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  • Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

    May 24, 2023 |

    The Imprint |

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    Response Location: Luiseño, United States, San Diego, California

    My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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  • Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

    May 23, 2023 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Vienna’s public housing is affordable, full of economically diverse residents, and extremely popular. The housing units are open to almost anyone, as 80 percent of residents qualify, and once you sign a rental contract it doesn’t expire even if your income increases. Plus, the rent can only go up based on inflation if it increases by 5 percent in a year.

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  • Vote like Voters in Minneapolis

    May 23, 2023 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    For its mayoral elections, Minneapolis uses ranked-choice voting, a process that allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference rather than choosing just one. The system, along with the state's culture of civic engagement and its ease of voting, is believed to have contributed to record-high turnout during the 2021 election, when more than half of registered voters in the city cast a ballot.

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  • How success coaches anticipate and tackle college students' challenges

    May 23, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Dallas College’s success coaches provide more hands-on advising for students, helping them not only navigate their coursework and degree trajectory but also connect with resources such as help with transportation and food aid. The college has nearly 240 success coaches serving more than 64,500 students.

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  • Bashir Fistula Foundation Provides Care and Support to Ailing Women

    May 23, 2023 |

    KAFTAN TV |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Bashir Fistula Foundation provides healthcare and connections to necessary medical resources to women suffering from obstetric fistula. Most all surgeries to cure the condition are fully paid for through partnerships between the Foundation and other organizations and medical centers. So far the Foundation has funded more than 100 surgeries.

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  • The Ancient 'Wonder Material' Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere

    May 22, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    When organic materials like wood chips and manure are heated in the absence of oxygen they create a black powdery substance called biochar. This material prevents the release of carbon into the atmosphere from the natural decaying process. And it has other beneficial uses like improving soil fertility, too.

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  • I-WASH: Improving Access to Water Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Kebbi State

    May 22, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kebbi

    The I-WASH program aims to combat waterborne diseases and address challenges facing communities without access to clean water. The program has built toilets in schools, provided handwashing facilities, as well as a solar-powered borehole and educational services on sanitation practices and how to maintain the water points. Through the help of the I-WASH program, as of May 2022, 300 functional toilets had been built in households across more than 30 communities.

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  • “Vieques is our home”: 24 years of the Vieques Women's Alliance

    May 21, 2023 |

    9 Millones |

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    Response Location: Puerto Rico, Vieques

    The Viequense Women’s Alliance combines the knowledge from community youth and experienced advocacy mentors to develop community leaders who are educated on current issues and technology. Women of all ages join together to advocate for their human rights.

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  • Whanyinna: A floating school defying odds to educate Makoko's waterfront children

    May 21, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos

    Whanyinna is a floating primary school, providing education and opportunity to children in a town where fishing has historically been the top priority. With support from volunteer teachers, more than 300 students have received basic education in subjects like English, math and science, giving local youth a new sense of hope and self-worth.

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  • OJU ELERI: The radio program holding power to account in Osun State

    May 20, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    Urban Alert is a civic-tech organization that aims to hold government officials accountable through broadcasting corruption complaints on the radio and social media, documenting evidence of uncompleted public projects, and filing Freedom of Information Act requests. The organization has reportedly helped resolve more than 300 complaints, including issues related to electrical infrastructure, road construction, and health care systems.

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