People Fixing The World Episodes Episode guide
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The body suit that stops muscle spasms
Clever physiotherapy tools to help people get moving
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The World Cup of football solutions
How football can solve problems off the pitch
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Jobs for girls
How training women in male dominated professions is changing finances and attitudes
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COP27: Growing a forest the right way
Tree-planting schemes don’t always work, so what’s the best way to do forest restoration?
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Picking up healthcare with the litter
Collecting rubbish as if your life depended on it
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Albatrosses and oysters fixing the world
How seabirds and shellfish are protecting our planet
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Educating refugees
Helping young displaced people get a better start in life
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Sustainability in death
How you can be eco-friendly after you die
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Ending road deaths
How to stop cars from killing people
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Dads on duty
How volunteer dads are reducing school violence in Louisiana
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The food waste warriors
Three women with innovative projects that stopping food from going to waste
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How to get people eating less meat
Can ‘fake meat’ help reduce the amount of meat we consume?
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Hands-off health tech
How medics can treat people without touching them
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What 3D printing can fix
How 3D printing is changing lives from prosthetic limbs to classroom aids
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Fighting fashion waste
Turning discarded clothes into something useful.
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How to fix democracy
The debating platform that brings people together
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Getting refugees out of tents
Can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people?
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Using finance to fight homelessness
How bank accounts and clever investments are improving the lives of homeless people
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Saving kids with cancer
The Filipino doctor who’s found an affordable way of treating children with cancer
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The power of group therapy
Therapy has been helping Boko Haram survivors and street youth in Liberia.
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Keeping medicines cool
How enzymes and earthen pots can help keep medicines safe
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The future of wind power
How floating wind turbines and power-generating kites could help fight climate change
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Getting kids out of institutions
Meet the people finding families for some of the five million children living in care
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Racing to get kids reading
How a race to write books and a gadget that counts words are helping child literacy
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Safer cities for women
How can you stop women being harassed in the street?
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Helping teenagers become good mums
Innovative projects around the world are trying to help teenage mums
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Turning mud into ‘clean’ concrete
The man whose special powder turns waste soil into buildings
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Robots fixing sewers
The robots that navigate sewer pipes to find leaks and blockages so people don't have to
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Using lotteries to make us better people
The lotteries that nudge people to take medicine, pick up litter or pay their taxes
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Work: Access for all
We look at workplaces that have welcomed people with learning disabilities on to the team