Society
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SocietyTree Lovers Want to Buy Land to Save Thousand Year Old Giant Sequoias
Save the Redwoods League is seeking the public’s help to finalize its purchase of Alder Creek – the world’s largest remaining privately owned giant sequoia forest – in California, United States, to protect and preserve the remarkable grove.
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SocietyThe U.S. is Ending Chronic Homelessness One City at a Time
A national program in the United States called Built for Zero has been ending chronic homelessness – the state of being homeless for more than a year – in cities using real-time data that allows officials to identify and extend a hand to those in need.
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SocietyThai Seafood Industry Tackles Slavery with Improved Regulations
The European Union has recently lifted a yellow card warning to Thailand following four years of substantial progress in the nation’s seafood industry, fighting human trafficking, improving worker conditions, and tackling illegal and unregulated fishing.
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SocietySouth African Men Blow Big Loud Trumpets for Women’s Safety
A patrol group led by men in Soweto, South Africa’s largest township, is fighting gender-based violence using their colorful vuvuzela trumpets to protect women from crime and harassment while safely escorting them to public transport.
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SocietyTeenage Prisoners Get a Weekly Taste of Freedom with Fencing Lessons
The second largest prison in Senegal offers young inmates a weekly fencing class, where boys and girls can spend two hours training together outside the prison walls, restoring self-confidence and learning respect and discipline along the way.
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SocietyMother of Three Becomes Role Model as First Female Railway Porter in Rajasthan
34-year-old Manju Devi broke through the glass ceiling as the first woman porter in conservative Rajasthan, India, working at the busy Jaipur railway station with 177 other porters - all of whom are men - and is praised by the authorities.