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3,000 Rohingya refugees train to tackle natural disasters

Kelli Rogers

August 02, 2018 |

Devex |

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Response Location: Bangladesh, Cox's Bazar

Bangladesh has become a leader in disaster preparedness through its strategy of training thousands of community members to give early warnings on cyclones and other disasters. This approach has saved thousands of lives and has become a model for other countries. Now the country is training Rohingya refugees living in Bangladeshi camps after fleeing persecution in Myanmar to do similar work as they face threats of widespread damage due to cyclones.

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Eight million kids are in care. Brazil found a way to keep them out

Edward Siddons

August 02, 2018 |

Apolitical |

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Response Location: Brazil

Children typically fare better outside of institutional care. Brazil has found success with a program that helps extended family members serve as formal guardians instead. Organizing peer support groups has been particularly helpful for these “kinship carers.”

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Baltimore's homeless veterans get their own free barber shop

Brittany Britto

July 26, 2018 |

The Baltimore Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation is using haircuts to empower people. Specifically, at several centers for homeless veterans in the Baltimore area, new spaces for barbers allow veterans to access haircut and grooming services for free. Haircuts can also be significant in helping veterans get new jobs, and this program is even training some veterans to become professional barbers in the future.

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Checking the blind spot

Blair Stenvick

July 25, 2018 |

InvestigateWest |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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Traditional Birth Attendants: Friend or foe?

Chibuike Alagboso

July 16, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

Throughout rural parts of Nigeria, health care services are often out of reach, putting pregnant women at risk of undergoing an unsafe childbirth experience. Although not without limitations, training women in these areas to act as Traditional Birth Attendants helps fill a small portion of the health equity gap by offering safe-birthing education as well as medical toolkits.

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How to Stop Human Trafficking, Through the Eyes of a Trucker

Joseph Darius Jaafari

July 10, 2018 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: United States

Truckers are ideally placed to spot and report sex trafficking. “They’ve been trained to be vigilant and they’re on the city streets, pulling into areas and being put up in hotels where this happens,” says Kylla Lanier, deputy director for Truckers Against Trafficking.

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Cheap Sensors Are Democratizing Air-Quality Data

Jason Plautz

July 09, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

Spurred by growing health concerns related to air quality, companies and communities have turned attention to creating affordable, portable air-quality sensors. This new development allows citizens to monitor air quality as it directly relates to them, whether it be on a school-ground or even in their own backyard.

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In New York, volunteers engage in a quiet form of advocacy for immigrants facing deportation

Tiziana Rinaldi

July 04, 2018 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Walking with immigrants to their court hearings and ICE check-ins can help them feel supported and protect their safety and rights. The New Sanctuary Coalition has run an accompaniment program since 2007. Volunteers do not interfere with proceedings, but by their presence, they demonstrate community support of immigrants and play witness to interactions between immigrants and government officials.

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With a Sniff and a Signal, These Dogs Hunt Down Threats to Bees

Tejal Rao

July 03, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Jarrettsville, Maryland

Pollinators such as honeybees are critical to the ecosystem and to agriculture - responsible for pollinating about 1/3 of the nation's food crops - but they are endangered due to factors such as habitat loss and fungus that spreads more rapidly in warming temperatures. A program in Maryland is training adopted dogs to more efficiently sniff out harmful bacteria in bee hives and help preserve their populations.

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A unique nature insurance policy aims to preserve Mexico's Great Mayan Reef

Shay Meinecke

June 29, 2018 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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Response Location: Mexico, Cancún

Coral reefs can dramatically reduce the power of a wave's energy, making the impact of severe storms (such as hurricanes) less devastating. In order for this to work, however, the coral reefs have to be healthy. In Mexico, the government and The Nature Conservancy have collaborated with a reinsurance firm, reef engineers and oceanographers to figure out how to create an insurance plan that uses tourism dollars to guarantee reefs will restored should they be harmed.

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