A weekly table tennis session at HMP High Down improves behaviour, provides coaching skills – and boosts confidence
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On a Good Note: August 31, 2019
In this edition: A weekly game of ping pong in a U.K. prison is helping prisoners turn the tables on violence and reoffending. Plus, meet the Baltimore woman who designed a comic-book-themed funeral program. And, a company powering blood donations in Nigeria through Google Maps.
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As soon as she heard that a 4-year-old Baltimore boy had been found in a dumpster, Shawnie O’Neal knew she had to do something. The West Baltimore native makes her living designing memorial programs, particularly for the untimely deaths wrought by Baltimore’s violence. She decided to create a …
“Our motto is: ‘Follow soccer, see the world.’” Every week, The Friendship Files features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship. This week she talks with two men who have a tradition of taking an annual …
Lagos, Nigeria CNN — Joseph Kalu makes his way on his motorbike past the frustrated motorists blaring their car horns in the heavy traffic in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial nerve center. He is snaking his way through traffic to a hospital in Ikeja, a district in the gridlocked megaccity with an …
The idea of a sponge city is simple – rather than using concrete to channel away rainwater, you work with nature to absorb, clean and use the …