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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.
Bundle your kind acts into one day, the advice goes. It traces to one unpublished student study. A 2018 meta-analysis of 4,045 people says what holds up.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →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.
Read →Eighty bicycles went out across one Zimbabwean province, and more than 22,000 girls were vaccinated against cervical cancer. The barrier was never mainly doubt. It was twenty kilometres of dirt road — and the people who ride it may not be paid this month.
Read →The famous chart shows a 60-point consent gap. The same paper measured actual donations: 14.1 against 16.4 per million. Only one number travelled.
Read →On 3 September the WHO validated Timor-Leste as free of trachoma as a public health problem. Nobody was pulled from a burning car. The work was quieter than that, and far harder to photograph.
Read →Fundraising's most quoted rule says one named child beats a statistic. A preregistered replication with 1004 participants found no effect at all.
Read →When the White River flooded a north-side Indianapolis neighbourhood, official crews missed people. A resident with a canoe, a church and a hand-made volunteer list have been running the recovery ever since.
Read →An e-bike rider ended up pinned under a Beetle in a Pennsylvania borough. A sign maker, a home care worker, a FedEx driver and four others tipped the car off her before the ambulance arrived.
Read →A 23-year-old autistic man went to his first festival alone. Ten minutes in, five strangers borrowed his mallet and asked him to camp with them. He is now booked to play Boomtown 2027.
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