A Guide to Hopebuilding Stories

Categorizing these stories (517 as of Nov. 5, 2009) is often challenging, because many of them talk about people's or community activities that addressed a number of issues at once, or grew from one small project into something much larger. Reflecting this, some stories will have several different tags, even if they have been posted in one folder. 

You will find all the stories in the folders on the pane at the lower right hand side. More stories are added regularly. You are welcome to share stories of similar achievements. See Great Links for links to websites that provide many other stories of achievement. Below are the 25 most recent stories added to Hopebuilding:

New Stories

• Traditional plant medicines could prevent malaria deaths in Africa
• Registering births via mobile phone in South Pacific
• Sun helps South Africans cut power bills, save the planet
• Local, international volunteers build homes for orphans in Romania
• Australian teacher creates a solution for those who sleep on the street
• Blacksmith business booms in remote Timor Leste thanks to skills training
• Rainwater harvesting brings water, social empowerment to rural women in southern Pakistan
• Microcredit and hard work bring success for small Honduran bakery
• Mumbai rainwater harvesting ensures water in dry times
• Creating a sustainable, caring community in an abandoned Swazi mining town
• Bamboo taxis provide energy-efficient transport in Philippines
• Ugandan nutrition program wins prestigious heart health award
• Mobile phones bring farmers, scientists together to fight cassava diseases in Tanzania
• African farmers get geospatial info via mobile phone
• Low-cost health education materials save lives in the developing world
• Western and Central African armies band together to battle HIV
• In Somalia, women’s groups go where aid agencies fear to tread
• Historic South African farm plans for a hotter, drier future
• Spend 67 minutes to change your world, July 18, Mandela Day
• Stable funding will help 24 African think tanks work on complex issues
• Children use right to information to bring teacher back to school in remote mountain village
• Drug that could stop river blindness being tested in Liberia, Ghana and Congo
• Survival in Sudan: Local strategies for alleviating poverty
• A bio-inspired city in India may change the world by imitating nature
• Mobile phones give Uganda's poor a virtual market, health and agricultural information
• Self-help group works toward equality, dignity for disabled in Burma

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