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In this week’s Pulse we hear from students in Kenya who feel overworked at school and find out what their relationship to their teachers is like in the country. A young man in South Africa is supporting scholars in rural areas using bicycles. And university students in the UK get to pat animals to combat test anxiety.

A new electronic music project with a difference is teaching respect and tolerance in South Africa. Put down your smartphones – an old past-time is making a come-back in a big way –and it might just help you score a date! We hear from revelers in Cologne about how they feel about going out in public following several attacks in Germany. And, we meet some of Africa’s potential future young leaders.

This week on Pulse we are on shifting ground where we meet French university students helping refugees integrate into society and get ready to be charmed by a street opera singer in Los Angeles.

In pulse this week, we’ll hear about health vloggers in the UK, meet a young Cameroonian lady using theatre to create awareness about maternal health care and find out how Germany is coping with an increasing number of STIs (sexually transmitted infections).

We talk changes - changing your life, changing others’ lives – for the better. We meet a group of students in Cape Town broadcasting their very own radio show. Make your taste buds water as we head to a food workshop with a difference. And, find out why gender reassignment surgeries are big business in India. Plus, Ethiopia runs into trouble with 69 million unusable condoms.

We talk changes - changing your life, changing others’ lives – for the better. We meet a group of students in Cape Town broadcasting their very own radio show. Make your taste buds water as we head to a food workshop with a difference. And, find out why gender reassignment surgeries are big business in India. Plus, Ethiopia runs into trouble with 69 million unusable condoms.

Jordan's Zaatari camp is home to some 80,000 Syrian refugees - many of whom are children. Fleeing civil war in their homelands has forced these kids to grow up fast. But one man is helping them to be kids again.

More than a million refugees arrived in Germany last year but finding a place for them to sleep has been a challenge. Two student entrepreneurs in Berlin say they've designed a product that could offer a solution.

This week on Pulse: Why Syrian refugees are turning to Shakespeare, how to realize a dream based entirely on cardboard, and meet the Honduran artist who seeks out danger.

Today on Pulse - we will make your taste buds water as we head to a special café in Turkey which is helping change people’s attitudes towards disability. Learn the dos and don’ts of how to eat. Plus, a coffee cart with a difference in Australia is changing the lives of people who are homeless. All that and more coming up on this jam-packed edition of Pulse with host Jessie Wingard.