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Estudio Damgo 1 — Dungga Daycare

Foundation University
Valencia, Negros Oriental, Philippines

Architecture students took responsibility from site analysis and community consultation through budgeting and construction, creating a 68-square-metre daycare for 25 children and one teacher.

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Odlot Cemetery Access Road

CITE Technical Institute and collaborating student groups
Bogo City, Cebu, Philippines

Thirty university students and teachers from Metro Manila and Cebu worked together for ten days to build a 100-metre access road from the main highway to the community cemetery.

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Carew Family Centre Community Transformation

Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

More than 180 postgraduate students spent four days planning, organising and physically transforming the outdoor grounds of Carew II Family Centre for local families and community groups.

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Amazon Primary School Classroom Project

Cologne International School
Iquitos / El Chino, Loreto, Peru

Twenty-five students worked with the local community in El Chino to build two primary-school classrooms, 20 desks and 20 chairs, providing furnished classrooms for full-day education.

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Belong Sensory Garden

Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group
Newcastle-under-Lyme, England, United Kingdom

Students from several construction and foundation programmes planned, designed, built and planted a sensory garden for residents of Belong care home.

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Melusi Community Buildings

University of Pretoria
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Architecture students and Melusi residents co-designed and built a satellite youth centre and an addition to a community clinic, providing extra service space and a sheltered patient waiting area.

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Kapiyo Solar Project

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Kapiyo, Kenya

A student-originated project financed solar-panel installation for five off-grid households in Kapiyo, replacing reliance on candles for lighting and helping children study after dark.

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Seats for Change

Somerville Secondary College
Somerville, Victoria, Australia

Year 12 students are restoring 18 garden benches for the Peninsula Health Palliative Care Unit, using woodwork, design, planning and budgeting skills in a real community project.

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Sensory Garden Project

Ascot Vale Heights School
Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia

Students designed and created a sensory garden with tactile plants, aromatic herbs, colourful flowers and sensory pathways, integrating the work into a job-readiness programme.

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Sustainability Communication Community Project

Universiti Sains Malaysia
Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia

Ten communication students worked with Indonesian school students through interactive sessions and SDG-themed activities, building sustainability awareness and communication skills.

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Panchkhola School Sanitation Project

International School Dhaka
Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Grade 8 students raised funds and joined work to provide new sanitation facilities for Panchkhola Primary School, benefiting pupils who needed better toilets.

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TECHO Home Building Project

Santa Cruz Cooperative School
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Student volunteers work with TECHO to help construct homes for families living in poverty in communities around Santa Cruz.

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Homes for School Families

Colegio Fe y Alegría No. 25
Lima, Lima, Peru

Around 120 senior students helped build two prefabricated homes for two families from their own school community, carrying materials, assembling the houses and painting them.

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TECHO Home Building Project

Canadian School Guadalajara
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

Thirty Grade 10–12 students worked with TECHO over two days to build three homes for families in Nueva España after their school community raised funds for the project.

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Chai Primary School Water Well

Light International School Mombasa
Mombasa, Kenya

Students raised US$3,000 and completed a water-well project at Chai Primary School, creating a sustainable water source for the school and wider community.

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H2O for Life Water Projects

The Haverford School
Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States

Second-grade students raised $10,430.55 in 2025–26 for clean-water projects benefiting schools and communities in Uganda, Haiti, Kenya and Ghana.

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Water Crisis Service-Learning Project

Bank Street School for Children
New York, New York, United States

Sixth-grade students raised $5,430 in 2025–26 to support water projects, including Saadani Primary School in Tanzania and water delivery in the United States.

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Nasaruni Academy Bathrooms Project

Christian Academy of Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Students raised $3,000 in 2025–26 for the Nasaruni Academy bathrooms project in Kenya, continuing a multi-year student clean-water and sanitation programme.

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South Sudan Clean Water Project

Twin Oaks Middle School
Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States

Eighth-grade Global Studies students raised $1,690 in 2025–26 toward drilling and installing a well serving a school community in South Sudan.

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South Sudan Clean Water Project

Hidden Oaks Middle School
Prior Lake, Minnesota, United States

Eighth-grade students raised $840 in 2025–26 for a clean-water project serving a school community in South Sudan after studying the global water crisis.

