The Happy Pod: Learning begins with breakfast

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Speaker 8 Hello, I'm Anka Desai and in this edition, how school breakfasts in Malawi are helping children to learn.

Speaker 11 My greatest joy about the job is seeing the children happy. Just happy.

Speaker 8 We meet the people growing fresh and affordable fruit and veg in Montreal.

Speaker 12 I'm fortunately gifted to have a family that can provide themselves with enough food and that's kind of why I feel I come back year after year because I like ensuring that other people can have that same security I know I have.

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Speaker 13 I dance even in the bathroom. In the morning, when I get up, I turn on the radio and sing and dance.
My My feet just start moving on their own.

Speaker 8 The dance club tackling loneliness amongst older people in Venezuela. And a much needed lesson in optimism from tortoises.

Speaker 8 People often say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and that can be especially true for school children, whose concentration and learning can suffer without a nutritious start to the day.

Speaker 8 One of the charities working to ensure they get just that, Mary's Meals, recently reached a major milestone, feeding 3 million children every day across 16 countries.

Speaker 8 Their biggest program is in Malawi in South East Africa and for many students there it's a reason to stay in school. Ella Bicknell has been there finding out more.

Speaker 9 It's just before dawn here at Chalanga School for the Blind, which is Malawi's oldest school for visually impaired children.

Speaker 9 Everyone is still asleep except in a quiet corner of the site where one of the school cooks is already at work.

Speaker 9 And there's something captivating about the way she stirs this massive pot of porridge using a paddle the size of an oar, only stopping to feed more logs onto the fire.

Speaker 9 A few hours later it's nearly time for the classroom. The children are washed, dressed and gently guiding one another to the benches where they'll receive their daily cup of porridge.

Speaker 11 My greatest joy about the job is seeing the children happy.

Speaker 14 Just happy.

Speaker 9 For Angelo Chipetta-Conje, director of Mary's Meals Malawi, the work is more than food. It's about making sure no child is forgotten.

Speaker 15 We've seen great change.

Speaker 11 The attendance is

Speaker 11 increasing, but also just the concentration. We've done our own assessments in the schools where the concentration before the meals is at 30%,

Speaker 11 but after the meals it goes up to 90%.

Speaker 9 For parents like Chikondi Mafuta, the breakfast programme has been life-changing.

Speaker 9 Her son, Wangani, has gone from strength to strength, and later this year, he'll represent Malawi at the Disabled Youth Games in Namibia, running the 1500 meters.

Speaker 14 When I heard that at Chilanga, they received courage each day in the morning.

Speaker 14 I was very happy as the mother, and to have everybody have the meal, it is a privilege for the children that helps them to grow healthier.

Speaker 9 Over the years, Chilanga has received donations of braille machines and adapted PE equipment, but food remains the most vital and the most vulnerable resource.

Speaker 9 UNICEF warns that half a million children in Malawi are now at risk of malnutrition, and for those with disabilities, the risks are often greater.

Speaker 9 But school feeding programs and inclusion policies of communities and governments have started to change that.

Speaker 14 Previously, Ungani would face discrimination. It's no longer the case.

Speaker 14 People are now aware that even though when someone has a disability, they can be able to achieve anything else like any other normal person.

Speaker 9 At the heart of the school, headteacher Chico Campandera sees a community of learners thriving against the odds, some embarking on careers in the civil service and medicine.

Speaker 1 So we have so many success stories. They're learning.
They're independent because

Speaker 1 we taught them orientation. And because of this in 2022 we had 100% pass rate.

Speaker 6 It's very very interesting and touching.

Speaker 9 Mamawi has earned a reputation of being the warm heart of Africa and despite food challenges that warmth shines through.

Speaker 9 The children sing a prayerful tune, the words, God, you have purpose for us. Whatever names we are called, you have a name name for us.
He loves and values everyone.

Speaker 8 Ellibignal reporting from Malawi

Speaker 8 to Montreal in Canada now and a mobile food market helping to improve the health of families on low incomes.

Speaker 8 The multi-caf market is open to everyone, but for those struggling to make ends meet, it sells fresh fruit and vegetables at a loss.

Speaker 8 The non-profit organisation also had a local micro farm farm and hopes to grow all of its own produce eventually.

Speaker 8 Harry Bly spoke to Justine Cheneshaw, who coordinates the farm, and Tarek Sears, who works at the market.

