- Barry Brindley Leeds, England A retired school administrator has raised money which has helped to build classrooms, libraries, day centres, science laboratories, and provided much-needed medical and educational equipment, with at least one large container of supplies sent to Malawi, where he once taught, each year.
- David Flatau Devon, England A retired teacher keeps in contact with many of his former students through Facebook and has always enjoyed songwriting.
- Otmar Gotterbarm Bad Urach, Germany A retired teacher, who, as a child, had witnessed a bomber crash near his home, researched the event for a book. Eventually, after learning the story of a ring that someone found at the site, he organized a ceremony in which it was returned to the fallen Canadian airman’s family.
- Mavis Griffiths Abergavenny, Wales A retired teacher answered an ad to go to Patagonia, Argentina, to teach Welsh to classes aged from children to adults.
- Sevim Kuşçu Istanbul, Turkey A retired teacher has hosted young guests for iftar (fast-breaking dinner) during Ramadan for several years.
- Avril Lethbridge Oxford, England Unhapy with witnessing bad manners of children, a retired teacher makes ‘Good Manners’ app: Nice Bear, Naughty Bear.
- Irmela Mensah-Schramm Berlin, Germany Regardless of conditions facing her, retired special-needs teacher combats neo-Nazi and racist graffiti on the walls of her city.
- Valeria Palmieri Bologna, Italy A retired teacher set up an institution that provides high quality education to poor, needy, and destitute children of the south of India.
- Ruby Porter Allerton, England A textiles and embroidery teacher set up textile workshops in Bangladesh to help women to earn a living for their families.
- Maria Rafferty Donegal, Ireland After retiring, a teacher goes to Ethipia where she set up an English language improvement centre in a university on seeing the problems of teachers of English.
- Eva Retkin London, England A retired teacher claims that children who can recognize the letters of the alphabet can be taught to read in just seven days and proved it for thirty years.
- Greg Reynolds Graigwen, Wales A retired headteacher is project officer for a charity that is rebuilding schools in Rwanda.
- Sissel and Osvald Rydjord Sandefjord, Norway A retired teaching couple with 80 years of experience between them enjoy numerous hobbies, including genealogy, local history, and a web site.
- Steven Weinberg Luxembourg A retired teacher drove his 50-year-old Renault C4 car 33,113 kilometres in travelling around the world in seven months.