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Clean Water Service-Learning Project

Walnut Creek Middle School
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Sixth-grade students raised $2,583.80 in 2025–26 for clean-water projects benefiting Daries Salaam COG Primary School in Sierra Leone and a school in South Sudan.

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Prathmik Balika Vidhyalaya Jelu Water Project

Salem Hills Elementary
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, United States

Students raised $2,007.88 in 2025–26 for a clean-water project benefiting 70 people at Prathmik Balika Vidhyalaya Jelu in India.

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Interact Clean Water Projects

Enloe High School
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

The student-led Interact Club raised $3,537 in 2025–26 for water projects serving schools and communities in Honduras, Uganda and South Sudan.

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H2O for Life Water Projects

Westridge School for Girls
Pasadena, California, United States

Students raised $12,907 in 2025–26 for water projects benefiting Kakamega High School and Kathungu Primary School in Kenya and Pamin-lok oola in Uganda.

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Walk for Water

Otter Lake Elementary School
White Bear Lake, Minnesota, United States

Students held a Walk for Water to raise funds for a water and sanitation project at St. Mugagga Junior School in Uganda.

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Vietnam Round Square International Service Project

Matthew Flinders Anglican College
Mai Chau, Vietnam

Four Flinders students joined 35 students from other Round Square schools to build an irrigation dam and install 110 solar-powered lights connecting two villages. The students moved about 20 tonnes of rock and hundreds of barrows of concrete.

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Reparaciutat

Centre de Formació Folgado S.L.U.
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Students in welding and boiler-making worked with Paiporta council to restore flood-damaged public furniture, including benches and railings.

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S.T.O.P. Flood Barriers

IES Gonzalo Anaya
Xirivella, Valencian Community, Spain

Mechanical-design and electromechanical students designed and manufactured removable barriers to protect homes against future flooding.

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Benches and Tables for Reconstruction

Centro de F.P. Xabec
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Welding students manufactured durable replacement furniture for Colegio María Inmaculada in Alfafar after the school was badly damaged by flooding.

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Sustainable Mobility and Reconstruction

CIPFP Ciutat de l'Aprenent
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Students fabricated and installed bicycle and scooter parking at educational centres affected by flooding, replacing infrastructure while supporting active travel.

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Stories That Rebuild

IES Sorolla
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain

Early-years education students created and delivered emotional-support activities using children's literature for 2–3-year-olds affected by the floods at Escuela Infantil Niños de Picanya.

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Student Service and Community Projects

International School of Prague
Prague, Prague, Czechia

Students undertake service and leadership projects through Changemakers, Community Projects and upper-school initiatives, using student action to address community needs and support social causes.

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Student Social Purpose Projects

Colegio Menor Samborondón
Samborondón, Guayas, Ecuador

Students lead practical community activities including preparing food baskets, fundraising to help build a school, cleaning beaches and running environmental projects with communities in need.

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Service-Learning Clubs

TOKA Partner Schools
Multiple locations, Kosovo

School-based student clubs identify community problems, plan practical solutions and implement volunteer projects; the programme has created more than 120 clubs across Kosovo.

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VIS Cares Student Service Projects

Vientiane International School
Vientiane, Vientiane Prefecture, Lao PDR

Students propose, plan and carry out projects that must provide a direct, measurable benefit to communities in Laos, with grants and mentoring supporting approved student-led initiatives.

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East Boroko Community Clean-Up

Don Bosco Technological Institute
Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea

Boarding students organised and carried out a community clean-up in East Boroko, giving practical service to the surrounding neighbourhood while promoting student-led servant leadership.

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Mud Bricks for Orphan-Headed Household

Rwamagana Leaders' School
Rwamagana, Eastern Province, Rwanda

Students made nearly 1,000 mud bricks for a nearby orphan-headed household as part of the school's community-service programme, connecting student work with a specific local need.

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Student Community Service Programme

City University of Mogadishu
Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia

Students complete community service through activities including beach and neighbourhood clean-ups, feeding people in need, clothing drives, assisting primary and secondary schools and providing useful expertise to local businesses.