Speaker 12 Often I'll see moms and dads come in with their kids, honestly, just to help them carry around the fruits and vegetables, just because they can obviously buy so much.

Speaker 12 In past years, we've had to limit it. But thanks to the multi-caf team and the donations we've received

Speaker 12 from outside sources, we've been able to kind of ensure that we have enough fruits and vegetables for everybody, no matter how much they want to take, which has really helped the vibes in the markets, just because people feel like they can do as they please.

Speaker 12 They can take what they want. I see people sharing recipes, their culture, their stories about what they're going to use this for.
It's really wonderful to see.

Speaker 16 You've been volunteering since you were 12 and you were introduced to it by your grandparents. So I suppose the big question is why do you do it?

Speaker 16 And what about this project in particular brings you you joy?

Speaker 12 I really think that this project has taught me the importance of food to people.

Speaker 12 When I was very young, I didn't really understand what went into preparing a dish, what went into knowing that you could feed your family without any stress, really.

Speaker 12 So I think this project has kind of helped me mature and understand what it means to have food security. I'm fortunately gifted to have a family that can provide themselves with enough food.

Speaker 12 And that's kind of why I feel I come back year after year, because I like ensuring that other people can have that same security I know I have.

Speaker 12 It's a gratifying feeling and it's really nice to see people who truly appreciate what we do.

Speaker 16 And Justine, you're the microfarm coordinator for Multicaf. Tell me, what does the future look like in terms of stocking these markets with entirely your own produce?

Speaker 19 Our farm is still young. It's two years old.
So it's still a baby farm. So we're going going to be building on growing the production every year until we're able to provide the most we can.

Speaker 19 Also, making the season longer every year, a little bit further into the winter and earlier into the spring to be able to provide longer and also more.

Speaker 16 I know that agriculture can be very, very testing, as can winters in Montreal. Why do you do it? What about this project brings you joy?

Speaker 19 Well, personally, I'm someone who loves being outside, so this just makes sense for me to be in contact.

Speaker 19 It's working with people in the neighborhood who come and volunteer at the farm and come help out. I'm so thankful for them, but they're thankful to us.
And that's always surprising to me.

Speaker 19 It's so special to have Google groups, kids come by and see them learn about where food comes from and get grounded into the local environment. I find that really important.

Speaker 16 What sort of feedback have you had from not only your volunteers, Justine, at the farm, but also the customers, the people that buy of you, the people that actually survive because of you?

Speaker 19 I feel like people are starved for a little green everywhere in Montreal, really, in the big city, in the busyness of it all.

Speaker 19 And seeing people come here for the first time and be able to take that breath of fresh air and see their shoulders just relax.

Speaker 19 My favorite question to ask when I'm at the markets is what's your favorite vegetable? And that changes so much because it's such a diverse neighborhood and we have so many people from everywhere.

Speaker 19 It's been so fun to learn from people at the markets, not only about new vegetables, but new ways to eat them and open that conversation.

Speaker 12 So I think the improvements on bringing in local produce to the markets has increased like the amount of trust they have in us.

Speaker 12 It's really wonderful to see because I can understand how people would want things that are grown in Quebec and even then in Montreal.

Speaker 12 When I describe, oh, you can see where this stuff is grown in the next 10 minutes, it always gets wonderful reactions. And really, I think it's kind of more personalized our market.

Speaker 12 We're not just some market you'll find on the side of the road.

Speaker 12 We are multi-caf mobile market and we will sell you fruits and vegetables, even if you may not even be able to afford them at the supermarket. So it's this past year has been wonderful.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 Tarek Sears and Justine Senechal speaking to Harry Bly.

Speaker 8 For me, this has to be one of the best job titles around. It's called Astronomer Royal.
And as you might imagine from the sound of it, it has a rather ancient pedigree.

Speaker 8 The title has been around in the United Kingdom for 350 years, making it one of the world's oldest scientific positions. And for the first time, it's been awarded to a woman.

Speaker 8 Professor Michel Doherty spoke to my colleague Tim Franks and began by explaining what exactly the job is.

Speaker 20 The Astronomer Royal was first announced back in 1675 when King Charles II

Speaker 20 wanted to have a scientist work out how longitude worked, where zero longitude was, so that people could work out where they were going to travel around the world.

