People Fixing the World
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People Fixing the World
Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
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Alaska's wild solutions
The US state of Alaska may be known for its rugged wilderness, but it’s also quietly leading a green revolution. We explore how an island community is...
The preschool in a retirement home
A unique community in Chester in northern England, brings multiple generations together to encourage learning and connection. We explore how young chi...
Surgery in a backpack
In some places, the nearest safe operating room can be hours or even days away. We find out about a portable operating theatre called SurgiBox that fi...
Transforming life in cities
In one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Mumbai, a quiet transformation is underway. Govandi has long been associated with poverty and poor health outc...
The power of play
Play is essential to children’s development – kids learn about themselves and the world around them by having fun and taking risks. In some countries...
Digging deep to help farmers
A new farming method is having a dramatic effect on maize crops in Malawi. And assistance is coming from a solar-powered tractor. In the last of her v...
Flower Power
In India, how can gorgeous flowers offered in a temple or gathered to decorate a wedding be an environmental problem? Chhavi Sachdev discovers that th...
Front Yard Floods
Frequent floods blight the poorest neighbourhoods of New Orleans but the residents are fighting back, one yard at a time. Physicist Helen Czerski joi...
A Washing Machine Solution
British Sikh engineer, Navjot Sawhney gave up his lucrative career to go and work in India, to use his skills to help solve problems for rural communi...
Speaking out
Communication is a human right - but what happens when someone can’t speak for themselves?
Sean Allsop struggled to talk until he was eight year...
Safer streets in Cairo
What if reimagining how cities are designed could make women safer? In Cairo, sexual harassment and violence against women on the streets has been end...
How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet. We hear how a local business in Barbados is using sargassum se...
Being better citizens
Citizenship is a kind of social contract that exists in democracies. To function effectively, members of society need to feel like they can engage wit...
Saving mothers and babies
In 2017, Spanish engineer Pablo Bergasa began an unusual hobby: to design a new incubator for use in African hospitals. Eight years on, he has sent 20...
Cutting food waste
Food waste is one of the biggest environmental and economic challenges we face — and much of it happens long before the food reaches our plates. In th...
The traffic lights tackling poverty
Despite a lot of progress in the last few decades, more than a billion people still live in acute poverty, according to the UN. Many don’t have access...
What to do with stray animals
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - can be kept down kindly in urban areas. From street dogs to feral pigeons, many towns and cities a...
Making hospitals kinder for kids
Being in hospital can be frightening and lonely for children — but playful ideas are helping make the experience a little easier. In Scotland, profess...
Making life easier for older people
Barcelona in Spain is famous for its beautiful streets, lined with tall apartment buildings. But the architecture is a problem for many people who hav...
Shipping containers fixing the world
Shipping containers are a staple of global trade, helping in the transport of all sorts of goods by sea across the world. But their relatively cheap c...
Malawi's waste warriors
What do you do with your waste if you live somewhere that doesn’t have the infrastructure to deal with it? Turns out there are some really simple solu...
Working with our minds
Mindfulness meditation, which involves becoming aware of the breath in the present moment, has been a core part of Eastern contemplative practices for...
Helping Chile's stolen children
During the 1970s and 80s, thousands of Chilean babies were illegally kidnapped, trafficked and adopted. The practice was widespread during the rule of...
The classroom tablet revolution
From Malawi, Myra Anubi takes a look at ways that technology is improving children’s education. Malawi has free primary schools - but almost 90% of 10...
Tackling bias in health
Bias in the way medical research is carried out means that new medicines for diseases such as cancer – as well as the tools used to diagnose patients...
Gadgets for blind people
Myra Anubi is joined by BBC Access All presenter Emma Tracey to look at new technology that could help blind people in their everyday lives. Glide is...
How sport can bring outsiders in
This week we look at two projects that show how sport can be a powerful tool for social inclusion.
We go rowing with some refugees in Seville, S...
Recovery for all
There are more people alive and living for longer - but with that comes more people experiencing failing health. While some of this is inevitable, som...
Radioactive rhinos
The global rhino population has fallen by 95% since 1900, mainly due to poaching. Now an atomic approach is being used to stop the poachers in South A...
Building a clinic to save a forest
How do you stop people chopping down precious rainforest? In the Indonesian part of Borneo, researchers for a conservation charity discovered that loc...
Helping the children of sex workers
In the red light districts of Kolkata, India, there exists an extraordinary youth club. DIKSHA, as it’s known, looks after the children of sex workers...
Fishing trash from our oceans
Around the world, rubbish is collecting in our gutters and waterways, with millions of tonnes being washed out to sea every year. As the soup of ocean...
Renewable kids on the block
Globally, energy production and use is responsible for around 75% of the world’s carbon emissions, with around a third of that on electricity and heat...
The artificial limbs bringing hope in Gaza
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in every 100 people in Gaza have a life-changing injury because of the conflict. It’s currently...
How to have better sex
Sex is one of the few things in life that is available to everyone and is free. But achieving enjoyable sex is not possible for many. Some people are...
Making money go further
Billions of people struggle to make ends meet a lot of the time. We look at ways in which people who don’t have much money or are in financial distres...
Improving our eyesight
Many agricultural workers don’t have the eyesight they need for the work they do, affecting both their comfort and their ability to earn more money. T...
Sharing the river
In the farming community of Los Negros in rural Bolivia, the river is their life and livelihood. So when that river started to dry up, it made life ve...
We're coming back for 2025!
A quick hello and happy new year from Myra and a preview of some of the great solutions coming up on People Fixing The World. Share our podcast with y...
Restoring nature for all
Myra Anubi visits a major project in the north of England that’s restoring a damaged landscape. Haweswater in the Lake District is an area of stunning...