Today in Squirrel News, India helps reintroducing convicts into society through 88 open prisons, emotion coaching helps children tackle trauma and develop resilience, and Nigeria invites children in Lagos’ slums to schools by training them through chess.
Daniel Bogacki
Internships for adults, Captain Fanplastic, African elephants capturing carbon
Today in Squirrel News, internships for adult women help them re-enter the workforce and possibly into leadership positions, London set up a special programme to immediately address language barriers for refugee children, South Africa tackles its plastic waste problem by training children to become anti plastic ‘pirates’ and the African forest elephant captures carbon emissions.
NFTs preserving rainforest, farmers fertilise with human waste, Asia’s first plant-based butcher
Today in Squirrel News, a Brazilian company sells non-fungible tokens to preserve the Amazon rainforest rewarding the supporter with a picture of local wildlife, Mexican farmers replace artificial fertilisers with those made of human waste, and Asia’s first vegan and vegetarian butcher sets up his shop in Singapore.
The Nordic case against bullying, Kyiv’s independent voice, drones saving lives
Today in Squirrel News, a holistic Scandinavian approach against bullying is introduced in US schools, the Kyiv Independent’s outreach skyrockets eight-fold, and Swedish drones provide emergency treatment to distress calls within three minutes.
Treating financial trauma, reviving The Emancipator, the world’s edible cities
Today in Squirrel News we take a look at how an initiative supports people suffering from financial pressure and challenge capitalistic values, a former abolition newspaper making a comeback to challenge misconceptions, and how urban farming schemes are returning spreading throughout the world.
Paralysed man walks again, British cranes make historic comeback, world’s largest wild-life bridge
In today’s edition of Squirrel News, an electrical implant helps a man with a severed spinal cord to walk, the number of British cranes reaches its highest number in 400 years, and a wild life bridge in urban Los Angeles helps man and beast coexist.
