This article was originally published in the February edition of Rotary magazine. It’s 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning and the temperature is soaring toward the 90s as hundreds of children make their ...

A U.S. city of 60,000 people would typically see around six to eight traffic fatalities every year. But Hoboken, New Jersey? They haven’t had a single fatal crash for nine years — since January 17, ...

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Anabel Peterman is Next City and CivicLex's joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellow for Rural-Urban Issues. Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, she holds a degree in traditional music performance ...

Shia Levitt is a longtime public radio reporter and producer, and an accredited trainer of Solutions Journalism and Complicating the Narratives method. Levitt directs News Ambassadors, a project that ...

A young student set out to protect an endangered local bird. Two decades later, Dr. Purnima Devi Barman has built a 20,000-strong army of women conservationists.

Teen Line’s peer support can be a lifeline for callers. The volunteers behind it say it’s transformative for them too.

Informal schools dotted between Dal Lake’s watery hamlets ensure that local children are able to overcome previously insurmountable barriers to education. An innovative education model in northeast ...

Surrounded by vast sugarcane farms, pristine rainforest, empty beaches and lush waterfalls, Cameron Bates’ new home of Ingham, a town in northern Australia, was a welcome breath of fresh air after the ...

Just off the bustling Rue Montorgueil, one of the most commercial streets in Paris, the Centre Cerise, or Cherry Sociocultural Center, is a haven of local community. At the cafe in the back, where the ...

On a misty Thursday morning in the village of Pamohi in the northeast Indian state of Assam, children walk to school carrying two bags. One holds their books; the other contains 25 cleaned and sorted ...