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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia · Saudi Food Bank (Etaam)

Founded in Dammam in 2012 as the first food bank in the Gulf, Etaam runs refrigerated trucks and production lines that turned 245,972 fresh meals from waste into food for 9,118 families.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · HANDS Welfare Foundation

HANDS reports 5,380 villages declared open-defecation-free through its work, alongside constructed wetlands that clean toilet wastewater and school WASH clubs run by students.

🇬🇪 Georgia · Green Pole

Volunteers in Tbilisi are hand-building low-cost sensors to fill the gaps in Georgia's threadbare state air-monitoring network, one rooftop at a time.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Un Salto de Vida

The waterfall at El Salto once drew honeymooners; industrial discharge turned it into a wall of chemical foam, and every one of 178 residents tested had heavy metals in their body.

🇵🇷 Puerto Rico · Casa Pueblo

After Hurricane Maria, an Adjuntas community group made its solar-powered building an 'energy oasis' for dialysis machines and medicine fridges, then built a community-owned microgrid for the town.

🇻🇺 Vanuatu · Respond Global

A converted 32-metre ship, HELPR-1, sails to Vanuatu's outer islands to install off-grid solar at health centres that never had reliable power.

🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea · Kokoda Track Foundation

At Kokoda College, reachable only by air or on foot, a solar mini-grid now runs a new IT lab, lights the classrooms and dorms, and even powers the campus aid post, and a second mini-grid is planned for a clinic that serves 7,000 patients a year.

🇺🇬 Uganda · Kisiizi Hospital

A Church of Uganda mission hospital in the Kigezi highlands has run its wards on its own waterfall's hydropower since 1958, and sells the spare electricity to roughly 400 neighbours.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Mela for Her

Mela, whose name means 'solution' in Amharic, employs Ethiopian women to handcraft reusable pads and period underwear and sells them door to door through 179 women agents.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Freetown City Council

The women who sell produce in Freetown's open-air markets stand in direct sun all day and watch their stock rot by afternoon — so the city's heat officer built them roofs.

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan · Almaty Air Initiative

Almaty Air Initiative, a private foundation set up in 2024, secret-shops vehicle inspections and tests fuel at the city's biggest petrol stations to show where the smog comes from.

🇪🇨 Ecuador · Unión de Afectados y Afectadas por las Operaciones Petroleras de Texaco (UDAPT)

Nine girls from Ecuador's oil country won a 2021 court order to shut down the open gas flares burning beside their homes, and five years on they are still fighting to make the state obey.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Projeto Saúde & Alegria

A Santarém nonprofit has put solar-powered water pumps into about 30 Tapajós river communities, and trains Indigenous 'Eletricistas do Sol' to keep them running.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Loowatt MG

In Antananarivo, Loowatt MG's waterless toilets seal waste in a liner under the floor so crews can haul it away to be turned into biogas and fertiliser.

🇨🇿 Czechia · Arnika

A Prague-based watchdog whose lab testing of toxic chemicals in everyday products has driven Czech and EU-wide policy change.

🇵🇾 Paraguay · Proyecto Respira

After weeks of wildfire smoke blanketed Paraguay in 2024, an engineer and a women-led coding community launched the country's first AI air-quality forecast for Asunción, open source and free on Telegram.

🇬🇷 Greece · City of Athens

If your flat has no air conditioning and the night never drops below 30°C, the useful thing a city can give you is a cool room to sit in — and Athens counted 35,000 visits.

🇧🇮 Burundi · ADISCO (Appui au Développement Intégral et à la Solidarité sur les Collines)

ADISCO organizes Burundian smallholders into cooperatives and health mutuals so coffee farming builds lasting prosperity, not just export revenue.

🌍 Global · Institute for Transportation and Development Policy

A metro costs a decade and a fortune; a well-designed busway can open in two years, and ITDP has helped 120 cities work out which one they need.

🇨🇦 Canada · The Period Purse

Volunteers at Period Purse packing parties stuff zip bags with pads, tampons and liners, and lit up 70 Canadian landmarks red for Menstrual Health Day.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Ciclocidade

São Paulo's cyclists count themselves — at ten points across the city — because nobody else was counting.

🇵🇰 Pakistan · Pakistan Air Quality Initiative (PAQI)

A citizen-scientist network put Pakistan's invisible smog on the map, one low-cost monitor at a time.

