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Dylan Raines retweeted
Rescued in February with a dislocated jaw and unable to feed himself, a fishing cat in Bangladesh is now back in the wild, wearing a satellite collar. Patient care can give a wild life a second chance. 🐾 thehumanfamily.org/p/banglad…
ALT Fishing cats resting together, a file photo of the species, not the cat released in Bangladesh
What does care look like before anything goes wrong?
In Bhutan, early warnings moved people to safety ahead of a glacial lake flood. That kind of quiet preparation rarely makes headlines, but it's one of the truest ways we look after each other.
Listen: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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Everyone keeps asking five-year-olds what they want to be when they grow up.
As if a five-year-old has already filed the paperwork.
Anna’s grandfather had a quieter idea. Take a walk. Ask the baker, the florist, the bookseller why they do their work.
No resume required.
The answers were better than any job title. Also shorter.
A World of Possibilities is out now.
amazon.com/dp/B0HHZZ39SS
What question do you wish someone had asked you at five? (Besides “have you finished your vegetables.”)
Nations have a place to cooperate. Now people everywhere have one too. 🌍
The Human Family is open: meet new friends, share ideas and support charity projects in water, food, education, health and our planet.
Come find your place 👉 thehumanfamily.org
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Dylan Raines retweeted
For four year old Buyan in rural Mongolia, preschool comes to the ger. UNICEF Mongolia's Teacher with a Tablet initiative has reached more than 14,500 children in remote herding communities. 📚
thehumanfamily.org/p/mongoli…
ALT White gers of a nomadic herding family on the open steppe in Western Mongolia (file photo)
Malawi's measles and rubella campaign reached more than 5.8 million children, even in remote island and riverside communities. I keep thinking about the people who made those journeys. Care that goes that far says something good about us.
Listen: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
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What if philanthropy were truly democratic? A question we’re trying to answer at @TheHumanFamily.
It’s like a 100% @charitywater model, expanded to other basic needs, and dependent upon YOU to choose the focus area you want us to devote funds and effort towards.
Join thehumanfamily.org and choose your focus area now.
Today’s Humanitarian Explorer podcast is up. If you want to learn about humanitarian issues and events, all with a bit of hope and informative action, this podcast is for you.
New Humanitarian Explorer: a UN report finds about 252 million hectares of land and water under restoration across 149 countries, plus hopeful news from Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Bangladesh and South Sudan. 🌱
Listen: open.spotify.com/episode/5mb…
More at thehumanfamily.org
ALT Humanitarian Explorer new episode card over a photo of people planting trees. Photo: John Englart / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0
Find it wherever you listen to podcasts: thehumanfamily.org/p/podcast…
This list could be great for finding founders you may not have heard of doing fascinating things. Looking forward to when it comes out.
Introducing Boardy’s List: Who are the Top 100 Founders on X?
Vote for your favourite founders by tagging them in the comments (or you can DM me if you prefer to vote in private).
Every like on your comment counts as a vote.
I want to find more undiscovered talent vs. run a popularity contest, so I’m keeping the leaderboard private until it’s announced.
You have one week to vote.
After that, I’ll announce the winners in partnership with @distributedkv and top lists.
You can vote for as many founders as you like, once per person. You can also vote for yourself and I won’t tell anyone.
Quote tweet this if you want to enter yourself. Every like on your tweet will count as a vote.
A Ghana village's walk for water went from 90 minutes to under 8. Now school starts on time.
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: that story, an Ebola vaccine trial in the DRC, and 80,000 people sheltered before Cyclone Arnab.
open.spotify.com/episode/2vM…
Which one stays with you?
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Amazon deforestation in Brazil just hit its lowest level since records began in 1988.
Also today: safe water reaches 3,000+ people and a school in Afghanistan, and India readies shelters ahead of Cyclone Arnab.
open.spotify.com/episode/2cP…
What gave you hope this week?
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Imagine there were a United Nations type organization for everyone, built like X/twitter, committed to humanitarian endeavors for improving human well-being.
Join here to see what that looks like: thehumanfamily.org
Imagine looking at the sky one early, early morning, and seeing this. Van Gogh was incredible.
"A study published on October 22 in the open-access journal Scientific Reports argues that the painting's sky matches an actual pre-dawn view: a thin waning crescent Moon, the planet Venus, and the Hyades, a V-shaped star cluster in the constellation Taurus, gathered together in the eastern sky around July 22, 1889."
thehumanfamily.org/p/starry-…
If you’ve been trying to build something for a long time, and feel it’s still just a dream ~ keep going.
I think there are unique ideas and dreams we all have which run counter to the current norms of how things should be done. Bringing those things into reality is difficult, but those are also the things our world needs most.
#DreamBig
A nurse was killed answering an Ebola alert in DR Congo. Care is still the bravest work there is.
Today on Humanitarian Explorer: that story, Gaza bakeries closing as food aid is cut, and Typhoon Champi.
open.spotify.com/episode/0Ds…
Who are you holding close today?
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Make things, and make things happen. Don’t allow fear of mistakes, or fear of others may thing, standing in the way of you creating what is within you to make.
Peace usually arrives when we put something down, not when we pick something up.
What's one thing you could set down today?
ALT Still misty lake at dawn with a small wooden rowboat, pines and soft peach sky, with white text: Peace usually arrives when we put something down, not when we pick something up. Signed Dylan Raines.
Five questions about purpose from this week:
What was your last goal for?
What do you keep noticing?
What did your last week say you care about?
What helps when direction goes missing?
What is your community for?
Which is hardest to answer honestly?
ALT Text card: Five questions about purpose from this week: What was your last goal for? What do you keep noticing? What did your last week say you care about? What helps when direction goes missing? What is your community for?