At 88 years old many people would lie down and rest. Not Donna Maria Davina Rodriguez, known in Salvador as 'Mãe Preta' (The Black Mother) who has spent the past 40 years of her life feeding poor and homeless children. Melanie Scagliarini reflects on a meeting with this ex-prostitute…

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Richard Lemmer scopes across the world’s headlines this week; which include US billionaires pledging their leftover wealth to charities, Naomi Campbell testifying at the trial of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor, and Wyclef Jean eyeing up the Haiti Presidential spot...

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Josh Strauss was down at the Institute for Civil Engineering in London last week for an epic protest against Vedanta; and their "reckless destruction of delicate ecosystems and indigenous homelands" in the Niyamgiri Hills of India...

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Adizah Tejani enters the world of a social entrepreneur - and of the UK’s next generation, fewer are more respected than G20 Summit Brit representative, Nathaniel Peat…

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