🇮🇹 Italy · Cittadini per l'Aria

A Milan-founded network turns ordinary residents into air-quality researchers, then takes City Hall to court over the pollution the data reveals.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · MoveGreen

A youth-founded Kyrgyz NGO turned Bishkek's invisible smog into real-time public data, then built a region-wide coalition to act on it.

🇹🇭 Thailand · Thailand Clean Air Network (Thailand CAN)

A citizen network of scientists and activists drafted Thailand's own Clean Air Act, and in 2025 got it through parliament's lower house without a single vote against.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong · Clean Air Network

Hong Kong's only dedicated air-pollution NGO has spent over 15 years turning smog data into policy wins that let the city breathe easier.

🇧🇬 Bulgaria · Za Zemiata (Environmental Association / Friends of the Earth Bulgaria)

Za Zemiata's research and advocacy helped drive Sofia's low-emission zone, slashing the number of high-polluting cars entering the city center within months of enforcement.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · ClientEarth

Environmental lawyers who take governments and corporations to court — and have helped stop or shut down coal plants across Europe.

🌍 Global · Modern Energy Cooking Services

Around 2.1 billion people still cook over fire, and the usual fix is a slightly better stove — this programme argues the answer is an electric pressure cooker.

🇧🇪 Belgium · NGO Shipbreaking Platform

A European shipowner can sell a worn-out vessel to a cash buyer, watch it be renamed and reflagged mid-voyage, and never legally have sent anything to a beach in South Asia.

🇹🇱 Timor-Leste · Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste (Timor-Leste Red Cross, CVTL)

Timor-Leste's own Red Cross has pre-agreed, pre-funded flood actions for six villages, so seed-saving drums, mosquito nets and first-aid kits are already in place before the river rises.

🇳🇵 Nepal · Cycle City Network Nepal

Cyclists who met monthly at Basantapur Durbar Square kept pushing until Lalitpur painted the valley's first bike lane — and the counts went up.

🇩🇴 Dominican Republic · Dominican Red Cross (Cruz Roja Dominicana)

A forecast of 100 mm of rain in two days is the tripwire that releases pre-funded Dominican Red Cross aid to families before a tropical storm lands.

🇸🇱 Sierra Leone · Eco-Soap Bank

Discarded hotel soap bars that would otherwise go straight to landfill are sanitized, reprocessed and given to families who can't afford basic hygiene products.

🇳🇱 Netherlands · Energiesprong

A prefabricated facade is craned onto an old Dutch housing block, and by the end of the week the flats inside need almost no heating at all.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Health of Mother Earth Foundation

Some Niger Delta villages have not known a fully dark night in sixty years, because the gas flare at the end of the road never goes out.

🇱🇷 Liberia · FACE Africa

A Liberian-founded nonprofit builds wells, latrines and rainwater systems while training women-majority water committees across rural Liberia.

🇬🇹 Guatemala · FUNDAECO

Protects Guatemalan forests while delivering health and education to rural women and communities.

🇭🇹 Haiti · EarthSpark International

A Haiti-focused nonprofit builds solar-powered microgrids that bring 24/7 metered electricity — and a feminist approach to energy access — to rural towns cut off from the national grid.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Dhaka North City Corporation

Dhaka North appointed Asia's first chief heat officer for a city of fifteen million where the people most exposed to heat are the ones living under corrugated metal.

🇧🇪 Belgium · Filter Café Filtré Atelier

Instead of going for their usual Friday coffee, a group of Brussels parents closed the road outside their children's school — and then kept doing it.

🌍 Global · Pure Earth

A backyard where car batteries are melted down looks like nothing at all — which is why roughly a billion children carry lead in their blood and almost nobody is looking for the source.

🇰🇪 Kenya · Flone Initiative

After women were stripped at Nairobi bus stages, a group started training the matatu crews themselves rather than only condemning them.

🇿🇦 South Africa · FoodForward SA

South Africa's largest food redistribution network rescues surplus food from farms and retailers and turns it into millions of meals for people going hungry.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Work for a Better Bangladesh Trust

In a city where most journeys are made on foot, WBB Trust went out and measured how much of Dhaka simply has no pavement.