Speaker 19 Right.

Speaker 18 So it was for navigation by sea.

Speaker 20 It was for navigation by sea. And to be frank, it's a good thing I wasn't awarded it at those days, because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

Speaker 20 My excuse is I was born in the southern hemisphere, so the sun is always in the wrong place. But I'm very relieved that it has now evolved into a position which is an honorary position.

Speaker 20 If the king has any questions on astronomy or space science, he will approach me in the first instance.

Speaker 20 But I think for me the bulk of the role will be to engage with the general public, to excite and enthuse them as much as I am about astronomy and space science, but also to give everyone an understanding about how important some of the instrumentation that we build is for building different types of instruments.

Speaker 20 It'll be good for the UK economy. So when I first moved to the UK I became involved in building magnetometer instruments.
And so what those instruments do is they measure the magnetic field.

Speaker 20 And I was involved in the Cassini mission to Saturn and I have an instrument on the JUICE spacecraft that's on its way to Jupiter.

Speaker 20 I never thought as a young kid that I would end up doing something like this.

Speaker 20 But for me it's the combination of working with engineers, building the kinds of instruments that we need to tease out the really interesting science that we can't do unless we've got the spectacular instrumentation.

Speaker 20 So it's the the combination of engineering and science for me, collaborating with lots of different people. Best work I've done is when I collaborate with large teams of people.

Speaker 20 So that's how I got involved in space science and then planetary science and how I've ended up in this role today.

Speaker 18 Yeah, and I mean, putting it in that historical context where you began, when, you know, 350 years ago, astronomers were just beginning to work out how perhaps we could sort of navigate by the stars to where we are now and how much more we

Speaker 18 we still have to understand and work out. I mean, it's sort of never stopped being just an utterly fascinating time to be an astronomer, has it?

Speaker 20 Absolutely. I see us as explorers.
And, you know, the spacecraft mission I'm involved in, we're still exploring our own solar system.

Speaker 20 Part of what we hope to learn from it will allow us to better understand other exoplanetary systems. But we're on this long voyage of discovery and exploration.

Speaker 20 As we go, we make new discoveries we didn't think we would, and then we might change direction. But for me, it's part of what humankind does.
We want to explore.

Speaker 20 I'm so excited that this is part of my job.

Speaker 18 I'm sure it's a question that you are dealing with a lot, but you are the first woman to be appointed astronomer royal.

Speaker 18 And it is also the case that, unfortunately, although I think the numbers are improving,

Speaker 18 that women and girls are underrepresented in the sciences. Where do you think we are on that? And how significant do you think, modesty aside, your appointment is?

Speaker 20 In the UK, in particular, and that's where I've been for the last 35 years, things are continuing to improve. When I first arrived here, there were not as many

Speaker 20 scientists who are women or were women. And I've seen that real change.

Speaker 20 What it's important, I think one of the reasons why my appointment as a woman is important is it allows younger people today to see someone who looks like them and to think, oh, maybe I could do that.

Speaker 8 The new British astronomer Royal Professor Michelle Docherty is speaking to Tim Franks.

Speaker 8 Coming up on this episode of the podcast.

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Speaker 8 Next, we're in Venezuela where a weekly club is bringing together local seniors who may be facing loneliness and putting their dance moves on show.

Speaker 8 In the capital, Caracas, over 60s are invited to hit the dance floor at Club Tobias and throw some shapes. Holly Gibbs has been finding out more.

Speaker 7 This is a weekly meeting of Club Tobias members at a shopping mall in Caracas, Venezuela.

Speaker 7 They are singing, dancing, and just generally having a good time.

Speaker 7 Tobias is a social club with a twist. It's for people over the age of 60, many of whom live alone as their children have emigrated abroad.

Speaker 7 This is a place that proves having a good time has no age limit.

Speaker 7 Some have called it their lifeline to stop them feeling lonely. 93-year-old Angela Gratroll found out about the club from her son, whose friend is one of the founders.

Speaker 7 She says Club Tobias brought her back to life.

Speaker 13 I dance even in the bathroom. In the morning, when I get up, I turn on the radio and sing and dance.
My feet just start moving on their own.

Speaker 13 Music fills me up in some way, and thanks to Tobias, I was able to get that back at this point in my life.

