Global Us: What connects us all

Richmond Hill Prison on the Caribbean island of Grenada runs on biogas. A small generator on the prison farm provides enough of it to cook and bake with. It's a rehabilitation project that benefits the whole island.

Tielle is a treat from the southern French port town of Sète. It's a savory pie made with tomato sauce and chopped squid. Tielle is popular throughout France as a tasty snack, but it’s also eaten as a main dish.

Oysters from Mexico’s Pacific coast are especially prized. They are harvested after one year of growth. In the village of Boca de Camichin in the Mexican state of Nayarit oysters are so cheap they're snack food.

100% renewable energy - El Hierro, the smallest of the Canary Islands, wants to be the world's first island to cover its energy needs without fossil fuels. Even so, more than half of its electricity still comes from its conventional generating station.

Residents of southern Thailand's Koh Klang island love roti. It's paper-thin dough is made from flour, eggs, butter, condensed milk, water and salt. Then they're filled with bananas or an extra egg. Even without filling - they're delicious!

Sherin Khankan is the daughter of a Christian and a Muslim. In 2016 she founded a mosque in central Copenhagen. She wants to challenge the view of Islam as a religion that hates non-believers and combat Islamophobia.

A free, basic income project was launched in the Namibian village of Otjivero. Every resident under retirement age received 100 Namibian dollars a month. How did this experiment change the villagers' lives?

At 'Grandma's Kitchen' in Tel Aviv, treat yourself to home-cooked food, made by actual grandmothers The specialty of the house is kzizot, a savory meatball with Middle Eastern seasoning served in a tangy tomato sauce.

Konstantinos Kouvaras had to make a change. The 32 year old engineer couldn't find work in his field in Greece due to the financial crisis. He and his wife decided to leave Athens and open a custom design T-shirt shop in Nafplio.

16-year-old Khalil Martínez lives in San Ignacio in Belize. He loves reggae and plays in a band. He’s convinced that everyone on earth has a special purpose. Khalil says he wants to help people in need.