This is the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

I'm Julia McFarlane and in this edition,

how old family letters inspired a project

offering fatherly love and support to daughters around the world.

I tell them right away that I'm proud of them,

but that their fathers don't want them to grieve.

I'm immensely proud of my dad and really excited for how much of a difference we can make.

Also, he's down at the water and he's loving life.

I am incredibly happy because I see him having fun.

I also get to clean up the environment. I call it a match made in heaven.

An unusual pair of rubbish collectors finding joy in clearing plastic from the seas. I find out why

old-fashioned hobbies like knitting are becoming increasingly popular with Gen Z.

And teaching cooking helps us learning new skills and become part of the community.

The cooking classes where people learn about more than just food.

We begin in the US state of Ohio with the joy and warmth that handwritten letters can bring.

Rosie Pollock grew up receiving almost daily letters from her dad Buzz

whenever she was away from home, at summer camps, college, and even when she

moved into her first apartment just 20 minutes away. So when she sensed he needed a new project,

she came up with the idea of offering Buzz's letter writing skills to others. They called it

the Dad Letter Project, with the tagline, Mail, that'll make you smile or cry in a good way

and were overwhelmed with thousands of requests from all over the world. Our reporter Harry Bly

spoke to Rosie and Buzz. I learned that it's important to write letters from my mother who wrote letters to me when I started going to camp when I was 11 years old.

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