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Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

Patrick Obia

July 04, 2023 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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How a Nigerian NGO is Empowering the Next Generation of Leaders

Taiwo Fatola

July 04, 2023 |

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Response Location: Nigeria

LEAP Africa is a Nigerian-based NGO that has helped thousands of students (in 26 Nigerian states and 8 African countries) develop leadership skills through a series of programs in partnership with various universities. Many program graduates have gone on to solve problems in their local communities by implementing their newfound skills, but some students struggle with limited internet access.

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Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

Laura Joffre

July 04, 2023 |

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Response Location: Peru

Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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Moved by Experience: PWD-led Initiative is Building Safe Space for Persons with Disabilities in Borno

Yahuza Abdulkadir

June 28, 2023 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri

Via educational workshops, the provision of mobility devices, and entrepreneurial support, a Polio-survivor-led initiative in Nigeria is reducing stigmas about disabilities and helping eradicate polio diseases. Since 2017, the crowd-funded group has assisted more than 200 people with disabilities and reduced the number of folks who have to ask for alms on the streets.

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Can the bioeconomy replace oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon?

Gabriela Barzallo

June 22, 2023 |

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Response Location: Ecuador

Communities in Ecuador are building a “bioeconomy” through ecotourism and sustainable agriculture instead of relying on oil extraction. This can help protect the country’s biodiversity and increase locals’ incomes.

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What Ohio's Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Thriving Union Co-op Network

Cinnamon Janzer

June 21, 2023 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

Modeled after Spain’s Mondragon, an organization that helps develop cooperatively-owned businesses, Co-op Cincy is a nonprofit incubator helping businesses in Cincinnati, Ohio, do the same. The organization runs an educational course to teach teams everything they need to know, provides access to loans, and has ongoing technical assistance for its co-ops.

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ENUGU: gate pass to early marriage no more

Makinde Ajayi Alfred

June 21, 2023 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

The Women Information Network’s Right to be a Girl project provides scholarships to girls who would otherwise be forced to drop out of school, many of whom are vulnerable to child marriage. The program has supported 573 students in schools across Enugu state since 2021.

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This NYC elementary school wants to serve everyone, including kids with complex disabilities

Alex Zimmerman

June 20, 2023 |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

At P.S. 958 in Brooklyn, students with and without disabilities learn together under an inclusive model. Initiatives such as the AIMS program, which is designed for students with autism, allow the school to serve students who might otherwise be segregated in more restrictive settings geared only toward those with disabilities.

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In spite of Rising Insecurity, Unemployment in Nigeria: an NGO is Supporting Internally Displaced women with Soft, Hard Skills

Daniel Adaji

June 19, 2023 |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

The Skilled Women Initiative training and impact fund trains women in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, on marketable skills, like sewing, to help them make money and eventually afford to open their own businesses and leave the camps. So far the Initiative has trained over 1,500 women across several states.

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Ex-female refugee conserving South Sudan's disappearing forest

Richard Sultan

June 19, 2023 |

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Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

Vivian Kide learned to build fuel-efficient stoves in a Ugandan refugee camp to use less charcoal and prevent deforestation. When she returned home to South Sudan, she began building stoves for other women in her community and teaching them how to do so themselves.

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