Positive stories from around the world that you might have missed this week
From British pubs finding new ways to serve locals to volunteers making masks for homeless people, here are five good news stories you might have missed this week:
Volunteers turn gigantic AIDS Memorial Quilt fabric into coronavirus masks
An army of volunteers in California is using extra fabric from the AIDS Memorial Quilt to make face masks for U.S. homeless people and frontline workers during the new coronavirus crisis.
"Sewing is how I chose to memorialise my friends I've lost to AIDS," said Gert McMullin, who has been sewing as a volunteer since the giant tapestry was conceived by a gay rights activist in 1987.
Last orders? How Britain's community pubs are fighting to survive the coronavirus crisis
With makeshift shops and takeaways, community-owned pubs find new ways to serve locals during COVID-19.
"We have had really heart-warming responses from the community, saying how pleased they are to have such a supportive pub team," said Mike Hobbs, chairman of the community group that owns the pub just outside the southern city of Oxford, referring to the army of volunteers delivering food to those in need.
Chile charts path to greener, fairer future after coronavirus
Chile is now the second South American country after Suriname - and the seventh in the world - to publish an updated national climate action plan under the Paris Agreement to curb global warming. As Chile fights COVID-19 against a backdrop of unresolved social tensions, the plan is to not only tackle climate change but also protect the rights and living standards of vulnerable groups.
Rani Bibi was married off as a child and wrongly imprisoned for nearly 20 years over the murder of her husband. Sentenced to life in prison in 2001 at only 13 years old, and following a series of errors that left her locked up, Bibi is now free and fighting for compensation in a test case for thousands of other false convictions.
Canada earmarks aid for indigenous communities to prepare for coronavirus
Canada will spend $130 million ($94 million US) to help its remote northern territories prepare for the coronavirus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday, earmarking funds for indigenous people highly vulnerable to a public health crisis.
