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  • ‘Bring the things to the people': Why tenants and experts want more vaccination options

    June 15, 2021 |

    TVO |

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    Response Location: Canada, Hamilton, Ontario

    After a COVID-19 outbreak at a Hamilton apartment complex, officials began offering on-site appointments, particularly for people who are homebound. About 1,400 people have gotten the shot at their residence and many more at pop-up clinics. The decentralized approach is more resource intensive but is effective at reaching people at high risk for contracting the virus. Doctors at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine used the patient-centered approach to vaccinate a pre-identified list of Scarborough residents, mapping routes to ensure vaccines were used up within their six-hour time limit.

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  • Michigan's free tuition program is showing early success

    June 14, 2021 |

    WXMI-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    A new initiative in Michigan is helping locals over the age of 25 attending community college free of charge. The Reconnect program helps those who have yet to complete a post-secondary degree by covering all the costs of either starting or finishing community college degrees. So far, the program has helped enroll over 70,000 people in the state.

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  • Internet from the moon: Varsity scholar nurtures his concept on inexpensive internet.

    June 11, 2021 |

    Zulani |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    To make internet connectivity accessible and affordable across Africa, Dr. Harold Omondi developed “internet from the moon,” a technology that uses satellite dishes to communicate with transponders placed in the moon several years ago by NASA. The transponders can send and receive information and, since the moon keeps the same side of its surface pointed towards earth, the connection cannot be lost. Still in the piloting phase, the system currently offers free internet at Jomo Kenyatta University, where over 1,200 people login every day, and has another station in South Sudan serving 300-500 people daily.

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  • This Fitness Entrepreneurship Course Is a Second Chance for the Formerly Incarcerated

    June 09, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    People who spend their time in prison getting physically fit might seek to turn what they've learned into a job as a fitness trainer, once they're released. But felony convictions act as a barrier to such jobs. A Second U Foundation, founded by a formerly incarcerated man who faced such barriers, provides an eight-week course in running a fitness-training business. Of the 200 people who have taken the course since 2015, three-quarters have been hired by health clubs, while the others started their own businesses. Foundations and grants foot the bill so that the training is free.

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  • Sustaining the Work of Artists With a Living Wage and Benefits In Western Massachusetts

    June 09, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, including healthcare, which resulted in responses to issues like youth mental health, food justice, and COVID-19 awareness campaigns in communities that are marginalized. From empowering youth to build community through food and farming to engaging young queer people of color, the successful six-month pilot led to a new fundraising campaign to continue and expand to seven regions across the U.S.

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  • The Shot And A Shave: Inside A COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic At A Nashua Barbershop

    June 08, 2021 |

    New Hampshire Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashua, New Hampshire

    Community health workers are engaging small business owners to host local COVID-19 vaccination clinics. These smaller clinics, like La Fama 2 Barbershop, are effective because of the strength of interpersonal relationships. At the barber shop, the atmosphere is relaxed and the owner knows the needs of his customers. To make the information and vaccines accessible to the local Latino community, the clinic held Saturday afternoon hours and community health workers were present with information in Portuguese and Spanish. It helps for friends and families to get vaccinated together, among people they trust.

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  • Recovered Covid Patients Send Their Leftover Meds to Those in Need

    June 08, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    Volunteers with India’s Meds For More initiative (MFM) collect leftover unused medications from recovered Covid-19 patients by canvassing their apartment buildings, offices, student clubs, schools, and other locations. Once collected, MFM distributes them to NGOs licensed to work in the health sector, who transport the medicines to marginalized communities in urban and rural areas. Medical professionals sort and pack the medicines and give them to local hospitals and health care centers, who distribute them to patients. The success of the program has inspired similar initiatives in several other cities.

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  • Can a Radical Treatment for Pedophilia Work Outside of Germany?

    June 07, 2021 |

    Undark |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin

    Prevention Project Dunkelfeld is "arguably the world's most radical social experiment in treating pedophilia." Its prevention-first approach to providing treatment to people who are sexually attracted to children means that it encourages people to volunteer for treatment and disclose past and planned crimes without the threat of being reported to authorities and punished. German law makes this possible, but in most places such crossing of lines from thoughts to action would be grounds for mandatory reporting. This policy and the program's disputed claims of effectiveness have drawn harsh criticism.

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  • Some Minnesota school districts made changes to grading systems during pandemic to help protect GPAs, they may not go back

    June 06, 2021 |

    The Bemidji Pioneer |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    In St. Paul, Minnesota, the St. Paul school district switched from a letter grade structure to a pass/fail system. A trend that was seen across other districts in the states. The move came after the pandemic resulted in an increase in students failing classes across the district and was part of a “do no harm” philosophy. Data shows the change helped some students and some said they felt more supported. The move is part of a larger effort the district is trying to prevent students from failing like credit recovery.

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  • Community Ambassadors Are the Link to Toronto's Unvaccinated Populations

    June 04, 2021 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

    Toronto’s Vaccine Engagement Teams Grant has awarded $5.5 million to community organizations in 140 neighborhoods to hire and train local ambassadors for vaccine outreach. Because the ambassadors share a lived experience with the communities, they can effectively identify the barriers people face. The on-the-ground effort includes sharing information, advocating for community needs, and helping people access services. The outreach focuses on people often overlooked by government services, such as unhoused people and people who do not speak English or have precarious immigration status.

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