An innovative method of facilitating charitable donations by rounding up to the nearest euro at store checkouts

As he was walking on the streets of Melbourne, entrepreneur and business coach Simon Rowe was moved by the sight of a man trying to sleep in a concrete doorway on a busy street in the middle of the day. He began to wonder: how could he help the homeless people get a safe and comfortable sleep?

Today is Impact Journalism Day, and 55 newspapers unite to celebrate change makers everywhere.

It seems that Switzerland is the happiest nation in the world...or at least if we are to believe the latest World Happiness Report

It weighs no more than 300 grams, fits easily into a backpack and looks like any other plastic bag.

While working with one of the civil society organisations in Egypt in 2005, American citizen Rebecca Chao and her three Egyptian

It was a fine morning on June 25th, 2013. RagibHasan reached his office atthe University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA and started

Plant first, ask later. This is what a handful of volunteers in an ordinary town in northern England did, and from it sprang a worldwide

This July, a Muslim, a Jew, a Christian and an atheist will take off on a year-long journey around the world, the second

Russian developer Mikhail Pozhidaev, himself visually impaired, has created a free operating system for the blind, which is simple

In India’s Barefoot College, rural women learn to make and maintain solar panels, bringing clean power to their villages and creating

Generating electricity through play. That’s the simple but inspired idea of an American humanitarian organisation: Empower

At the end of 2011, a group of friends saved 12 cheese pies left over at a bakery in a poor neighbourhood of western Athens and

Filled with stamps from the 15 or so countries he has visited, Brandon Cobone has an impressive passport for an 18-year-old. Even

The free iPhone app Be My Eyes connects blind users with sighted volunteers. When a blind user needs help, he accesses the app and

When Dave Hakkens’ camera broke during a vacation in 2012, the Dutch design student took it apart to see what had gone wrong.

Belete Tura straps a large, lightweight pack to her back before starting her short walk to a nearby biogas facility in ArsiNegele, in the

He was 17 when a car accident left him without his right leg.Walter Aguilar Turcios thought his life was over, that he would never be able

Who would have thought that poo could be a source of clean energy?

ReabetsweNgwane and business partner ThatoKgatlhanye personify the buzzphrase social entrepreneurship. They have designed