Good News Notes: “We may never know for sure whether Massive Attack’s Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja is actually Banksy, but what we do know is that the Bristol trip hop band has been holding onto some very rare prints by the street artist. On Friday (October 29), the group let two of these prints go to raise more…
Tag: Malawi
Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Inspired By Plastic-Bag-Eating Goats
Good News Notes: “For Gloria Majiga-Kamoto, her great awakening to plastic pollution started with goats. She was working for a local environmental nongovernmental organization in her native Malawi with a program that gave goats to rural farmers. The farmers would use the goats’ dung to produce low-cost, high-quality organic fertilizer. The problem? The thin plastic…
A Canada charity gave $7,500 to homeless people, here’s what happened
Good News Notes: “A Canadian project studying the impact of giving cash directly to homeless people told the CBC on Thursday their findings were ;beautifully surprising.’ The New Leaf Project, a program of Foundations for Social Change, a Vancouver-based charity, began in 2018, and awarded a group of Lower Mainland homeless people a cash payment of…
Latter-day Saint Charities has given $2.3 billion since 1985, report says
Good News Notes: “Latter-day Saint Charities helped millions of people through more than 3,000 humanitarian aid projects with 2,000 partners in 142 countries last year, according to its 2019 Annual Report. The report reflected increases from 2018, when the charity completed 2,885 projects in 141 countries. Monday’s report did not say how much money was distributed during…