Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.Robert Louis Stevenson

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  • No Hunger in Belo Horizonte

    About 275 miles north of Rio de Janeiro there’s a city of 2.5 million people with no hunger. It’s Belo Horizonte, a technological industrial hub which had all the social divisions and hunger similar cities have in the US and elsewhere. But back in 1993 the city did something rather notable and rare, it enacted…

  • The Visiting Room

    If you want to be moved, go to the visiting room. If you want to hear how people can change, go to the visiting room. It’s a project based on interviewing and filming  a 100 lifers at Angola State Prison in Louisiana, all those interviewed  have been there at least 20 years. It’s a notorious…

  • Period Poverty

    Scotland has become the first country in the world to offer tampons and pads for free, for anyone, more accurately for anyone who needs them. Seen on a global scale it’s bigger news than it may at first appear.  That is because of what GZERO Media calls period poverty, the lack of being able to…

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