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Community Exchange

Futuraskolan International School of Stockholm
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

Students complete age-linked voluntary service hours addressing a problem or need in the community, giving pupils practical responsibility for contributing beyond the school.

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Youth Growth Project Community Action

Ten Luanshya Schools - Youth Growth Project
Luanshya, Copperbelt Province, Zambia

Learners from ten school clubs took part in practical community service, including cleaning Roan Market, Luanshya CBD and Mpatamatu Market, alongside peer work on mental health, volunteerism and responsible citizenship.

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Accessibility & Inclusion Projects

Al-Ahliyya and Al-Mutran School
Amman, Jordan

Grade 5 students developed projects focused on accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities, with Accessible Jordan participating in the exhibition and reviewing the work.

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Ginga-dori Shopping Street Vitality UP Project

Honbetsu High School
Honbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan

Students investigated how to make the local Ginga-dori shopping street easier and more attractive for junior-high and high-school students to use. They approached the problem from a high-school perspective and surveyed local restaurants as part of the investigation.

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Uji City Future Campus

Ritsumeikan Uji Junior and Senior High School
Uji, Kyoto, Japan

High-school students worked with others on local challenges through interviews, fieldwork and demonstration experiments. Projects included a shopping-street morning market and a student town-walking workshop designed to share the area's attractions.

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Ikuno Future Shop Battle

Osaka Business Frontier High School and Ikuno Mirai Gakuen
Osaka, Osaka, Japan

Seventh-grade students and high-school students formed teams to plan the procurement and sale of local products in the Ikuno Hondori Chuo Shopping Street, creating a student-led event intended to bring activity to the shopping street.

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Shopping Street Revitalization Proposal

Yokohama Municipal Minato Comprehensive High School
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

A student documented ways local students could help attract people to shopping streets, drawing on local examples where high-school and university students ran stalls and younger students created road maps promoting the shopping street and surrounding area.

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Konan Hondori Shopping Street Revitalization Event

Kobe University Secondary School
Kobe, Hyogo, Japan

A student planned and ran a Christmas event with the local shopping-street association to strengthen connections between the street and neighbouring residents. The event attracted 164 participants and recorded 56 purchase receipts totalling ¥85,070; the shopping-street director credited it with making a significant contribution.

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Shopping Street School

Itami High School
Itami, Hyogo, Japan

High-school students worked alongside community residents in a local shopping street as participating members of the community. The long-running activity was designed to strengthen connections between students, residents and the shopping street.

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O Merdeiro Living Heritage Project

Colexio Eduardo Pondal
Vigo, Galicia, Spain

Students investigated Vigo's O Merdeiro carnival tradition and related fishing, farming, oral poetry and music. They interviewed parents and grandparents, learnt from local associations and fish-net makers, and took part in a music workshop. The project connected students directly with community knowledge-bearers and helped them explore and understand local living heritage.

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Mazanka Living Heritage Project

Krasnokutsky Lyceum
Krasnokutsk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine

Students investigated the traditional Ukrainian mazanka mud-house technique across several subjects, visited nearby villages to study surviving houses, experimented with building materials and learnt traditional construction techniques by helping a local community restore a mazanka. The activity moved beyond studying heritage to helping keep the practice alive through real community work.

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The Orchard Community Hub

St Michael’s CE Primary Academy
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Opened a school-based hub offering a food pantry, free adult English lessons, family activities, wellbeing sessions and advice services to parents and local residents.

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Wendouree West Community Learning Hub

Yuille Park Community College
Wendouree West, Victoria, Australia

The school partnered in a community learning hub providing education alongside childcare, kindergarten, youth, health and community services for local residents. The school and hub opened in 2008.

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Joint-Use School and Community Library

Young High School
Young, New South Wales, Australia

A completed joint-use library and community facility, developed with Hilltops Council, provides shared learning and community space for students and local residents.

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Community Access to School Grounds

Cowandilla Primary School and Children’s Centre
Cowandilla, South Australia, Australia

Under a long-term agreement with the City of West Torrens, local residents can use the school’s recreational grounds outside school hours, increasing access to neighbourhood open space.

