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- Papers and scissors – in the African district of Brussels, a cooperative provides hairdressers and tailors with a way out of informalitySocial actors working in the social and collaborative economy launched the cooperative after having observed that many barbers, hairdressers and tailors, mostly on piecework pay, were often faced with a series of barriers preventing them from [...]
- Serena Sorrentino: “The same workers that have been attacked by policies aimed at making the public sector ‘more efficient’ are now on the frontline in the fight against Covid-19”“Covid-19 has shown us that we do not need to rethink the values of the Italian National Health Service but to implement them, revising the roles of the national and regional governments, and linking health expenditure to the needs of the [...]
- Bangladesh is already living with the consequences of climate changeIn Sundarbans (in Bangladesh, one of the most densely populated countries in the world, as well as one of the country’s worst affected by climate change) a combination of a rising sea level and river erosion is submerging entire villages and [...]
- Julia Mourri: “We want to show the levers that exist to restore the place of the elderly in society”“We often reduce seniors to economic cost or demographic burden. They are spoken of in a very dehumanising way and we wanted to change that by showing them as people in their own right, not just as [...]
- Towards an intergenerational societyOne (accidental and positive) effect of the economic crisis has been that it has led to new intergenerational relations. Young and old help and support each other in the framework of intergenerational living [...]
- Honduras: dance as a school of life“A moment of waltzing: it is timeless, it is a universal language that brings a sense of peace to an otherwise hostile world.”