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Barbara Olivi is the founder of the NGO Il Sorriso dei miei Bimbi as well as an activist in children’s education and empowerment in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro. She was nominated by Wiser.org’s Emma De Masi, who had the opportunity to work with Barbara in Brazil. By Emma De Masi & Barbara [...]

Tags: barbara olivi, Brazil, favela rocinha, Il Sorriso dei miei Bimbi, women's empowerment, youth education, youth empowerment

Wiser.org Editor Sil tells us about how food cooperatives are creating more sustainable communities and benefiting the environment. Join this growing global movement and check out a co-op near you! By Sil Gabriell A food cooperative or food co-op is a food distribution outlet organized as a cooperative. This means the decisions regarding the production [...]

Tags: earth day, environment, food co-op, food systems, local foods, sustainability, sustainable agriculture, sustainable food

In addition to celebrating Earth Day and Wiser.org’s 6th birthday, we will also be celebrating the tremendous work of our hundreds of volunteers by making this week Volunteer Appreciation Week as part of National Volunteer Week, which officially takes place from April 21-27 in the United States. Volunteers (both past and present) who have worked [...]

Tags: appreciation, celebrating, earth day, volunteers

“I have a dream… about a unified global social movement, a great awakening of humanity.” ~Felix, Germany  This Earth Day, the Wiser.org Community is celebrating dreams. Whatever your dream for Earth Day, please share it!

Tags: dreams, earth day, wiser, Wiser.org

Listening to What Women Want “We need to go to developing countries and work with the women there and learn what best practices are for them and what barriers there are for women to get an education and more,” says Suzanne York, who works as a writer for the Institute for Population Studies and contributes [...]

Tags: Institute for Population Studies, population, suzanne york, Wiser's Women of the Week, women's empowerment

Adib is a Wiser.org Editor and WiserLocal organizer from Bangladesh. On Earth Day last year, he founded the first online green magazine in Bangladesh – GreenMagz. Adib shares how his dream of launching an environmental magazine came to life. By Adib Khondoker Ratul “In Bangladesh, I wasn’t able to find any platform where environmental professionals [...]

Tags: Adib Khondoker Ratul, Bangladesh, environment, GreenMagz, magazine, Mahbubur Rahman Apu, online

A focus by the Wiser.org community on women’s empowerment began in February, a month before International Women’s Day. This was the start of a deliberate campaign by members of Wiser.org to shine a light on inspirational women around the globe and to help build up discussions related to issues and inequalities that affect women each [...]

Tags: community, discussion, gender issues, International Women's Day, women empowered, women's empowerment, women's rights

We are inaugurating our new blog series, Wiser’s Women of the Week, with the story of an extraordinary woman from Kenya named Halima. She was nominated by her friend Maryanne, a member of Wiser.org, who also wrote this article. Maryanne is currently a university student studying disaster management and humanitarian assistance. By Maryanne Muriuki When [...]

Tags: education, Halima Chelagat Kosgei, Kenya, Maryanne Muriuki, teacher, Wiser's Women of the Week