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In Maré Complex, Brazil, residents needed help dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. To help the residents, a group of researchers and NGOs created the project Conexáo Saúde (Health Connection). This project allowed residents to learn about COVID, get help testing for COVID, and get help isolating if they had COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases during the pandemic in Rio de Janeiro were not accurately captured due to a lack of testing. Most residents do not have official addresses, making them unable to get the COVID-19 tests. So volunteers went door to door to get accurate information about the COVID-19 cases.

Guia Rocinha Histórica is an online guided tour of the Rocinha favela built on the StoryMaps platform. In the project, Rocinha’s own residents narrate stories about the community’s history and local culture, making the forgotten community visible to the public and alleviating the negative impact of COVID-19 through tourism.

Many residents in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro rely on a public transportation route to connect them to various important areas nearby. Yet it dwindled from multiple to one unreliable bus. The remaining bus driver created a WhatsApp with live updates that quickly grew to an entire community.

To prepare for the World Cup and Summer Olympics, thousands of low-income people in Rio de Janeiro were forcibly evicted. Many people ended up in Queimados, a county with poverty and violence that lacks transportation. Carlos de Oliveira changed this by showing residents how to build their own bikes.

Description Australia in 2013 made radical immigration policy changes. They struck a deal with its former colony, Papua New Guinea, called the “Papua New Guinea-Australia Migration Agreement.” With this, the forced migrants seeking asylum in Australia were relocated to the Manus Regional Processing Centre. This is an offshore detention center in New Guinea that they

Even after Obaid-Chinoy’s documentary won an Oscar, she realized it meant little unless the Pakistani’s affected by the social issues in the film could see it. So she and her team converted a truck into a mobile cinema that allowed the films to be shown in remote areas of Pakistan.

Although Truck Art existed in Pakistan before 2016, Truck Art Child Finder made portraits of missing children and put their relevant information on them, allowing them to be seen by people in deep rural and disconnected areas, with it even getting global attention, shedding light on the issue of missing children.

Za’atari refugee camp, the world’s largest, forces residents to navigate unpaved, inaccessible terrain. Safwan Harb, disabled by polio, engineered a wheelchair-bike from scavenged parts, deliberately using discarded materials so that other disabled people could replicate his design. His invention transforms immobility into agency within a system that abandoned accessibility entirely.

In 1999, NATO bombed the Balkan Route, a path migrants commonly walked on. With thousands of unmapped landmines remaining, it became increasingly dangerous to travel through the area. The Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Suspected Area Map was created. This app allows users to report, locate, and avoid suspected mine-contaminated areas.