🇫🇷 France · Règles Élémentaires

Supermarket collection drives run by volunteers in towns across France feed a national stockpile of pads and tampons that goes to people who cannot afford them.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Gardens for Health International

In Rwanda's health centers, families identified as malnourished are trained to grow their own vegetables instead of waiting on food aid.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Dream Renewables

At Jantuakrom, nurses who once delivered babies by torchlight now run a vaccine fridge on a 3.6 kW rooftop array that four local trainees helped install and still maintain.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Gift of the Givers Foundation

Founded by Imtiaz Sooliman in 1992, South Africa's largest disaster-relief NGO drills boreholes, runs desalination plants, and trucks millions of litres of water to communities in crisis across Africa and beyond.

🇰🇭 Cambodia · Water For Cambodia

Water For Cambodia's Siem Reap team has built or renovated over 2,500 latrines, and in 2025 gave seven schools girl-friendly toilets with bins, locks and emergency period kits.

🇺🇸 United States · GirlTrek

A grassroots health movement that has mobilized more than a million Black women across the US to walk daily for their physical, mental and community health.

🇮🇳 India · Care for Air

A volunteer-driven Delhi non-profit that turned parental worry over toxic winters into a Supreme Court petition and a citywide clean-air education movement.

🌍 Global · Grassroot Soccer

Grassroot Soccer turns soccer practice into a curriculum for HIV prevention, mental health and reproductive health education for adolescents across the developing world.

🇸🇿 Eswatini · Guba

Guba teaches Swazi families to turn small homesteads into thriving, chemical-free food gardens that boost nutrition and income.

🇨🇴 Colombia · Cuerpo Colegiado de Guardianes del Río Atrato (Comisión de Guardianes del Río Atrato)

Fourteen community-elected guardians from the Chocó rainforest co-represent the Atrato River's legal rights after mercury from illegal mining poisoned it.

🇬🇹 Guatemala · Guatemalan Red Cross (Cruz Roja Guatemalteca)

A 60 percent chance of a tropical storm in Guatemala's warning zone is enough to release multipurpose cash to flood-exposed families 3 to 5 days early.

🇬🇹 Guatemala · HELPS International

A Texas-based nonprofit whose Guatemalan-manufactured ONIL stove has cut deadly indoor smoke for hundreds of thousands of Mayan households.

🇭🇹 Haiti · Haiti Outreach

Instead of handing out toilets, Haiti Outreach's Haitian coaches get villagers around Hinche to dig and build their own latrines, with a 9-month push that began in June 2026.

🇦🇹 Austria · HEMAYAT - Betreuungszentrum für Folter- und Kriegsüberlebende

Since 1995, Hemayat has offered free interpreter-supported psychotherapy in Vienna to survivors of torture and war, one of the few services of its kind in Austria.

🇭🇳 Honduras · Honduran Red Cross (Cruz Roja Hondureña)

When forecasters see a tropical storm 3 to 5 days out, Honduran Red Cross volunteers are pre-cleared to hand out cash and 72-hour water kits before the rivers rise.

🇦🇺 Australia · Indigenous Marathon Foundation

Every year, twelve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander runners train for six months to complete the New York City Marathon, then return home as certified community health leaders.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · Jamaica Red Cross

Days before Category 5 Hurricane Melissa hit in October 2025, the Jamaica Red Cross unlocked J$16 million to stock shelters in eight parishes.

🇯🇲 Jamaica · HerFlow Foundation

A Jamaican foundation that started by supplying three schools now reaches more than 300 schools, government homes and clinics with free period products and period education.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · City of Kigali

Twice a month Kigali shuts its main roads to cars and fills them with runners, cyclists and free blood-pressure checks.

🇷🇼 Rwanda · Kosmotive

Kosmotive, founded in Kigali in 2014, sews reusable KosmoPads that its site says have prevented 7,200 tons of plastic waste.

🇨🇩 DR Congo · WASARU (Water and Sanitation in Rural and Urban Areas)

In a megacity of more than 17 million people with almost no public air data, a Congolese sanitation NGO is installing the country's only open real-time PM2.5 network and taking the readings into classrooms.

🇰🇮 Kiribati · Kiribati Family Health Association (KFHA)

Kiribati's leading sexual and reproductive health charity keeps family planning, HIV testing, and counselling running from Tarawa's clinics to the outer islands.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Koalisi Pejalan Kaki

A crash that killed eight people on a Jakarta pavement turned a handful of angry pedestrians into a national coalition.