Speaker 7 Angela is often accompanied by 90-year-old Juan Fuentes, a retired soldier whose daughter lives abroad.

Speaker 7 Before he comes to a Club Tobias meeting, he practices singing and dancing to his favourite songs and writes down the lyrics to anything he might forget.

Speaker 7 77-year-old Xandra Pedraza co-founded the club three years ago.

Speaker 24 We want to become a nationwide social franchise because, with the Venezuelan migration, many adults have been left alone. Previously, our parents would stay at home waiting to die.

Speaker 24 But now we live to be 95 or 97 years old. So we need to help the elderly and teach them how to get out and about.

Speaker 7 The other co-founder is Jose Rafael Quintana. He has a simple motto to motivate people who come to Club Tobias.

Speaker 6 What do we do here? Here we dance, sing, talk, celebrate life,

Speaker 6 and connect neurons. We teach older adults that if you don't move, you seize up.

Speaker 8 Jose Rafael Quintana ending that reports by Holly Gibbs. It was once thought to be a haunted island, the site of an old plague pit and deserted hospital.

Speaker 8 Bovellia in northeastern Italy lies in the Venetian lagoon, just under five kilometers from the main city.

Speaker 8 Now, more than four and a half thousand people have clubbed together to stop it being purchased by developers and ensure it remains as a natural haven for all. Carloconti reports.

Speaker 26 Just south of Venice, in the middle of the lagoon, sits a small island, with no cafes, no souvenir stands, and most days, no people.

Speaker 26 Once a plague pit, then a hospital, Povellia has sat largely abandoned for decades, but from August, its northern stretch will be transformed, not by developers, but by ordinary citizens.

Speaker 26 The idea is simple. Restore that part of the island as a public park, managed by the people and kept out of private hands.

Speaker 26 As if a territory could be dismembered, stripped bare, as if Venice could stay the same without its islands.

Speaker 26 The poem, read during a gathering on the island, captures what's at stake for puvella pertutti, or puvella for everyone, an activist group determined to protect the island from private development.

Speaker 26 After eleven years of campaigning, they've now secured a six-year lease to manage the land, not to build or sell, but to protect it.

Speaker 21 The project is about preserving the island of Poveglia and keeping it free and accessible for the people. Not just Venetians, anyone who can visit.

Speaker 26 That's Federica Fornazia. She's the group's secretary and one of the many volunteers who've been working to keep the island alive.

Speaker 26 The story begins in 2014 when Italy's state property agency put Poveglia up for auction, starting at zero Euros.

Speaker 26 Furious at the prospect of losing another piece of public land to private investors, Venetians took action.

Speaker 21 They started a fundraising campaign and they wanted to raise 20,000 euros, which was what was needed to participate in the auction, just to say we exist, we don't like it.

Speaker 21 But instead, in just a few weeks, they raised 450,000 Euro. That was when they realized that it was a big outrage.
It wasn't just a group of people at a cafe.

Speaker 21 This was shared by Venetian families families and also people from outside Venice that love the island.

Speaker 26 The auction was cancelled, but the movement had begun. Over the years, the group cleared the island of weeds, collected plastic from the shoreline, and opened it up for community celebrations.

Speaker 26 Now they're teaming up with botanists and the University of Verona, not just to replant the island with native species, but to track how care from citizens can reshape a place ecologically and socially.

Speaker 21 The most important goal for the project was that Povellia should not fall into a state of abandonment, but the other objective is for it to become more accessible and for people to really feel like it's their urban park in the lagoon.

Speaker 21 Recently, there have been articles in the news saying that the association wants Povella only for residents. But this is absolutely not true.
Anyone can visit.

Speaker 21 What the project is doing is trying to transform every visitor of Povellia into an inhabitant in their own way.

Speaker 26 Even without electricity and even without a pier, the group still manages to hold events like open-air concerts and communal picnics.

Speaker 21 We do this cute thing. Once a year we organize a day, a community day, a party on the island with music, food, theatre, and we try to invite everybody who's interested in the project.

Speaker 21 There is this this idea of creating the community by getting people to fall in love with the island more and more.

Speaker 26 While the lease is only six years from now, Poveya Pertutti hopes their model can inspire others across Italy and beyond.

Speaker 8 Carla Conti reporting. Now, dear listeners, have you, like me, ever wondered if tortoises feel the same emotions as humans? And if not, why not? I admit they're one of my favourite creatures.

