Siem Reap province, Cambodia — Merry doesn't sleep much at night. In spite of this, she's usually up before the sun, and then driven

The dimly lit café was stirring to life on a Monday morning as the traffic flow on the sleepy Fatehabad Road outside gradually picked up pace.

When non-profit Impact Carbon was first introduced in Uganda, it sought ways of advancing the production and quality of improved,

On April 24, 2013, the eight-storey Rana Plaza building, just outside Dhaka, collapsed – trapping nearly 3,000 people inside. The

In 2009, young Lebanese-American Zeina Saab met Nadeen Ghosn in the isolated Lebanese village of Chmestar. The unabashed 14-

If the banana trees at Zoo Zurich are particularly lush, it's thanks to a fertiliser with an unusual ingredient: human waste. In the spring of

Founded by a group of young Filipinos, social enterprise Cropital has developed a crowdfunding site that aims to provide technical and

Nuevo Saposoa is a small and modest indigenous community in the heart of the Peruvian jungle, where the rhythm of daily life

Imagine a technology so advanced that it can save communities in draught-ridden as well as water-logged or flooded areas,

In a quiet section of the Ostrovski Museum on Tverskaïa Street, Moscow, a group of 12 unique actors are busy rehearsing for a

Attainment of motherhood is a beautiful, life-altering event, but as Olesya Kashaeva realised, it comes with its hindrances.

When Maya Rostam first asked her mother if she could join a new photography course in the Kawergosk refugee camp where they lived, she got a resounding “No.”

Kanattsanan “Mukk” Dokput was 27 when he sank the first needle full of black market testosterone into his thigh.

A woman can bleed to death in a couple of hours, or even less, after giving birth. In rural areas, where hospitals may be days

At Reap Benefit’s charming office in an old bungalow in Bangalore is a quote by Mozart, written with chalk at the entrance: “Be silent if you choose but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.”

Gamal Albinsaid, 24, a young graduate of Brawijaya University’s School of Medicine in Malang, East Java started a unique movement in his native Indonesia – enabling people without health insurance to access medical services in exchange for collecting trash for recycling.

They’re called First Responders: ordinary people who, when alerted by a message on their smartphone at any time and in any place, are ready to go to a person's rescue and become resuscitators.

The Maya App is perhaps one of the biggest initiatives undertaken to create a virtual safe space for people from all walks of

When the Syrian army draft papers came in, his father told him it was time to get out.

When Waleed Shawky came across a large cache of donated medicine in a Cairo mosquein 2010, he was awestruck. The pharmacist had long wondered where the E£1 billion (US$112 million) of medicine that is wasted every year in Egypt goes.