🇲🇽 Mexico · Liga Peatonal

Mexican pedestrian collectives wrote themselves a charter of rights, then held a national congress every year to make cities honour it.

🇲🇬 Madagascar · Masontsika

Masontsika's Bazary model lets villagers rent solar lamps, charge phones and chill food at a health centre, and that income pays for the clinic's own power to run free.

🇲🇼 Malawi · Malawi Initiative for Clean Air Solutions (MIfCAS)

A Ghanaian-led citizen-science team has put 24 low-cost monitors in 11 Malawian districts and now the weekly government air bulletin runs on their data.

🇲🇾 Malaysia · CERAH Anti-Haze Action

When Malaysia dropped its proposed transboundary haze law, an anti-haze coalition filed a human-rights complaint that ended up as a national commission report titled Silent Enemy.

🇲🇱 Mali · Mali Red Cross (Croix-Rouge malienne)

In Mali's Mopti region the Red Cross acted when the Bani River passed 633 cm at Sofara, handing out sandbags and shovels and broadcasting warnings in Bamana and French before the floodwater peaked.

🇲🇽 Mexico · World Resources Institute

Heat is not evenly distributed across a city — one block can be ten degrees hotter than another — and until recently nobody could show a mayor exactly which block.

🇧🇷 Brazil · Hutukara Associação Yanomami

Illegal gold miners use mercury to bind the gold, the rivers carry it into the fish, and the Yanomami eat the fish — so the association measured its own people's hair to prove it.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia · Menged Le Sew

Addis Ababa closes 29 road corridors to cars one Sunday a month, and the crowd that fills them has grown every year since 2019.

🇲🇳 Mongolia · Local Solutions

Where winter drops below -30C and the Mongolian word for toilet is itself taboo, Local Solutions has helped install 1,150 dry toilets and opened the country's first Toilet Education Center on World Toilet Day 2025.

🇱🇷 Liberia · Clean Air Liberia (United Methodist University)

A Liberian university team earned global recognition as one of just seven projects worldwide to change national air policy in 2025, with a PM2.5 network where none existed.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Mozambique Red Cross Society (Cruz Vermelha de Moçambique)

When Cyclone Gezani bore down on Inhambane in February 2026, Mozambican Red Cross volunteers were already reinforcing houses and schools with pre-positioned materials, days before the wind arrived.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM)

Mozambique's BLAZE project bolts low-cost PM2.5 sensors onto hospitals and health centres in Maputo, Matola and Boane so doctors can finally see the air their patients breathe.

🇸🇬 Singapore · World Toilet Organization

Founded by Jack Sim, known as Mr. Toilet, this Singapore nonprofit created World Toilet Day, later recognised by the UN General Assembly in 2013, and runs a World Toilet College that trained over 5,000 people in India in its first 24 months.

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · National Energy Action

In one of the richest countries in the world, millions of people ration their heating — and this charity has spent forty years arguing that is a policy choice.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Ndlovu Care Group

A Dutch doctor's rural clinic in Limpopo grew into a healthcare, education, and community-development group whose youth choir went on to captivate audiences on America's Got Talent.

🇳🇮 Nicaragua · El Porvenir

In rural Nicaragua El Porvenir pairs every new piped water system with a double-pit latrine per household and hygiene lessons, so water and toilets arrive together.

🇳🇬 Nigeria · Pad-Up Creations

A factory in Minna, Niger State, stitches washable period kits that women sales agents now carry to 21 African countries.

🇹🇭 Thailand · EnLAWTHAI Foundation

A lead processing plant flushed its waste into the creek a Karen village drank from, and every one of the village's 221 residents was poisoned. Winning took nineteen years.

🇦🇺 Australia · Sweltering Cities

Australian rentals must have a working smoke alarm but not a bearable temperature, so a home can legally hit 40°C inside and the tenant has no recourse.

🇫🇷 France · Association Respire

French clean-air association Respire helped push Paris to 279 car-free or calmed streets outside schools, and in 2026 celebrated forcing Suez to drop an incinerator project at Istres.

🇸🇸 South Sudan · Energy Peace Partners

Renewable energy certificates normally reward the cheapest possible megawatt; these ones only count if they are generated somewhere at war.

