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  • New Transport Regulations Reducing Road Crashes in Uganda

    April 28, 2023 |

    Radio Sapientia 94.4FM |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Uganda

    New, detailed driver badges, and bus route charts are reducing dangerous crashes involving buses on roads in Uganda. In an attempt to weed out incompetent bus drivers, they are now legally required to have a badge that includes information like their license number, training information, and the company they work for.

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  • Students, Teachers Say AP African American Studies Course Was a Success

    April 24, 2023 |

    Time Magazine |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Advanced Placement African American Studies, a pilot course created by College Board, explores African American history and culture with the goal of covering events and concepts not often taught in high school classrooms. Students in the pilot program say the course gave them a deeper perspective on African history and helped them contextualize current events.

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  • Queens pols unveil winning participatory budgeting projects

    April 24, 2023 |

    Queens Daily Eagle |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Through participatory budgeting, New York residents can propose and vote for community improvement projects through their local city council. In one Queens City Council district, more than 2,300 people aged 11 and up voted to allocate funding to five projects, including new trees and sidewalk guards, new X-ray equipment for the area hospital, and a hydroponic science lab for a local school.

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  • Nigerian man with diabetes teaches kids with the disease how to live longer

    April 20, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Isara, Ogun State

    Talabi Diabetes Centre provides support and education to children living with diabetes in Nigeria, including through an annual camp weekend where participants learn about healthy foods, exercise techniques, and self-injection of insulin. Roughly 60 kids have participated in the camps since 2015.

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  • Are 'sponge cities' enough to curb climate-fuelled floods?

    April 18, 2023 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The design firm Arup calculates cities' ability to retain water through nature and helps them implement other solutions to flooding, like building rain gardens or public messaging strategies, depending on individual needs.

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  • Our home is where we live: volunteering school for teenagers

    April 17, 2023 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine, Vinnytsia

    The Donetsk Regional Children and Youth Center runs the Technology of Good Volunteering School, a program designed to help teenagers build social and civic skills and learn how to contribute to their communities. Graduates have spearheaded projects such as creating a children's room for a local hospital and sewing baby clothes for new mothers.

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  • For the American Prison Writing Archive, a 'Shadow Canon' Sheds Light

    April 17, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    The American Prison Writing Archive documents firsthand accounts of living conditions inside roughly 400 correctional facilities in the United States. The collection includes more than 3,300 narratives that are used to build awareness around the realities of the criminal legal system.

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  • Restoring Hope For The Displaced Girl In Nigeria's Borno State

    April 16, 2023 |

    HumAngle |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

    After a local school was destroyed during conflict with Boko Haram, Mallam Thabit began offering night classes for girls who were left without access to education. Thabit advocated for the school to be rebuilt and helped establish a new education program.

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  • Here's Makoko Dream School Project; an initiative that's breaking barriers to education among children in Lagos waterfront

    April 13, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos State

    The Makoko Dream School is a tuition-free education program serving students who live in waterfront areas. The school is funded through a Parent/Teacher Association levy and has served roughly 1,000 children so far.

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  • During Lent, some UK dioceses give up fossil fuel investments for good

    April 04, 2023 |

    EarthBeat |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The 40 Days, 40 Dioceses campaign leaders spent Lent working to convince dioceses in the United Kingdom to give up financial holdings in fossil fuels permanently and publicly. The campaign, led by the Christian climate group Operation Noah, highlighted a different diocese every day.

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