Education

Pip Rea works for Freeset - a fair-trade business which employs women trapped in Kolkata's sex trade. Audio, Gallery

In our food segment today, we meet one of the team behind Pomegranate Kitchen, a social enterprise where refugees to New Zealand cook meals for Wellingtonians, using recipes from their homeland. Audio, Gallery

Fed up with primary students' poor grasp of science, Chris Duggan, a secondary school science teacher, set up the House of Science. And it's going from strength to strength. Audio

Dr Tim Lomas is trying to drive the English language into new, uncharted territory. He's creating an index of words, that have no direct English equivalent, that represent emotional experiences. And… Audio

If you are over 45 you may remember your primary school classroom having a radio loud-speaker permanently mounted on the wall and every so often it would magically come alive with a 'Broadcast to… Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to the founder of the Sydney Story Factory, Catherine Keenan, on how the not-for-profit creative writing centre is helping the literacy skills of marginalised children and youth. Audio

We tend to hear about young up and coming writers being discovered, but Patricia Langford was in her early 70s when she took up creative writing and caught the eye of her tutors. Award-winning poet… Audio

NZ On Air funding is now available for online outlets to make documentaries. Jeremy Rose looks at the first major documentary paid for with the public purse. Video, Audio

An Auckland mother has reached out on a social network to ask for friends for her 12-year-old daughter with special needs. Video, Audio