Cambridge Sustainable Food are tackling poverty, climate change and ill health through food, and making their city a better place to live in. By Rute Costa “With a background in environmental sustainability, grassroots activism, and running food businesses I am totally committed to food that is good for us and good…
IndiGO is professionalising the volunteering sector by demolishing fees, offering training and organising aid missions. Gaggle is making doing good as easy as ordering an uber. Benjamin Western is one of the minds behind them, and he’s sharing his story. By Rute Costa Life after university can be daunting: the…
I switch on Skype as night falls on Shoreditch through the window. Ben, on the other end, is in warm and sunny Guatemala, 6 hours behind. He talks to me from El Paredón, a small village on the Pacific coast, where he has lived and worked for a social enterprise…
The Human Hope Foundation in Shimla, India, is reshaping the lives of children and empowering them with the tools for a brighter future. By Rute Costa The first time I set foot in the home of Human Hope Foundation in Shimla, I climbed the stairs to the top to find a large,…