People Fixing the World

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2025-02-18

  How to have better sex

Sex is one of the few things in life that is available to everyone and is free. But achieving enjoyable sex is not possible for many. Some people are held back by fear, ignorance or culture - others don’t know or understand their rights around sex. For...
  BBC World Service author
2025-02-11

  Making money go further

Billions of people struggle to make ends meet a lot of the time. We look at ways in which people who don’t have much money or are in financial distress can make what they do have go further. We visit savings and credit groups which are helping women to...
  BBC World Service author
2025-02-04

  Improving our eyesight

Many agricultural workers don’t have the eyesight they need for the work they do, affecting both their comfort and their ability to earn more money. They're among the billion plus people who have visual impairments but can't get the assistance they nee...
  BBC World Service author
2025-01-28

  Sharing the river

In the farming community of Los Negros in rural Bolivia, the river is their life and livelihood. So when that river started to dry up, it made life very hard. They blamed the villages upstream for not looking after their precious water.This conflict co...
  BBC World Service author
2025-01-21

  We're coming back for 2025!

A quick hello and happy new year from Myra and a preview of some of the great solutions coming up on People Fixing The World. Share our podcast with your friends and family and give them something to cheer about as we look ahead to 2025.People Fixing T...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-31

  Restoring nature for all

Myra Anubi visits a major project in the north of England that’s restoring a damaged landscape. Haweswater in the Lake District is an area of stunning natural beauty but over the years it’s been degraded by humans and livestock. This has created flood ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-24

  Our favourite solutions

Presenter Myra Anubi and the team chat about some of their favourite projects that have been covered on People Fixing The World over the last twelve months.We’ll be returning to Thailand and the school run by kids; checking in with a family of beavers ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-17

  The cows fighting wildfires

This summer, deadly wildfires raged in countries like Spain, Canada, and Greece. And as the earth warms up, they’re becoming increasingly common and harder to deal with. Today, we will hear about a special herd of cows which are helping to keep some of...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-10

  Reducing gun violence

The misuse of guns is a problem for lots of countries across the world. This week we look at projects trying to reduce deaths and injuries.In the US we visit the company which says it has successfully developed the world’s first ‘smart gun’ which uses ...
  BBC World Service author
2024-12-03

  Cleaning up India's streets

The world produces about 400 million tonnes of plastic waste annually. A lot of this waste, such as multi-layered plastic packaging and cigarette butts, is hard to recycle. Instead, it fills up landfills and contaminates the environment.We travel to th...
  BBC World Service author