T is for Toybank: Giving Back The Right To Childhood

Toybank is a non-profit organisation that aims to provide toys to all children. It vision is a world where all children have a happy and healthy childhood.

Below are excerpts from its Read more

K is for Kanchi: Unleashing The Abilities Of People With Disabilities

Kanchi is a social enterprise that works to unleash the abilities of the one billion people in the world with a disability.

Below are excerpts from its website. You can discover more via the Read more

D is for Bryan Dik: Finding And Following Your Calling

During the past 50 years many people have focused on helping others to find or create meaningful work.

The pioneers have included Bernard Haldane, Frank Parsons, Richard Bolles and many others. Many Read more

L is for Liberation Chocolate: Rehabilitating Child Soldiers

Sheikh A. Turay founded Liberation Chocolate in Liberia. Below are excerpts from its website. You can discover more via the following link.

http://liberationchocolate.com/

About

It’s a story of unbelievable hardship, courage, horror, inspiration, Read more

P is for Positive Psychology

Martin Seligman is recognised as one of the key figures in the growth of positive psychology. In the video above he gives an introduction to the approach.

His work led to creating the Positive Read more

M is for Maggie’s Centres: Empowering People With Cancer

The video above gives a short introduction to the centres. Here is some more information from the organisation’s web site. You can discover more at:

http://www.maggiescentres.org/home.html

Background

Maggie Keswick Jencks was the co-founder, Read more

T is for Robert Thurman: Being Joyful, Even If They Kill You

Robert describes how it is vital to be positive. You are then more likely to spread happiness around you.

Some people are so full of angst, he says, that they create bad vibes around Read more

Prostate Awareness 14: A Second Operation Clearing Things Up Using HIFU

Mark Emberton operated on me yesterday to clear up some of the illness that was remaining. This time they used the HIFU approach.

Many men now want HIFU and there is a Read more

T is for Trash To Cash

Madhmita Puri’s favourite words are reputed to be ‘I have an idea’. She translated these into action when founding Trash to Cash. The video above is from a talk she gave at a session Read more

U is for William Ury: Solving Conflicts

William Ury has a vast background in negotiation and believes it is possible to solve virtually any conflict.

He has written many books on the topic including, with Roger Fisher, the best selling Getting Read more