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Readers share wishes for 2025: Be kind to each other and Earth! Learn from birds!

We asked our readers to make a wish for 2025. If even one of these wishes comes true, the world will definitely be a better place!

January 18, 2025
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  • Laurel Dalrymple

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We asked global thinkers how to improve life on earth in 2025. Here are their wishes

What's one thing humankind can do to help heal the world? The wishes cover everything from upholding Jimmy Carter's legacy to cleaning up Mt. Everest. Readers, we'd like to hear your wishes as well.

January 06, 2025
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  • NPR Staff
We asked our readers to send in their wishes for 2024, and many of you expressed a hope that humans pay attention to the health of the planet. The woman pictured above is one of the nomadic Wodaabe people — cattle herders who live mainly in Chad and Niger. Their lifestyle is affected by higher temperatures, shifting winds and changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

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Readers' wishes for 2024: TLC for Earth, an end to AIDS, more empathy, less light

As a new year dawns, we asked our readers to send us their global wishes. Here's what they're hoping for.

January 21, 2024
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  • Gisele Grayson

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  • Opinion

Global wishes for 2024: Pay for family leave. Empower Black men. Respect rural voices

We asked leaders in global health and development to share their wishes for the new year. Here's what they hope will happen in the year ahead. And readers, we'd like to hear from you.

January 04, 2024
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  • NPR Staff
First graders from The Friends School of Atlanta share their hopes for the world.

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We asked for wishes, you answered: Send leaders into space, free electricity, dignity

Send leaders into space for perspective, tap solar power to offer electricity for all, make "dignity" a priority — those are some of the wishes readers have for 2023.

February 05, 2023
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By:
  • Carmen Drahl,
  • Gisele Grayson,
  • and 1 more
An self-portrait of Deena Mohamed, author of the graphic novel <em>Shubeik Lubeik — </em>a fantasy story of making wishes in modern-day Egypt.

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This graphic novel imagines what would happen if you could buy and sell wishes

Artist and author Deena Mohamed created a graphic novel about how wishes would — or wouldn't — work in modern-day Egypt. Her much-praised book is now out in English. It's ... a wish come true!

January 14, 2023
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By:
  • Malaka Gharib

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