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Cross Green Community Hub and Garden

Cross Green Growing Together
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Local residents transformed unused and derelict land into a community growing space and hub. The volunteer-led project now combines gardening, meals, children's activities, cooking and digital support to reduce isolation and build local connections.

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Community-Led Development in Remote Villages

Himalayan Community Project
Multiple remote communities, Nepal

Local volunteers work with remote communities on education, health, disaster resilience and practical improvements such as school and water-tap repairs, libraries and supplies. The organisation says every project begins by listening to local communities.

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Multi-Purpose Community Centre

Goviofe Agordome Community
Goviofe Agordome, Ghana

Residents contributed cash, materials and labour to build a weather-protected community centre for meetings, education, health outreach, social events and future income generation.

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Amazon Community Solar Energy Project

Kapawi Community
Kapawi, Pastaza, Ecuador

The Indigenous-led project is installing solar energy, training local people and expanding clean-energy access across ten Amazon communities while protecting biodiversity.

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Community Infrastructure Recovery

Kavrepalanchok and Lalitpur Communities
Kavrepalanchok / Lalitpur, Nepal

More than 800 households earned income while restoring irrigation ponds, roads and drinking-water systems damaged by the September 2024 floods and landslides.

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Community Flood Resilience

Southern Unity Communities
Leer / Mayendit / Panyijar, Unity State, South Sudan

Residents in flood-affected communities worked collectively on locally led measures to protect land, access and livelihoods after years of severe seasonal flooding.

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Kindergarten Block Renovation

Pagazaa Community
Pagazaa, Ghana

Parents, local artisans and residents contributed labour, materials and funds to repair the community kindergarten, creating a safer learning environment for 79 children.

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Community School Clean-Up

Medina Gounass school community
Dakar, Senegal

Students, teachers, residents and environmental volunteers swept classrooms, cleared blocked drains and removed plastic and household waste before the new academic year.

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Drainage and Community Clean-Up

Huruma Estate community
Huruma Estate, Uasin Gishu, Kenya

111 volunteers cleared an illegal dumpsite, unblocked drainage channels, segregated waste and reclaimed cleaner public space.

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Drain and Road Clean-Up

Mji Mpya Street community
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Residents and local stakeholders cleared debris and unblocked stormwater drains along Kijiwe Nongwa Road to improve rainwater flow and reduce flooding risk.

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Community School Renovation

Silverio Elementary School community
Parañaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Parents, barangay officials, alumni, partners, teachers and staff cleaned and landscaped school grounds, repainted classrooms and repaired damaged furniture before the academic year.

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School Facilities Repair

Buanoy Central Elementary School community
Balamban, Cebu, Philippines

241 employee volunteers repaired classrooms and an ageing stage, repainted ceilings and repaired desks and chairs to improve the local children's learning environment.

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Community-Led Public Space Construction

Portete Island community / Saving Portete
Portete Island, Ecuador

More than 30 residents, including children, young people and adults, have participated in designing and constructing shared improvements on Portete Island using local materials and techniques.

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Community Home Building

TECHO Argentina neighbourhood communities
Multiple provinces, Argentina

Volunteers and communities built 634 emergency homes during 2025, directly benefiting more than 2,850 people across neighbourhoods in Argentina.

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Community Space and Street Regeneration

Instituto Fazendinhando / Jardim Colombo community
São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Community workers and about 50 volunteers prepared, painted and revitalised more than 30 building facades in Jardim Colombo.

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Neighbourhood Clean-Up

Toyosu community volunteers
Tokyo, Japan

Around 100 volunteers cleaned roads and green spaces around Toyosu, collecting and separating bottles, cans, plastic bottles, cigarette waste and other rubbish.

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Continuing Community Clean-Up

Doornkop Soweto community
Soweto, Gauteng, South Africa

More than 50 volunteers and community members collect litter, clear illegal dumping sites, sweep streets and sort recyclable materials in an ongoing weekday clean-up campaign.

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Community Road Improvement

Kaikanga Village community
Kaikanga Village, Nakasongola, Uganda

Fifty community members trained in road maintenance and improved a 250-metre road section, built 200 metres of stone side drain and installed 14 metres of culverts.

