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CULTURE & SOCIETY


How to launch 1.200 enterprises in a challenging economy

Zeina Saab and the model of the Nawaya Network

A quiet revolution in Malawi

Tiwale, or how to escape poverty through education

The first ballet school in Palestine

Meet Shyrine Ziadeh, founder of the empowerment-focused Ramallah Ballet Center

How can we solve the growing water crisis?

Philip Wilson and the EcoFiltro solution

Hip-hop, art and politics

Celso Athayde's uses them in order to inspire favela dwellers

How does a patient-centric health experience feels like?

The answer of the Berlin start up Pillio

The power of teenagers

How two sisters from Bali are getting plastic bags banned

Listening experiences for the whole body

How deaf artists can create works using sub-frequencies

Soccer balls and new jobs

The impact of Alive and Kicking in Africa

How to best navigate unfamiliar places

An Australian app has built the ideal route-guidance system

Artist and inventor and entrepreneur

Sophia Wang and the innovative solution of MycoWorks

A former child slave now rescues children from the same experience

Meet James Kofi Anan and the Challenging Heights

How can we face growing levels of poverty?

Italy: Davide Carimati reports on the exemplary project Insieme

The youth as active citizens

Ornella Nana, OLBIOS Correspondent in Ireland, highlights the work of INT.Y.E

Bridging the gap with classical music

A very special choir presented by Sara Soltani, OLBIOS Correspondent in Austria.

Getting a life through coding

From Beirut, Clementine Brown presents at OLBIOS the excellent initiative CodeBrave

Defining Oneself and Changing the Narrative

Australia: In his article for OLBIOS, Mohammed Semra, UN Humanitarian Affairs Peace Ambassador, writes on the challenge of defining oneself as opposed to being defined by others, the importance of role models and opportunity.

Do we still want to maximise consumption?

Jon Alexander, Founder and Director at New Citizenship Project, writes on sustainable consumption, the idea of consumption as a panacea and the Citizen Confidence Index

Do only crises bring us closer?

In an article contributed to OLBIOS, Angela Tolliday asks whether we can connect only during crises and claims that this is intimately connected to knowing one’s neighbours.

Helping children but also their communities

Rosalie Tieges spoke to OLBIOS from Thailand on how caring for children also creates much-needed jobs for their local communities

The fight against common and fundamental diseases

Nick Sireau, the founder of Orchard, spoke to OLBIOS from London on the lack of funds for OCD research and on how nature reveals its secrets ‘apart from the beaten path’

The pandemic's silver linings

Jordan: Rana Nejem tells OLBIOS about how the pandemic brought people together in the Arab world, often in unprecedented ways.

Bridging the gap between generations

The extraordinary work of the Agewell Foundation in India

Childhoods fit for children and the Alana model

The work of an outstanding Brazilian organisation on children's rights

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