1: Saving The World's Fastest Sinking City

12/08/19 • 12 min

Powering the Movement: A Global Citizen Podcast

Nashin Mahtani, 28, created a crowd-sourced map that can save lives during extreme weather events in Jakarta. Her organization, PetaBencana.id, shares and verifies crucial information to users in Indonesia’s rapidly urbanizing mega-city, also known as the “fastest sinking” city in the world. We join Nashin on the ground, where she shows us the links between climate change, poverty and how her organization leverages social media and community to save lives.

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Introducing ‘Powering the Movement’: A Global Citizen Podcast

Global Citizen is a movement of engaged citizens who are using their collective voice to end extreme poverty by 2030. Join us as we introduce you to young activists and leaders dedicating their lives to ending extreme poverty and using their passion, experience, and energy to solve some of society’s most pressing problems. Our inaugural five-part season tells the human stories behind these activists fighting to change the world — and how you can rise up and take action with Global Citizen.

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2: Preventing Disease in India, One School Kid at a Time

Priya Prakash, 28, struggled with her own health issues as a young person. This inspired her to start HealthSetGo, an organization bringing quality health care, checkups, and hygiene tips to India’s children where they are — in their schools. In a country with extremely high rates of cancer, diabetes, and obesity, HealthSetGo is the first opportunity many kids have to see a doctor, making it key to diagnosing and preventing diseases across India.

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