Not one but two National Heroes Stadiums are packed to maximum capacity. Over 120,000 Zambians waiting for the game to start, with thousands more queuing to get in. The catch? There is no game. Not for 4% of the nation’s children below the age of 5, whose bodies are literally wasting away in one of the most resource-rich countries in the world. Starving children filling Zambia’s great stadium 2.1 times over. If they survive, they will join 32% of their countrymen whose physical growth and cogniti...

Poor literacy rates in Zambia are a ticking timebomb. Zambia has the 8th youngest population in the world, with 52.6% (roughly 11 million) below the age of 18. Half of these youths are unlikely to complete school because they live in rural areas, and according to the World Bank Learning Poverty Brief, of the students who are in school, barely any of them will be able to read properly by the time they leave primary school.
Zambia’s young population has put an enormous strain o...

How a Zambian start-up is using quick curriculum-aligned quizzes to tackle one of Africa’s most challenging classroom realities.With the average student to teacher ratio in Zambia roughly 50 to 1, and even higher in rural settings with little or no access to modern technology, a teacher’s ability to adequately assess and address their learners’ progress is a constant, uphill struggle. According to the World Bank Poverty Brief, up to 99% of Zambian learners are still illiterate at the age of 10,...

For Faren Kudzai-Sakupwanya and Tryphena Nkana Mwelwa, the journey to healing from abuse has been long and winding, and shrouded by a pain so intense they struggled to live through it all. Yet today, these incredible women stand tall not just as victorious survivors, but empowered visionaries leading the charge to end the cycle of gender-based violence (GBV) and abuse gripping the nation.According to the Zambia Police Service, 10,231 GBV cases were filed in the first quarter of 2026 alone, 37% o...

On Croatia’s sunny coast, where over 20 million tourists flock each year to pristine beaches, a quiet village tells a different story. In Kaštel Lukšić, yoga teacher Anita Maleš and her husband Ante have made an unusual choice: rather than renting out their second home for profit, they’ve given it away — to their spiritual community, free of charge.The result is Kokoro Home, a gathering place built on the Japanese concept of kokoro, the connection between heart, mind, and soul. As the home takes...

Dicmo, Croatia. Retired architect and designer Božo Kokan (74) spent decades collecting stone fragments scattered across his village fields. Years later, he discovered they were remnants of an ancient victory arch for the revered 2nd century Roman Emperor Marcus Ulpius Traianus, popularly knows as Trajan, that once stood on his ancestral land.

Dicmo, Croatia. Retired architect and designer Božo Kokan (74) spent decades collecting stone fragments scattered across his village fields. Years later,...

Croatia’s high safety rankings, Adriana said, are also a growing attraction.“I was driving to the supermarket in Croatia around 9.30 in the evening when I saw a few girls walking on their own in the dark, and I was like, how cool is that? I wouldn’t do that in Germany.”Although she has definite plans to take the leap, financial security remains complicated.“The ideal plan would be having a German job with a German salary and living in Croatia. I know that [Croatian] jobs are sadly not well paid,...