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School Facilities Improvement

R.G. Hechanova Memorial National High School community
Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines

More than 230 volunteers painted 14 classrooms, seven hallways and four staircases, refurbished 40 chairs and completed separate changing rooms.

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Community-Owned Telecommunications Network

guifi.net
Gurb / multiple locations, Catalonia, Spain

Volunteers and local participants help grow and maintain an open shared telecommunications network that improves digital connectivity and treats network infrastructure as a community commons.

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Community Wi-Fi Network

Freifunk Berlin
Berlin, Germany

Residents contribute routers, rooftop locations and technical skills to build and maintain a free community wireless network.

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Community Wireless Network

Athens Wireless Metropolitan Network
Athens, Attica, Greece

Residents and volunteers build and maintain a community-owned wireless network connecting people across Athens and surrounding areas.

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Community Accessibility Mapping

Wheelmap.org / Sozialheld*innen
Berlin, Germany

Volunteers rate the wheelchair accessibility of public places and toilets, add missing places and photographs, creating practical accessibility information that other people can use.

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Zeitgeist Enns Pop-up Shops

Tourismus & Stadtmarketing Enns GmbH
Enns, Upper Austria, Austria

Vacant town-centre shops were offered for temporary pop-ups so new businesses could test ideas and attract customers. Nine pop-ups became long-term lets, five businesses settled permanently, vacant units fell and customer traffic on Linzer Straße increased by 43%.

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POP Art — Pride of Place

Bedford Creative Arts
Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Local creatives were given empty high-street shop windows and vacant retail space for exhibitions, workshops and community activity. The project has run across multiple Bedford town-centre windows since 2022, turning unused spaces into public creative displays.

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Living Windows

Empty Space CIC
Monmouth, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom

Volunteers temporarily transform empty shops and other neglected high-street spaces with hand-painted art linked to local history, landscape and culture. The programme aims to improve vacant properties and bring renewed attention and activity to Monmouth town centre.

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Empty Shop Windows Project

Avon Valley Community Matters
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, United Kingdom

The charity brought together residents, volunteers, schools, youth groups, artists, businesses, estate agents and the town council to fill empty Fordingbridge shop windows with locally made displays. The long-term aim is to make the town centre more inviting and visually appealing.

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Bermondsey Advent Windows

Big Local Works and Blue Bermondsey BID
Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom

A community-led public art trail used shop windows across The Blue as an advent calendar, revealing a new display each day. A printed and online map led visitors around local businesses, creating a reason to explore the town centre and high street.

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High Street Story Collectors

Watermans
Hounslow, London, United Kingdom

Community volunteers interviewed and photographed more than 20 Hounslow High Street business owners, recording stories that had often never been captured before. The stories informed new artworks and an exhibition, with six works displayed in local shops and spaces as a high-street art trail.

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Shopkeepers of Dunoon

Tacit-Tacit
Dunoon, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom

Community interviews and local research became a street-long exhibition and heritage trail. Thirteen exhibits were placed in shop windows with two more in public venues; more than 500 people took a trail guide, helping visitors see the high street and its shopkeepers differently.

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Newport Pop-up Shops

Shaping Newport
Newport, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom

Empty High Street properties were used for short-term pop-up shops as part of a wider town-centre partnership. The scheme attracted more than 1,300 visits and around £6,500 in trader sales, while giving people a new reason to visit the centre.

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Understanding and Celebrating Our Roots

Granby Somali Women's Group
Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom

Community volunteers collected oral histories about Liverpool's Somali heritage through heritage picnic sessions. The stories and memories were shared through a celebration event, video blogs, a Somali-language booklet for older community members and a website, preserving knowledge that might otherwise have been lost.

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Grow Our Histories — Peckham Heritage

South London Gallery
London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Local people shared memories and experiences of living and working in Peckham and Camberwell through an oral-history project. The material contributes to an archive and interactive community map that links people's memories to places in the local social, architectural and cultural landscape.

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Upper Claremont Security Association

Cape Town, South Africa

Community-run neighbourhood watch where residents contribute to local safety and can volunteer time and expertise.

WHERE: Upper Claremont
WHEN: Ongoing community activity
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