The £330m Man Who Gave Cambridge a School of Government — Then Left Britain

Hezbollah's Martyr Foundation

Fatima al-Ashkar lined up the toy soldiers on the living room floor, one by one, as her children watched. She picked up a plastic airplane and mimed a bombing run over the tiny green men. “Israel came and bombed here,” she told them. “Daddy was here. Daddy was martyred. Daddy was protecting us.” She was 26, a widow in Markaba, a village in south Lebanon, and her husband—a Hezbollah fighter—had been killed in April. She had to explain death to children who were too young to understand it, so she…

“Providing comprehensive support—housing, stipends, schooling, healthcare, and psychological counseling—to families of fallen fighters, including at least 26-year-old widow Fatima al-Ashkar and her children in Beirut.”

Robert Solomon

At 5:30 on a New York morning, while the city still yawns, Robert Solomon is already elbow-deep in a bucket of water, swishing dandelion greens headfirst until they perk up like they’ve had their coffee. To most of us, dandelions are lawn invaders. To Solomon, they’re a reason to get out of bed. “I like fussing up the dandelion greens,” he says, a quiet smile in his voice. This is the man who, at 71, traded a career in building management and tech support for the produce aisle of an…

“Bringing fresh, carefully tended produce to hundreds of New York shoppers daily while championing the dignity of ordinary work.”

Cameron Green

The scoreboard read 165 for 8, and the dressing room was a morgue. In Darwin’s heat, under a sky that promised no mercy, Australia’s top order had folded like a cheap deck chair—dismissed for 64 in the first innings, then reduced to rubble again. But in the middle, a 25-year-old with the calm of a monk was doing something extraordinary. Cameron Green was not just batting; he was refusing to let the match—and his team’s spirit—die. Green is not a philanthropist in the traditional sense. He doesn’t write checks to…

“Holding Australia's innings together with a defiant 51* under extreme pressure, inspiring teammates and young fans alike.”

Mary John

At seven years old, Mary John lay inside an iron lung, her body ravaged by peritonitis and septicaemia, her parents barred from visiting by medical orthodoxy. No one explained the machines, the pain, or the isolation. She later described herself as “a child abandoned, bewildered, drugged, hallucinating and desperately solitary.” That terrifying, lonely childhood became the engine of her life’s work: ensuring no child, no disabled person, no human being would ever again be treated as an object to be managed rather than a voice to be heard. Mary found…

“Pioneered the first global children's rights conference involving children themselves and helped establish the European Commission's Bureau for Action in Favour of Disabled People, shaping international policy on child participation and disability rights.”

Oxfam GB

There is a moment every charity shop manager knows: the quiet afternoon when the donation bin stays empty, the till stays silent, and the racks of secondhand coats seem to hold their breath. For Oxfam, Britain's most iconic charity retailer, that silence is becoming more frequent. The organization that turned pre-loved jumpers into emergency water pumps and refugee tents is now fighting for its own survival, reviewing the future of its three warehouses and admitting it "cannot give guarantees" about its high street shops. The news landed like a stone…

“Oxfam GB's retail operations generated £6.3m in net contributions to humanitarian work last year, funding emergency responses in Venezuela, the Middle East, and Ukraine, while supporting 500+ high street shops and 90 warehouse jobs.”

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