishing across Colombia in 2021 and changed almost nothing on the Wayuu coast. A project that hands fishers a notebook changed seventeen boats out of twenty.
How deep can your mind go? From cinematic mysticism to real neuroplasticity.
Combining neuroscience and mindfulness into a single working system.
The real story of shelter volunteering — the parts that are harder than expected, the parts that are more meaningful than you can imagine, and why fostering is the highest-impact role most people overlook.
Read →Around 1.5 billion people are learning English worldwide. Volunteer English teaching is one of the most accessible forms of international volunteering — but the requirements, expectations, and impact vary enormously.
Read →How deep can your mind go? From cinematic mysticism to real neuroplasticity.
Read →Combining neuroscience and mindfulness into a single working system.
Read →Orch-OR, the contested idea of Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose: consciousness as quantum processes in microtubules inside neurons.
Read →What if our reality is a neural simulation?
Read →Archetypes and the Shadow through the eyes of modern science.
Read →Why micro-actions matter more than grand plans.
Read →Virtual volunteering has exploded since 2020. From crisis counseling to code review for NGOs, the range of remote volunteer roles is now vast — and many of the most impactful ones require no special credentials.
Read →Corporate volunteering programs are cited in employee engagement surveys as among the most valued non-financial benefits. Here is what the research shows and what separates programs employees actually use from ones that collect dust.
Read →Most people search for volunteer opportunities the wrong way — starting with what's available instead of what fits. A smarter approach takes 20 minutes and produces matches you'll actually stick with.
Read →International volunteering has matured significantly. The era of expensive short-term voluntourism is giving way to skills-based, community-led programs. Here is what the research and practitioner community actually recommends.
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