🇵🇱 Poland · Fundacja Akcja Menstruacja

A foundation from Lubin stocks free menstrual product boxes in school toilets, and its schools programme now covers 1,044 schools across Poland.

🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan · Red Crescent Society of Kyrgyzstan

On 15 July 2025 the Kyrgyz Red Crescent acted on a temperature forecast days ahead of a heatwave, delivering hygiene kits, food parcels and kits for children's stress to 15,000 people in the south before the peak hit.

🇹🇯 Tajikistan · Red Crescent Society of Tajikistan

In Tajikistan's mountains, the Red Crescent has already stored window insulation, floor insulation and electric heaters for 1,233 households, ready to ship the day a deadly cold wave is forecast.

🇬🇭 Ghana · Clean Team Ghana

Clean Team Ghana rents families in Kumasi a private in-home toilet and sends a Ghanaian crew to swap the sealed waste container for a clean one every week.

🇺🇬 Uganda · SPOUTS International

A Kampala social enterprise fires clay into ceramic filters so Ugandan households can stop boiling water over smoky charcoal fires.

🇸🇻 El Salvador · CoCoDA

In El Zapote, Suchitoto, 96 solar panels now run the community well system that supplies more than 2,500 families.

🇸🇳 Senegal · DELVIC Sanitation Initiatives

DELVIC, a Senegalese company, manages faecal sludge treatment plants for the national sanitation office and runs a 24/7 emergency desludging call centre.

🇧🇹 Bhutan · Bhutan Foundation

The Bhutan Foundation works with yak-herding communities in the high Jomolhari region to protect one of the world's most secretive big cats while easing the human-wildlife conflict that threatens both people and predators.

🇧🇯 Benin · Solar Electric Light Fund

You can ship all the vaccines you like to a clinic with no electricity; without a fridge that works, none of them survive the journey.

🇨🇲 Cameroon · Renewable Energy Innovators Cameroon (REI-Cameroon)

Solar minigrids are bringing round-the-clock power to off-grid Cameroonian villages that the national electricity grid has never reached.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Anera

Anera put 219 solar panels and 24 lithium batteries on 14 struggling community and health centers in Lebanon, cutting their average monthly electricity bill by 46%.

🇳🇵 Nepal · SunFarmer

A nonprofit solar finance organization installs solar power for hospitals, clinics, schools, and farms across rural Nepal, replacing unreliable grid power and diesel.

🇲🇿 Mozambique · Alongside Hope

At Muripotana Health Centre in Nampula, a midwife who once began every night shift in darkness and could not admit patients now has lights, a fetal Doppler and phone charging from a wall-mounted solar box.

🌍 Global · We Care Solar

A Berkeley nonprofit equips last-mile health clinics with rugged 'Solar Suitcase' kits, giving midwives reliable light and power to safely deliver babies after dark.

🇸🇸 South Sudan · South Sudan Red Cross Society

After four straight record flood seasons displaced an estimated 1.5 million South Sudanese, the national Red Cross has pre-agreed funds to act two months ahead along the White Nile and the Sudd wetland.

🇪🇸 Spain · Ecologistas en Accion

Every year this confederation of Spanish local ecologist groups publishes the country's independent air-quality tally, and 2025's showed 33 million people breathing air above the EU's 2030 limits.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka · Federation for Environment, Climate and Technology (FECT)

A Sri Lankan non-profit think tank runs cleanair.lk, a trilingual portal that publishes a fresh air-quality ranking of the country's towns every single week from low-cost sensors.

🇵🇭 Philippines · EcoWaste Coalition

Grown out of the campaign that won the Philippines' Clean Air Act, this coalition now battles the backyard trash fires that keep filling Filipino neighborhoods with toxic smoke.

🇹🇿 Tanzania · ELICO Foundation (Energy and Livelihoods for Communities)

A Dar es Salaam non-profit has put solar power into rural health facilities serving more than 584,000 patients, so ultrasound machines, lab kit and vaccine fridges stop going dark.

🇵🇭 Philippines · BAN Toxics

Small-scale gold miners handle mercury because it works and they were never shown anything else — so the argument that changed minds was not health, it was that gravity methods recover more gold.