Speaker 8 I mean, they have existed for over 200 million years. Well, a group of scientists set out to find the answer.
And the results are in, as Stephanie Prentice reports.

Speaker 27 Tortoises are renowned for being slow-moving and placid. But does that come from a sense of deep contentment in life? Or some sort of quiet, existential malaise?

Speaker 27 Professor Anna Wilkinson was part of a team at the University University of Lincoln in England studying 15 of the reptiles, including Esme, Moses, and Gerard Butler, and told us that doing an emotional wellness check on a reptile isn't easy.

Speaker 28 A tortoise, it doesn't smile. It doesn't have facial expressions.
So, because of this, we need to look at other ways to tell.

Speaker 28 So, what we did in this study is we looked to see if the tortoises had mood states.

Speaker 27 The team used the classic is the glass half full or half empty approach but using leafy greens and the odd carrot.

Speaker 28 What we did was we said if your food bowl is on the right hand side if you go there you'll get some food. If your food bowl is on the left hand side if you go there you won't get some food.

Speaker 28 And the tortoises very rapidly learn this. And then we say well what do you do? when it's halfway? Are you an optimist? Do you treat it as if it's full or half full at least?

Speaker 7 Or a pessimist?

Speaker 28 As if it's likely to be empty. And so we did this to our tortoises, and what we found was overall they had an optimistic bias, which we were delighted by.

Speaker 27 The researchers say this is important as the findings can make people see that their pet tortoise has a rich inner life and encourage optimal care for creatures that can live for up to 200 years.

Speaker 27 And while the study suggests that tortoises tend to look on the bright side, further research will be required to determine whether, like some humans, tortoises are prone to getting a bit grumpier with age.

Speaker 8 Stephanie Prentice reporting. Now to an incredible community response to support a teenager who'd been bullied at school.

Speaker 8 As the sound of some of the hundreds of motorbikes that turned out in Swindon in southern England to escort Josh Stuff to his prom on the eve of his 16th birthday, Josh's dad Craig had appealed on social media for fellow bikers to help end his son's time at high school on a positive note after years of being picked on.

Speaker 8 He says he was amazed by the response.

Speaker 29 Within, say, 10-15 minutes, according to the post-up, I already had 10-15 bikers woke up in the morning. We had about 50 bikers say they were coming.

Speaker 29 And then the next 12 hours after that, it exploded. We've had messages from all around the UK.
We've had people internationally contacting us saying they're following the the story.

Speaker 29 We've had people say they're not even bikers following the story. The response has been absolutely immense.

Speaker 8 Josh has special educational needs, known in the UK as SEN. And his mum Frances says that's made school harder.

Speaker 30 All kids can have a hard time in school, especially SED and kids. They can have a very hard time.
But we didn't want the end of the chapter of school to

Speaker 30 not be the best it can be. So we came out and thought, hang on, let's grab a few people to show that even though it was difficult, you've done your exams, you've had a hard time.

Speaker 30 But no, we're going to go to prom. You're going to have a fantastic time.
And it shows Josh that there is support from so many people.

Speaker 30 Even if he feels alone some days, he doesn't realize how many people have his back.

Speaker 8 Before the event, Josh said he couldn't believe the response.

Speaker 29 I am over the moon because I never thought this would blow up this much. Initially, when this post went out, I wanted only

Speaker 29 two dozen bikers at the limit. I never thought I'd reach internationally and got over 250 bikers plus.

Speaker 29 My heart is full of these bikers and these people saying all these love full because I'm just so excited and overwhelmed.

Speaker 8 And it's estimated around 1500 people turned out, some traveling for hours just to be there.

Speaker 8 And his lesson from it all, with the bullies, if you just ignore them and power through, you can expect a great result. Wise words from a wise young man.
Well done, Josh.

Speaker 8 And that's all from the Happy Pod for now. If you have a story you think will inspire others or just make them smile, we'd love to hear from you.
As ever, the address is globalpodcast at bbc.co.uk.

Speaker 8 And you can now watch some of our interviews on YouTube. Just search for the happy pod.
This edition was mixed by Pat Sissons and the producers were Holly Gibbs and Harry Bly.

Speaker 8 The editor is Karen Martin and I'm Uncra Desai. Until next time, goodbye.

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