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A new resource for young changemakers: The guide to storytelling

by 50 Percent | November 25, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

In the world we’re living in today, storytelling is one of the most powerful tools we have. Stories help us make sense of crisis, connect across differences and reimagine what our shared future could look like. That’s why we are launching the Young person’s guide to...

From mafias to common good: How libera transforms land and lives

by Mariachiara Fagan | November 7, 2025 | Uncategorized | 0 Comments

An unexpected Italy Far from the crowded cities and mainstream tourist routes, a different Italy emerges, a country marked by silence and resilience, where transformation is not always visible for an external visitor. In rural areas of the peninsula, old villas once...

Backing Young Leaders: Are we adequately supporting young leaders during this volatile political time?

by Nolita Mvunelo, Principal for Cultural Transformations, The Club of Rome and Co-Director of The 50 Percent | October 9, 2025 | News | 0 Comments

The international community has embraced youth empowerment with unprecedented enthusiasm. From the UN's Youth2030 strategy to the recently adopted Pact for the Future, global frameworks increasingly recognise young people as essential partners in addressing climate...

How I Felt the Essence of Ubuntu Philosophy in the Cholistan Desert

Sep 1, 2025 | Articles

How does Ubuntu, I am because you are, animate our shared humanity? The question lingered in my mind as I boarded a dusty jeep in Bahawalpur, bound for the vast Cholistan Desert. I promised myself I would find the answer not in theory, but in moments lived under...

The Walk for Water: Scarcity and Survival in Rural Rajasthan

Sep 1, 2025 | Articles

Designed by Lisa and everlast jorney The land of kings, the epitome of heritage and culture. This is Rajasthan in India. The moment you think of it or search for it on the internet, a vivid picture comes to your mind. Royal forts rising from golden sands, palaces...

Topic: Green or Greenwashed? Decoding the truth in Brand Storytelling

Sep 1, 2025 | Articles

Designed by Ron Lach You’re sitting on your couch, scrolling through reels like you do on any other day, suddenly an influencer shows up on your feed, glowing skin, selling you a shampoo bottle, saying it’s eco-friendly, organic and sustainable. A few swipes later,...

Special Track: From Symptoms to Roots

Aug 21, 2025 | News

The second chapter of the Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change Fellowship Available exclusively to graduates of Cohorts 2 and 3 of the Young Person’s Guide to Systems Change Fellowship, From Symptoms to Roots is a unique, exploratory research track designed to take...

The Possible Is Already Here: A Politics for a Climate-Imaginative Future Grounded in Community

Jul 13, 2025 | Articles

Designed by Dio Hasbi Saniskoro If the first act of liberation is critique, then the second is creation. Not creation as novelty or invention, but as remembering—reawakening what we already know deep down: that the possible is always gestating in the margins. It does...

Because I said so…

Jul 13, 2025 | Articles

Designed by Akil Mazumder As a child, I resisted those four little words with unrelenting fervour. I remember them as a full stop at the end of wonder—an authoritative curtain closing on my curiosity. Adults called me contrary, “perversely inclined to disagree,” they...