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Digital skills key to improved standard of living for girls, women in Africa

Violet Ikong

August 13, 2022 |

Amjambo Africa |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Malawi

Reach Out to Girls (ROG) works to inspire girls, particularly those in rural areas, to embrace STEM, through mentoring programs and training. Through ROG, professional women in STEM fields serve as mentors and, so far, ROG’s programs have directly benefited more than 200 girls.

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Nigerian Kids With Cerebral Palsy Are Overcoming Discrimination At School, Here Is How

Ekpali Saint

August 12, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

The Let Cerebral Palsy Kids Learn foundation trains Nigerian teachers in how to better serve students with the condition, while also educating parents about cerebral palsy and providing support and assistance to place their children in mainstream schools. The organization has placed more than 100 students in partner schools since 2017 and has trained more than 500 parents and teachers.

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How this California program is making it easier for those leaving prison to earn degrees

Cresencio Rodriguez-Delgado

August 09, 2022 |

PBS NewsHour |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fresno

Through targeted outreach and support across 15 campuses in the California State University system, Project Rebound has helped formerly incarcerated students earn nearly 500 university degrees since 2016, with a recidivism rate of less than one percent. Though the students still face stigma after release, they say Project Rebound provides a safe space for them to find stability and fellowship and connect over shared experiences.

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Church providing vital services to community in need

Diane Duenez

August 09, 2022 |

WXYZ-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

The Cleveland Clergy Coalition pools together church resources to provide community programs, including daily transportation to a manufacturing plant in the suburbs that offers stable, good-paying jobs and benefits. Many of the people who utilize the program were formerly incarcerated and are looking to reintegrate into the workforce.

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Kenyan youth help climate-hit communities prepare for disaster

Kagondu David Njagi

August 08, 2022 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Kenya

A group of young volunteers translate disaster alert bulletins issued by the government drought agency into local languages and then share the alerts by word of mouth and over the radio so that people living in rural areas can take action, particularly receive nutrition aid for their children.

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How a 100-day solution to homelessness could help Knox County

Grant Ritchey

August 08, 2022 |

Richland Source |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Knox County, Ohio

Reinstitute is a global non-profit, focusing on lowering homelessness across the world. The organization works with communities, both rural or urban, and constructs a “100-day challenge” to gather various groups and resources together to make a consequential change in homelessness in 100 days. The program has seen great success across the U.S., most recently housing 1,852 people following a campaign in California.

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Enabled to Enable: How NGO is changing narrative for PwDs in Cross River state

Umo Akwang

August 05, 2022 |

Legit.ng |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

Enabled to Enable provides vocational skills training to disabled individuals. So far, the skills training has reached about 129 women and girls, empowering them to find jobs and even start their own businesses despite their disabilities.

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From 'Identity Search', She Built A Movement Against Mental Illness

Ekpali Saint

August 05, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

Victoria Restored Minds provides therapeutic and emotional support to people facing mental health challenges. With its team of counselors, therapists, and psychologists, VRM has provided counseling, therapy, and general support to about 2,000 people.

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Solar power opens the door to banking for rural Indians

Moushumi Basu

August 03, 2022 |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Maharashtra

In Aitawade Budruk the switch to solar power is not just reducing carbon emissions but addressing issues of frequent power cuts and lack of internet connectivity faced by the local bank. As a result, the bank has opened new accounts at a much higher rate than before, and communities have been able to properly access government financial services for the first time.

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‘Better for democracy': Two US cities offer Arabic voting ballots

Ali Harb

August 03, 2022 |

Al Jazeera |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Michigan

Municipal officials in two southeast Michigan communities exercised their local governing power to bypass federal voting legislation that does not include Arab Americans among the "disenfranchised communities" with a right to receive election ballots in their first language. Through a city council resolution and collaboration among county officials, the Michigan Secretary of State, and Dominion Voting Systems, the cities offered Arabic ballots for the 2022 state primary, which is thought to be the first example of Arabic-language ballots being offered in a state-organized election in the United States.

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