Eliminating food deserts, social mobility for ex-prisoners, all-female Bangladeshi police team
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In today’s edition of Squirrel News, we’re talking about the basic right to healthy food in Belo Horizonte, former prisoners sharing the homes of strangers and how an all-female police team combats online harassment in Bangladesh.
Pioneering food security system eliminates hunger in Belo Horizonte
Access to affordable healthy food is a basic right for the residents of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, whose innovative food security system ensures no one goes hungry.
Car-free ‘Superblocks’ to be enlarged in Barcelona
Following on from the success of their introduction earlier this year, the city plans to expand the pedestrianised zones extensively over the course of the next decade.
A Malagasy community has saved its lake through community-driven management
The association has ensured the survival and revival of their lake’s ecosystem through regulation, and have even helped increase fish catches for the community.
Orthopedic surgeon fits first prosthesis for an elephant
After losing her leg in a landmine injury along the Thai-Burmese border at the age of two, Mosha the elephant is able to walk again due to an innovative new invention.