A Guide to Hopebuilding Stories
Categorizing these stories (379 as of Nov. 14, 2008) is often challenging, because many of them talk about people's or community activities that addressed a number of issues at once, or grew from one small project into something much larger. Reflecting this, some stories appear in several categories. Clicking on the links highlighted in blue will take you to that page. Please do read my GuidelinesForSharing before you post.
Stories about Agriculture
- Growing nerica rice in Gambia changes womens’ lives
- Commercial production of sanitized human fertilizer now a reality in Burkina Faso
- Agricultural information into local language sparked womens creativity in Cameroon
- Swedish project helps Niger farmers see nature’s answers to food insecurity
- Raising goats saves on fertilizer costs for farmers in Philippines
- Storytelling is new form of research at unique farmers conference
- African crop yields benefit from 'pinch' of fertiliser
- ‘Banana Mama’ wins YARA prize for helping African farmers escape poverty
- Find all stories about agriculture by clicking here
Stories about Community Capacity
- Bloggers save lives by allowing citizens to map, and see, outbreaks of violence
- Young people create new life and lush urban garden in former Kibera waste dump
- Kenya, Somaliland, Tanzanian organizations win award for their work with disadvantaged children
- Successful model sustains AIDS orphans by rebuilding villages sustainably
- Grassroots environmental heroes from around the world win largest prize
Stories about Governance
- Families restore shared pasture management in Kyrgyzstan’s mountains
- Former Botswana president ensured stability, prosperity in face of AIDS pandemic
- Brazil’s Lula achieves ‘inclusive prosperity’ that benefits the poor and grows the economy
- Five Presidents will help ALAS improve lives of Latin America’s poor children
- Young people of J8 make recommendations to world leaders
- Rwanda leads the world in women's political equality
- Effective land titles system empowers farmers in Tanzania
Stories about Health
- South African nurse honoured for exemplary contribution to her profession
- Hundreds run in Tanzania to increase breast cancer awareness, action
- North South research collaboration produces effective TB vaccine for HIV patients
- Elephant Toilet and Elephant Pump bring sustainable sanitation to Malawi, Zimbabwe
- ‘Integrating TB and HIV treatment and care saves lives’, South African study finds
- Cervical cancer control 'achievable for the first time'
- New therapeutic food is miracle for starving children
- Recycled phones and free software revolutionize health care for Malawi hospital
Stories about Money
- Women in remote Caribbean island honoured for effective rural development activities
- Technological innovation brings low-cost phone calls to poor South African townships
- Disabled Niger gardener now feeds her family and her neighbours
- Humanitarian agency uses mobile phones to deliver cash aid in Kenya
- Mobile phone banking comes to remote Maldives, Mongolia
- Mobile phones allow people to transfer money person to person in Kenya, Afghanistan
- Find all stories about money by clicking here
Stories about Peace
- Climbing Mount Kenya to build peace and protect the earth
- Kenyan youth lead camel caravans for peace in Great Lakes
- Weaving traditional scarves helps build peace in Mindanao
- Rats sniff out land mines, tuberculosis in Africa
- Irish drama helps Afghanis come to terms with years of war
Stories about Rebuilding
- Kenyan businesswoman’s generosity gives hope to 40 displaced families
- Five Congo nurses create organization to aid Congo women raped by rebel fighters
- First Southern Sudanese town celebrates demining success
- Hutus and Tutsis live side by side in new Burundi ‘peace village’
- Click a day plants 16 million trees in Brazil’s Atlantic coastal forest
- Homeless World Cup changes lives, attitudes about homelessness
- Refugees are the filmmakers, actors and audience in unique Kenyan film festival
- Find all stories about rebuilding by clicking here
Stories about Schools
- Creating a sustainable, self-funded vocational school in Tanzania
- Community kindergarten gives Kyrgyzstan children a good start in life
- Canadians reach out to help the orphans of Lesotho attend school
- Teaching and overcoming fear about HIV are both vital jobs in Swaziland
- Affordable menstrual pads keep girls in school, create jobs
- Recycling paper in Malawi benefits schools, communities and environment
Stories about Sharing
- Quilt stitched by women in 64 countries shows their dreams for a better world
- Reconditioned US bicycles provide transportation in the developing world
- Acupuncturists bring healing, relief, local training across the globe
- Gift of a goat from US schoolchildren leads to Ugandan village’s first college graduate
- Old US hospital equipment, vital supplies bring new life in developing countries
- MalariaEngage hopes social networking will bring funds to African researchers
Stories about Sustainability
- Unwanted water hyacinth is recycled into fuel, organic fertilizer in Philippines
- Reforesting desolate Colombian savannah shows sustainability can be created anywhere
- South Africa launches world’s first scheme to let water users balance demand and supply
- Biochar can solve food security, fuel crisis, and climate change
- China could become a global low carbon leader, report says
- Tanzanian blacksmiths pass on skills, creating jobs and saving forests
- Unique rental model brings solar power to remote Lao villages
- Find all stories about sustainability by clicking here
Stories about Work
- Local dairies bring abundant milk to Haiti’s poor
- Guatemalan women build unique partnership with leading US yerba mate distributor
- Biogas plants in Rwandan prisons treat sewage, generate biogas and crop fertilizer, and save trees
- More than 100,000 Tanzanian homes built with bricks fired by agricultural waste
- Unique Honey Bee Network promotes rural Indian invention
- South African program to clear invasive trees creates jobs, reduces poverty
- Pygmy communities, loggers in Congo use GPS, community radio to protect cultural sites
- SEWA empowers Indian widow in rebuilding her life, community
More stories are added regularly. You are welcome to send or share stories of similar achievements. See Great Links for links to websites that provide many other stories of achievement.
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All the stories about sustainability on Hopebuilding wiki are listed here. Click on each individual story link to read the story.
The stories are also tagged by country; you can see these listings if you click on "See all pages and tags" at the bottom of the page.
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