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Seeing like a local....

Rosemary Cairns

Practical neighbour to neighbour problem-solving for our world

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The doctors prescribing housing

Dunn House, Canada’s first hospital-led supportive housing initiative for patients experiencing homelessness, has been awarded a Governor General’s Innovation Award for 2026.

And when Governor General Louise Arbour came to Toronto to see i...

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‘Help given by neighbours’

On the early American frontier, many women sewed quilt squares during the winter. In spring, they joined neighbours in quilting bees to join the squares together while sharing news, recipes and life-saving information.

The quilting frames...

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Sticking to pavement and avoiding shortcuts

Since listening to a fascinating interview on The Current about the 10 stories we find ourselves telling often, I have been wondering what my 10 might be.

And I realized that one of them is about land mines.

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I brought a plant to a woman after surgery….

When I worked on community mobilization in a USAID-funded project in western Serbia two decades ago, developing ‘community social service projects’ was a challenge because of the perceptual divide between villagers and the experts in social...

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Nonna empowerment

Grandmothers (and the occasional grandfather) are breaking the mould of retirement.

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    Exploring how local people identify and solve problems and share their solutions worldwide. Publishes at Hopebuilding.blog and Seeing like a local on Substack.

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