🇵🇭 Philippines · Manila Water Foundation

Manila Water Foundation says it has led the installation of over 300 multi-faucet hand-hygiene stations in Philippine schools and public institutions, many with ten taps so a whole class can wash at once.

🇵🇪 Peru · Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense

For decades the smelter at La Oroya put so much lead, arsenic and sulphur dioxide into the air that children's blood tested above safe limits almost universally — and in 2024 an international court finally said the state was responsible.

🇨🇳 China · Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE)

A Beijing NGO turned government smokestack data into a public app that lets millions of citizens see who's polluting their air.

🇿🇦 South Africa · The Chaeli Campaign

Founded by a nine-year-old wheelchair user who asked her community to fund one, the Chaeli Campaign now runs inclusive early-childhood, arts, and advocacy programmes for thousands of South African children with disabilities.

🇳🇵 Nepal · The Cookstove Project

A small US nonprofit building smokeless brick-and-steel cookstoves with rural Nepali families to replace smoky open fires.

🇮🇳 India · Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation

A 2010 heatwave killed more than a thousand people in Ahmedabad in a week. The plan the city wrote afterwards now saves roughly that many lives every year.

🇩🇪 Germany · Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH)

A nature-and-consumer group founded in 1975 has sued dozens of German cities into enforcing nitrogen-dioxide limits, and its clean-air case has now been referred to the European Court of Justice.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · Young Power in Social Action

Dead ships are run at full speed onto the beach at Chattogram and cut up where they lie, by men with blowtorches standing in asbestos and oil residue.

🇮🇹 Italy · Genitori Tarantini

In the Tamburi district of Taranto, families were told to keep children indoors on windy days, because the wind carries iron dust off the slag heaps of the steelworks next door.

🇿🇲 Zambia · Environment Africa

The mine at Kabwe closed in 1994 and was never cleaned up, so children play on tailings and more than nine in ten of them have lead in their blood.

🇺🇸 United States · Alaska Institute for Justice

Thawing permafrost, vanished sea ice and storms with nothing to break them are taking Alaska Native villages house by house — and no US agency has the job of relocating a community.

🇨🇱 Chile · Mujeres de Zonas de Sacrificio en Resistencia Quintero-Puchuncaví

Chile zoned this bay for the industry nobody wanted anywhere else, then acted surprised when schoolchildren started collapsing — so the mothers took the phrase 'sacrifice zone' and made it the state's problem.

🇪🇸 Spain · Ayuntamiento de Sevilla

Hurricanes get names and people take them seriously. Heat kills more Europeans and arrives anonymously — so Seville started naming it.

🇲🇼 Malawi · Theatre for a Change

Interactive drama is helping Malawian teachers and girls take control of their sexual and reproductive health in a country where a third of girls are pregnant by 18.

🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina · Eko akcija

Eko akcija runs Bosnia and Herzegovina's citizen air-quality monitoring network and pushes Sarajevo's government to tackle the wood-and-coal smog that chokes the city each winter.

🇹🇷 Türkiye · Temiz Hava Hakki Platformu

A coalition of health and nature groups won a Council of State ruling in September 2026 halting a rule that could have exempted coal plants, steel mills and cement works from pollution standards.

🇿🇦 South Africa · Ubuntu Pathways

One integrated campus in Zwide township delivers healthcare, schooling, and family support to 2,000 vulnerable children so poverty stops with their generation.

🇮🇳 India · Warrior Moms

Five worried Delhi mothers turned lockdown blue skies into a pan-India movement demanding clean air for every child.

🇮🇩 Indonesia · Cool Roofs Indonesia

The cheapest air conditioner is a tin of highly reflective paint on the roof, and an Indonesian university team proved it could drop indoor temperatures by ten degrees.

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · Kgotso Development Trust

With no public government PM2.5 data in Zimbabwe, a community trust founded in 2013 has been quietly planting low-cost sensors from Harare to Beitbridge and is now funded to build the country's first real-time network.

🇿🇦 South Africa · groundWork Friends of the Earth South Africa

groundWork's #DeadlyAir lawsuit forced South Africa's courts to declare toxic Mpumalanga Highveld air a violation of the constitutional right to a healthy environment.

🇦🇹 Austria · neunerhaus

neunerhaus gives Vienna's homeless a home first, then the healthcare, jobs training and vet care for their pets that make staying housed possible.