Aid And Development

Robert Scott is saving waste and surplus wood from the building industry from getting bulldozed into the landfill and restoring it for re-use. Audio

After 14 years and $3 billion in support from Australia, New Zealand and other partners, do the Solomon Islands have a shot at lasting peace? RNZ Pacific's Koroi Hawkins investigates for Insight. Audio, Gallery

One Wellington family decide to take their children on an educational holiday back to their mother's homeland of Sri Lanka, but family holidays never go as planned. Audio, Gallery

Think of a crop that comes from Afghanistan and is worth thousands of dollars a kilo and chances are opium is what springs to mind. But there's another far less damaging crop that Wellington-based… Audio

For 3 decades Sunshine Books founder Dame Wendy Pye has helped millions of school children learn to read. Wendy tells Kathryn Ryan how the latest way of doing this is a plan to sell affordable… Audio

The world's media are slowly getting past the stereotypes of poverty, disease and corruption that have characterised coverage of Africa in the past but there's still a way to go, says a media scholar.

They're often the forgotten casualties of war... The many thousands of zoo animals killed by bombs or starvation after workers have fled... But a global animal charity named Four Paws is on a rescue… Audio

Twins Stephanie and Clair Mills are in the business of making lives better. Stephanie was head of Greenpeace for a decade and now is at NZEI and Clair is in France working for Doctors without Borders… Audio

Last week 82 of the Chibok girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 were released. The kidnapping is part of a much bigger tragedy. Kiwi Patrick Rose is UNICEF's crisis communications specialist for West… Audio

Since the National government has been in power the proportion of aid going towards economic development has risen from less than 10 percent to nearly a third, at the expense of directly targeting… Audio