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  • A few tablets a day keep rickets away

    July 20, 2022 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Hope for the Village Child Foundation provides rickets treatment to children via a daily dose of calcium. Treating rickets allows children to live more comfortably, avoid missing school, and being bullied by their peers. Since the 1990s, about 4,257 children have benefited from the rickets project.

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  • This small city ditched its buses. Its public Uber-like service has been a big hit

    July 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilson, North Carolina

    A small North Carolina city replaced its bus system with on-demand minivans to better serve residents. In a collaborative effort with the company Via, which provided software, vehicles, and drivers in exchange for city funding, the service runs about 3,700 trips a week and covers 100% of the city, increasing accessibility for residents.

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  • Bridge: The technological innovation reducing delays in breast cancer diagnosis

    July 19, 2022 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Bridge app helps reduce delays in accessing breast cancer diagnosis and improves health outcomes for women in rural areas. The app provides health workers with information on symptoms to look out for and how to perform exams in hopes to promote early breast cancer detection.

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  • Two Cities Took Different Approaches to Pandemic Court Closures. They Got Different Results.

    July 19, 2022 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Wichita, Kansas

    To curtail the societal ripple effects of prolonged court closures, Kansas' Sedgwick County courtrooms reopened with precautions just four months after initially shuttering due to COVID-19, and later brought in retired judges to help work through the court's backlog of cases. The Wichita court was able to perform more criminal jury trials at the height of the pandemic than other cities and actually saw homicides decline in 2021 as the nationwide murder rate climbed.

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  • This deposit-free apartment plan could be life-changing for Philly renters

    July 18, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Rhino is a startup that partners with property owners to offer renters the option of paying the company a monthly fee instead of an upfront deposit. In exchange, Rhino insures the apartment against wear and tear damages. There is no approval process, Rhino covers anyone that a property owner approves to rent, but the renter’s employment status and credit score determine their monthly premium, which can be as little as $5 for a monthly rent of $1,000.

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  • What the Weeds Are Telling Us

    July 18, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Arkansas

    The Palmer amaranth weed improves the health of disturbed soils like agricultural fields. Throughout its lifecycle, the plant’s deep roots loosen the compacted soil, bring nutrients to the surface and utilize excess nitrogen in the soil.

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  • When healers need help: Recovery programs for health care workers offer specialized care

    July 16, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    Centers like Brattleboro Retreat are emerging to provide specialized recovery programs for healthcare workers battling addiction. Programs offered are similar to those at standard recovery centers, except here healthcare workers are surrounded by their professional peers, allowing them to find community and express vulnerability.

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  • The Address of the Future

    July 15, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Pune

    Unique codes created by Google are providing address to millions of Indians who lack home addresses. Known as Plus Codes, they have enabled homes to be easily found via Google Maps, opening up a number of services previously denied to the unaddressed.

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  • The Indigenous cafe using native cuisine to help its chefs fight addiction

    July 13, 2022 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: White Mountain Apache, United States, Whiteriver, Arizona

    Café Gozhóó is a restaurant and vocational training program at the Rainbow Treatment Center, which is operated by the White Mountain Apache tribe. Café Gozhóó uses the kitchen to teach therapeutic skills – connecting with ancestral foods, stress management, and teamwork – to people recovering from substance abuse. Café Gozhóó is also filling a critical gap in access to care as many mainstream recovery programs are located far from Native American communities and often lack counselors trained in culturally competent care.

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  • In California Cities, a New Frontier for Public Financing of Elections

    July 13, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    To give less affluent political hopefuls a fighting chance in local races, Seattle's "democracy vouchers" program provides each resident with four $25 vouchers to donate to candidates of their choice. The initiative has nearly doubled the number of candidates running for city positions since 2015, and those using the vouchers are more likely than cash donors to be young and low-income, leading other cities, such as Oakland, Calif., to consider adopting similar programs.

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