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Brilliant solutions to the world’s problems. We meet people with ideas to make the world a better place and investigate whether they work.
The group carrying on investigations when journalists are silenced. Over the last five years, almost 200 journalists have been killed outsid...
Greywater is the relatively clean waste water from baths, sinks, washing machines and dishwashers. It’s not drinkable but there’s still load...
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women globally. The earlier it is diagnosed the higher the chance of survival. Treatment, even wh...
The eco-tourism that is helping to protect mountain gorillas in Uganda. Myra Anubi is in Uganda visiting the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. It’...
Exploring style and beauty for people with disabilities. What we wear helps us express ourselves and communicate to others in the most immed...
**This episode contains one instance of offensive language How two projects in Kenya and Spain are helping LGBT communities. Setting up a bu...
How mums are helping transform early years education in Ghana. Pre-school, or early years education, is seen by experts as providing an impo...
Cities are getting bigger - and louder. As urban noise increases, we look at how sound itself can be used to make things feel quieter. Myra...
Can poetry change how we think, feel and act? We’re looking at how poetry is being used in some innovative and unexpected ways. We’ll hear f...
Seagrass meadows are one of the world’s most valuable underwater habitats. As well as providing food and shelter to thousands of species, se...
If you could invent a new kind of school what would it look like? What skills would you teach children, and how would the school be run? On...
Millions of people around the world are unpaid carers, providing help for a friend or family member who due to illness or disability cannot...
Peer support is an often overlooked but important tool that can reduce isolation, increase confidence and complement various health services...
Cities are growing and developing at a faster rate than at any time in history. More than half the world’s population now live in cities. Bu...
An innovative scheme in Scotland is helping dads in prison become better parents. Myra Anubi visits Barlinnie jail in Glasgow to meet the pr...
Wild horses have been roaming public lands in the American West for over a century but their population numbers are far greater than what is...
The Igba Boyi apprenticeship scheme, described as the world's largest business incubator, has helped the Nigerian Igbo people build generati...
Could AI technology help the fashion industry get to grips with sustainability, and arrest its brutal impact on the planet? With a huge carb...
8% of Swedish adults say they have no close friends, according to one survey. But a wave of innovative projects is trying to change that. Fr...
Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects that have been covered on People Fixing The World over the las...
The World Health Organisation recommends all pregnant women should have at least one ultrasound before six months. However, only half of wom...
Children with dyslexia are often misunderstood — but what if their struggles in school are actually signs of unique strengths? We visit a pi...
We look at solutions that focus on teaching children how to respect each other and understand their emotions better. We visit a primary scho...
Peru is famous for its diverse and innovative cuisine - but how is it making sure its venerable food heritage is preserved for decades to co...
Learning to read empowers people, reduces poverty and increases their job chances. Yet more than 700 miliion adults are illiterate, the majo...
How do you save threatened species? This week we look at two novel solutions. In the UK, scientists are developing a unique contraceptive th...
Organ transplantation has long been seen as a miracle of modern medicine but each year thousands of people across the world die while waitin...
Thousands of people in Sierra Leone lost limbs during the brutal civil war, and many more have struggled to overcome the mental as well as p...
Many cities are becoming unpleasant to live in: they are getting hotter due to climate change and all the heat absorbed by the streets and b...
The US state of Alaska may be known for its rugged wilderness, but it’s also quietly leading a green revolution. We explore how an island co...
A unique community in Chester in northern England, brings multiple generations together to encourage learning and connection. We explore how...
In some places, the nearest safe operating room can be hours or even days away. We find out about a portable operating theatre called SurgiB...
In one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Mumbai, a quiet transformation is underway. Govandi has long been associated with poverty and poor h...
Play is essential to children’s development – kids learn about themselves and the world around them by having fun and taking risks. In some...
A new farming method is having a dramatic effect on maize crops in Malawi. And assistance is coming from a solar-powered tractor. In the las...
In India, how can gorgeous flowers offered in a temple or gathered to decorate a wedding be an environmental problem? Chhavi Sachdev discove...
Frequent floods blight the poorest neighbourhoods of New Orleans but the residents are fighting back, one yard at a time. Physicist Helen Cz...
British Sikh engineer, Navjot Sawhney gave up his lucrative career to go and work in India, to use his skills to help solve problems for rur...
Communication is a human right - but what happens when someone can’t speak for themselves? Sean Allsop struggled to talk until he was eight...
What if reimagining how cities are designed could make women safer? In Cairo, sexual harassment and violence against women on the streets ha...
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet. We hear how a local business in Barbados is using sa...
Citizenship is a kind of social contract that exists in democracies. To function effectively, members of society need to feel like they can...
In 2017, Spanish engineer Pablo Bergasa began an unusual hobby: to design a new incubator for use in African hospitals. Eight years on, he h...
Food waste is one of the biggest environmental and economic challenges we face — and much of it happens long before the food reaches our pla...
Despite a lot of progress in the last few decades, more than a billion people still live in acute poverty, according to the UN. Many don’t h...
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - can be kept down kindly in urban areas. From street dogs to feral pigeons, many towns an...
Being in hospital can be frightening and lonely for children — but playful ideas are helping make the experience a little easier. In Scotlan...
Barcelona in Spain is famous for its beautiful streets, lined with tall apartment buildings. But the architecture is a problem for many peop...
Shipping containers are a staple of global trade, helping in the transport of all sorts of goods by sea across the world. But their relative...
What do you do with your waste if you live somewhere that doesn’t have the infrastructure to deal with it? Turns out there are some really s...