People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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How to make electricity for your neighbours
The energy microgrid that started with scrap metal and an old bicycle
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How to Help ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½less People in Hospital
A project that tries to stop people returning to a life of homelessness after hospital
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How to have better sex
Solutions to help people enjoy sex more
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How to Get Wheelchairs on Planes
Why can’t wheelchair users just roll onto aeroplanes?
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How to get people eating less meat
Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
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How to get everyone online
Balloons and satellites could help get more people get on to the internet
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How to Get Blood Where it is Needed
An entrepreneur in Nigeria is using an app to solve the blood shortage.
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How to fix democracy
The debating platform that brings people together
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How to fight fake health news
Can playing a video game ‘inoculate’ your mind against medical misinformation?
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How to Build a City for an Ageing Population
Japan’s Kashiwa City has redesigned buildings and jobs to adapt to an ageing population
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How To Be A Better Mum In Jail
A project in the US puts doulas into prisons to give babies a good start in life.
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How to be a better dad
Teaching men to look after their babies and how this can help cut violence against women
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How they’re saving the kakapo
It’s a flightless bird close to extinction, but the kakapo recovery team is on the case.
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How tech is tackling wildlife trafficking
The exciting new tools helping to save some of our most endangered animals.
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How sport can bring outsiders in
We look at two projects that show how sport can be a powerful tool for social inclusion.
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How Nepal Doubled its Tiger Population
Over the past 10 years, Nepal has almost doubled its population of Bengal tigers
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How literacy can change a life
How an app in Somaliland and moveable classrooms in Bangladesh help adults learn to read
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How jellyfish can help us
Jellyfish could be used to filter microplastics from water and develop new medicines
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How Iceland Saved Its Teenagers
The story of how a nation came together to wean its teenagers off drink and drugs.
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How Iceland is Fighting the Gender Pay Gap
Is it possible to force companies to pay men and women the same?
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How five friends can change a refugee’s life
Groups of Dutch friends are helping families settle when they move to a new country
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How China is Cleaning its Air
A special programme exploring how China is finding ways to cut air pollution.
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How Cervical ‘Selfies’ are Fighting Cancer in The Gambia
A new device lets nurses in rural Gambia find and stop cervical cancer.
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How 'Buddy Benches' are Making Playtime Less Lonely
Buddy Benches are proving popular in Irish schools
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Hopping aboard the hospital train
How trains - and trucks - are taking healthcare into the communities that need it most.
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Helping the children of sex workers
The youth club in the Indian city of Kolkata that is making a difference
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Helping teenagers become good mums
Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums
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Helping elephants and humans get along
How to prevent conflict between people and animals
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Helping Disabled People With Sex
The group in Taiwan helping disabled people to fulfil their sexual needs
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Helping Chile's stolen children
How a small NGO is helping people in Chile to trace their birth families