People Fixing the World Episodes Episode guide
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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
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Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles
The special bridges that are helping to save slow lorises and reunite rare monkeys
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Helping animals cross the road and other obstacles
The special bridges that are helping to save slow lorises and reunite rare monkeys
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Hands-Off Health Tech
How medics can treat people without touching them
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Greener ways to keep cool
We look at how sport has a unique ability to change people's lives for the better
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Greener ways to feed the world
How lab-brewed dairy and urban food forests can tackle climate change and hunger
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Greener In Death
How “water cremation” offers a new way of dealing with dead bodies.
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Grannies fixing the world
The projects around the world using the influence of grandmothers to help improve lives
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Getting rid of AI bias
Better facial recognition and changing algorithms - how to fight racial bias in AI
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Getting refugees out of tents
Getting refugees out of tents
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Getting refugees out of tents
Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?
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Getting kids out of institutions
Meet the people finding families for some of the 5 million children living in care
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Genetic problem-solving
From fast-growing food to life-saving rice, is genetic modification a good solution?
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Generating Power from the Roads
A highway in the US is being used to generate power and make toilet paper
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Gaming for good
Gamers are helping scientists to analyse research and develop new drugs
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Gadgets for blind people
The mobility aid and tactile tablet that could help people with visual impairments
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Front Yard Floods
New Orleans residents are fighting the flood waters, one yard at a time
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From prison to star employee
Why former criminals are being chosen for jobs at hundreds of companies in a small US city
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Forecasting volcanoes
Preparing for disasters long before they strike rather than rescuing people afterwards
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Food waste: The solar dryer solution
A simple system for saving food and empowering women
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Flower Power
In India what can be done with thousands of tonnes of flower waste?
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Fixing elections - for the better
2024 has been a big year for elections. But how can we make sure people can vote safely?
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Fishing trash from our oceans
Tackling the millions of tonnes of waste being washed out to sea every year