Pacific

Vanuatu Innovator Uses Bamboo to Improve Hygiene Lack of running water is often the cause of severe malnutrition and other illnesses in rural communities across Pacific island countries. Tom Yakken, a village resident in Vanuatu, has developed a ‘tippy tap’ (a...

Europe

Real Junk Food Project Combats Food Waste in the UK Adam Smith uses farmers’ production waste to ‘feed the world’ and is a runner-up in the Food Chain’s 2018 Global Food Champion Award in the BBC Food and Farming Awards. He is combatting food wastage by using surplus...

Caribbean and Americas

Trinidadian Transforms Coconut Waste into Eyewear Darceuil Duncan, an environmental manager in Trinidad and Tobago, was looking for a creative solution to the problem of organic waste generated by the coconut sector in her country. In the process, she also saw an...

Asia

Revolutionising Menstrual Health in Rural India Arunachalam Muruganantham, a school dropout from a poor family in southern India, has revolutionised menstrual health for rural women in developing countries by inventing a simple machine they can use to make cheap...

Africa

Nigerian and Ugandan Innovators Combat Food Waste Due to electricity shortages and lack of storage facilities, half of all the fruit and vegetables produced in Africa is thrown away, even though millions of people across the continent are going hungry. Young Nigerian...

Spotlight

From Fixing Broken Bikes in London to Innovative Entrepreneur Growing up in south London, George Imafidon might not have seen engineering as an achievable career goal. Today, he has gone from fixing broken bicycles to being chosen as one of the Queen’s Young Leaders...