Editor's Note: Newspapers for Positive Global Changes

Our world today is one of tremendous HOPE, though sadly plagued by death, destruction, corruption and round-the-clock negative news.We need more stories of inspiration and change. We need to believe that another world is not only possible, but that it actually exists right now. A world that we, the media, need to highlight, strengthen and be a part of. We are excited, therefore, to be a partner of an innovative global platform to highlight positive and creative projects from around the world, which have had huge social impacts.

Impact Journalism Day (IJD) is an international collaboration between leading newspapers to provide concrete solutions to global issues.Today, in the third edition of IJD, 45 leading newspapers from all over the world will publish 101 stories of hope and change, reaching 120 million readers. These stories come from 65 countries spanning six continents, including Bangladesh. Three stories of The Daily Starare a part of this global repository of change-making initiatives.

Today, in a special supplement, which is simultaneously published in 45other newspapers, we highlight selected stories on economy,environment, energy, gender equality, health and technology, from Denmark, Egypt,Ghana, Honduras, India, Greece,the Netherlands,Paraguay, Switzerland and the United States. We are also publishing additional 30 stories on our website.

We hope that our readers and that of 45 other newspapers will be inspired by the stories and solutions that are changing the world, and be moved to replicate some of these initiatives in their respective countries, including in Bangladesh.

Three stories of The Daily Star are being published in newspapers all over the world -- the inspiring work of Bravemen Campaign, a movement led by young boys to challenge violence against women, BanglaBraille, a group which produces Braille books and audio versions for visually impaired children and Friendship, an NGO that provides healthcare and other facilities to the remotest population of Bangladesh. (You can read the first story in this supplement; the rest, published previously, can be revisited in the IJD supplement in our website).