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This week marked a major milestone in global public health, with the World Health Organization declaring the
Africa region free from the wild poliovirus.

This achievement was reached thanks to the
tireless efforts of international organizations, charities, and healthcare workers who found their way—at times, canoeing for hours—to areas that had previously been inaccessible, as contributor Tara Haelle describes in her story. More stories about breakthroughs and hope below.

In the
Upside, one woman beats the odds to launch a successful business and another gives America a taste of her heritage.

In Up-And-Coming, an artist is using computer software to identify emotions which we cannot name, and a new production company aims to tell diverse stories.

In
Uplifting, a gay fairytale is rescued from the shadows of history and a Scottish brewery becomes carbon negative.

Finally, in the
Wrap-up, the numbers making a difference this week are 7, 20, and 1,000.

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Sofia Lotto Persio

Assistant Editor Forbes Europe

The Upside

 
Sew It Yourself
 
 
 
Sew It Yourself
 

She’s been a teenage runaway and a homeless single mother, but Mimi Goodwin beats the odds using her creativity and skills at the sewing machine to beat the odds stacked against her and create a million-dollar business. Four years since its launch, Sew It Academy offers over seventy courses, covering menswear, womenswear, childrenswear, pattern making, draping, fitting, and sketching.

How She Did It
 
Tastes Like Home
 
 
 
Tastes Like Home
 

Catalina Bentz was only three years old when she moved with her parents from Chile to the U.S. Little did her family know, three decades later their child would launch Catan Pisco, the first American Pisco brand and first female-owned pisco brand in the history of Chile.

Getting The Job Done

The Up-And-Coming

 
Searching For Emotions
 
 
 
Searching For Emotions
 

Humans express more emotions that they can actually name. Dutch Artist Coralie Vogelaar is challenging our current understanding of feelings by enlisting an actor to reproduce emotions as commanded by a computer programme—with mystifying results: machines can “help us to visually find an emotion we don’t have a word for yet,” Vogelaar says.

How It Works
 
Reality Check
 
 
 
Reality Check
 

Lauren Grace Media, a new production company helmed by two veteran reality television executives, has a clear mission: To tell diverse stories that people of color can relate to. The company’s first project is a 90-minute special titled Race in America: A Movement Not a Moment, featuring an in-depth discussion on issues of racism between reality stars.

Find Out More

The Uplifting

 
Happy Ending
 
 
 
Happy Ending
 

An ancient love story. An evil censor. A rescue mission. These are all elements of the gripping tale of how “The Dog and the Sailor” fairytale was rediscovered after it had been erased from English folklore due to its LGBTQ content. It’s now been reedited and illustrated for a whole new generation to enjoy.

Why It Matters
 
Brew No Evil
 
 
 
Brew No Evil
 

Scottish multinational brewery and pub chain Brewdog said it achieved carbon negative status—the first for a beer business—thanks to a £30 million investment plan funding a series of unprecedented green infrastructure projects, from the purchase of a forest to wastewater recycling, to remove carbon from the atmosphere.

Cheers To That

The Wrap-up

7 - years it took the nonprofit Monumental Women to see a Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument unveiled in Central Park—the first to feature real women (as opposed to fictional ones) in New York’s green heart.

20
- cost of bracelets (in dollars) whose sales enabled 4ocean to remove at least one pound of plastic from beaches across the world—the company has collected 10 million pounds of plastic in the past three years.

1,000 - miles covered by a non-binary parent and their child in a bike ride across the U.K. support of trangender rights.

"It doesn't matter that you're not the star; it matters that you're part of the constellation."

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