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  • Black and Hispanic Students Find Their Voice Through Civics Education in Sacramento

    August 08, 2022 |

    The Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Sacramento's Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Center offers a civics education program where students of color can learn about movements spearheaded by marginalized people, connect with like-minded peers interested in making change, and develop their voices as advocates. Students have gone on to intern at City Hall, advocate for issues like improved WiFi access and higher teacher pay, and even work for the center themselves.

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  • Liberia: Fighting Deforestation with Waste

    August 01, 2022 |

    Liberian Observer |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Brewerville

    Green Gold Liberia makes briquettes charcoal to replace wood-based charcoal and fight deforestation. Their charcoal requires no trees to be cut down because it is made from leftover wood, sawdust, and agricultural waste like coconut shells.

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  • For the many or the few?

    August 01, 2022 |

    When the People Decide |

    Podcast |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In Florida, formerly incarcerated people were at the forefront of efforts to rally support for a ballot initiative to allow residents with certain felony convictions back into the voting booth. Amendment 4 was successfully passed, restoring voting rights for many formerly incarcerated Floridians, and research studying other ballot initiatives in the United States has shown that these direct referendums have given the majority of the country's population policies that they approve of.

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  • Limited access to financial services pushes informal business owners to embrace classical saving schemes

    August 01, 2022 |

    Royal FM |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Savings groups called Tontines gather members engaged in informal business, like street merchants, to access financing through peer-to-peer banking and lending. Tontines allow lower-income individuals who typically fail to qualify for bank loans to access financial services and learn to save and manage their money.

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  • How religious worship is boosting conservation in India

    July 26, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India

    Sacred groves in India protected by religious practices, culture, and communities are helping country-wide conservation efforts for greenery and endangered species.

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  • El poder de la esperanza, el poder de los pares en la atención a la salud mental

    July 21, 2022 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    El Recovery Institute of Southwest Michigan, Inc., usa un método que se llama apoyo entre pares (emparejando personas con experiencias similares) para ayudar el proceso de recuperación. El Recovery Institute ofrece grupos, clases, reuniones individuales y reuniones sociales, y su también participan en actividades de divulgación en la comunidad. En los últimos años, el Recovery Institute ha atendido a miles de personas.

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  • Collaborating To Save Women's Lives At Child Birth: A Case Study of Emewe-Opada

    July 17, 2022 |

    Nigerian Pilot News |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Emewe-Opada, Kogi State

    A rural community that struggles to access emergency healthcare is working together to reduce maternal mortality during childbirth by pooling resources, funds, and expertise to provide care at a community-run clinic. Since beginning their efforts, mortality has been reduced by 40%.

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  • ‘It's a beautiful thing': how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality

    July 14, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    The République des Hyper Voisins, or the Republic of Super Neighbors, is an experiment organized by residents of Paris's 14th arrondissement to encourage community engagement, combat social isolation, and improve how the neighborhood functions. The group has organized mutual aid efforts, installed compost collection points, facilitated the launch of a new health clinic, and given residents opportunities to weigh in on local development projects.

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  • How trees are helping this war-torn city heal after ISIS

    July 10, 2022 |

    Mic |

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    Response Location: Iraq, Mosul

    After years of war left the city of Mosul without the greenery it had come to be known for, an initiative called Green Mosul organized a volunteer tree-planting campaign that aimed to bring together people of different backgrounds and religions and rebuild community bonds. Through the project, volunteers planted roughly 17,000 trees, and plans are in the works to replicate the effort in other post-conflict cities.

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  • Metering Utah's secondary water may help overuse in drought

    July 07, 2022 |

    KSL-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Cities in Utah are installing secondary water meters to track how much water residents are using on their lawns. This allows residents to see their usage, compare it to the recommended amount, and cut back when necessary.

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