For many of us, replacing a pair of glasses is a yearly event, or possibly more often than that if you are a child! So what to do with those old glasses? They are no more use to you, and you can’t sell them on, so often they get thrown away or languish in a…
Girls’ Education. Period.
All around the world, girls and women miss out on education due to a number of factors. One of these is a simple biological fact of life. They have periods. In our comfortable lives, it probably doesn’t occur to many people that the lack of sanitary supplies for menstruating women and girls means that they…
Navigating games and science
This week’s helpful amusement is an app you can download for free which is fun to play on your phone or tablet(just search for Sea Hero) but which is also part of a crowd science project to research the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. The app is called Sea Hero and is designed by Glitchers and…
Save the Earth!
Today is World Earth Day (22nd April) and its a good time to think of those small single steps we can take to help to save the Earth. Sometimes when we read articles about all the bad things happening to the earth, it can feel rather overwhelming. And maybe we sometimes think that the…
Crafting counts!
Those of us who enjoy crafting for pleasure sometimes find we produce more than we can give away or sell or need, but still want to keep our fingers busy and enjoy the process of crafting without necessarily needing to keep the product. If this is you, then there will be a series of blog…
Help to research cures for disease!
Today’s post is a pretty easy way in which you can really make a difference to medical research into some of the most distressing and incurable diseases of our time, including AIDS, Alzheimer’s, CJD (Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease), Huntington’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and many cancers.The research takes place at Stanford University and is looking at how…
Microfinance: a hand up not a hand out
Microfinance is a great way to help someone who wants to help themselves. As the name suggests, it is a small loan made to someone who needs the loan to improve their business, whether that be farming, market trading, sewing, hairdressing or cooking. The loans are made to people who will almost certainly pay them…
Community Research
There are many community research and citizen science programs that you can get involved in and which do only take a few minutes of your time. The idea of these projects is that if a lot of people do a few small tasks, a lot can get done. If everyone makes one single step, then…
Play a game: feed the hungry
Oh, and improve your knowledge at the same time…The Free Rice program comes from the United Nations World Food Program and is based on playing knowledge games. Each answer you get right wins you ten grains of rice. Now I know that doesn’t sound like a lot but its the kind of program you can…
A Single Step 