People Fixing the World Episodes Available now

Safer streets in Cairo
Can redesigning parts of Cairo make the city's streets safer for women?

How seaweed is surprisingly useful
From powering cars to feeding farm animals, how using seaweed more can help the planet.

Being better citizens
How two projects in Portugal are seeking to bolster people's participation in society.

Saving mothers and babies
We hear about the low-cost incubators that can run on a battery and a bottle of water.

Cutting food waste
The innovative 'smart labels' on food packaging and feeding fish with whisky waste

The traffic lights tackling poverty
We visit an innovative project in Paraguay that helps people improve their lives

What to do with stray animals
How the numbers of stray dogs - and feral pigeons - can be kept down kindly

Making hospitals kinder for kids
How clowns and consoles are making a stay in hospital a bit easier for unwell youngsters.

Making life easier for older people
We're in the US and Spain to look at how life can be improved for ageing populations.

Shipping containers fixing the world
How the metal boxes can be re-engineered in surprising and useful ways