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  • The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

    February 16, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, West Kalimantan, Borneo

    The Power of Mama is an all-female firefighting unit that protects the health and livelihoods of the local community and environment by working with village authorities to educate local farmers on safe practices to prevent wildfires and preserve the ecosystem. The unit formed in 2022 with just 44 volunteers, but has since grown to 92 members aged 19 to 60 across six villages.

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  • Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

    February 09, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Siquijor

    A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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  • Reclaiming Our Homes

    February 09, 2024 |

    Latino USA |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Moms for Housing reclaim vacant homes owned by investors to provide a place for single mothers to live. Advocating for housing as a human right, 13 organizers are currently living in these unoccupied houses and through civil disobedience, managed to negotiate temporary housing as they continue fighting for permanent solutions to the area’s housing crisis.

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  • Solar States

    February 08, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Philadelphia-based company Solar States offers a paid training opportunity for city residents to learn to install solar panels and earn the necessary credentials to help them start careers in the industry. The company’s newest program, Find Your Ladder, is a training opportunity for people who have been through the criminal justice system.

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  • Campesinos nicaragüenses impulsan modelo de producción autosustentable en Costa Rica

    January 26, 2024 |

    Voice of America (VOA) |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    En una zona rural de Costa Rica, un grupo de campesinos nicaragüenses forzados a salir de su país logró levantar una comunidad productiva. Rentaron varias manzanas de tierra para trabajar en la agricultura y la ganadería, como lo hacían en su natal Nicaragua. Informa Donaldo Hernández.

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  • NM endowment offers perpetual funding source for rural libraries

    January 26, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, New Mexico

    The New Mexico Rural Library Initiative advocated for an endowment fund to create a perpetual funding source for a group of community libraries in small, low-income towns. The money in the fund is invested, and the interest earned is distributed to the libraries each year.

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  • Activists Win a Battle for Women's Reproductive Healthcare in a Rural Colorado Town

    January 16, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Cortez, Colorado

    Local activists are joining together to protest the potential closure of Southwest Memorial Hospital’s birthing center, advocating and organizing to ensure the hospital stays open and locals can access the care they need in rural areas.

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  • 'It's very Philly, and it's very in your face.' Volunteers knock on doors to aid literacy

    January 16, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Philadelphia |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Through community events, direct outreach, and resource sharing, Philadelphia’s reading captains help local kids build early literacy skills while supporting families to make reading part of their daily home life.

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  • Learning from storms past, a community plans together to prevent disasters

    January 09, 2024 |

    Rappler |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Philippines, Malabon

    The community in Malabon, Philippines, worked with a nongovernmental organization to create a contingency plan for tropical storms. Tasks like search and rescue and resident relocation are divided between community leaders, and local input makes the plan more actionable and effective than a top-down approach.

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  • Solar Pumps Are Empowering Women Farmers in India

    January 05, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India, Harpur, Bihar

    In the Indian state of Bihar, women-led self-help groups are challenging traditional gender norms and saving money to buy and install solar irrigation pumps. The pumps increase the local agricultural capacity by providing a cleaner, more affordable alternative to the diesel pumps typically used to combat water scarcity in the region.

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