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At Fly Compton, the sky's not a limit. Neither is race.

Marlon L. Dwight

September 07, 2022 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Compton, California

The nonprofit Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation provides affordable flying lessons for marginalized youth to help them get careers in the aviation industry.

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What It's Like To Make A Film Almost Entirely In Prison

Ryan M. Moser

September 07, 2022 |

The Huffington Post |

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Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Inmates taking a credit-bearing film course through Miami Dade College created a short film while inside Everglades Correctional Institution in Florida. The program helps incarcerated students get credits towards degrees and gain skills they could use for employment when they leave.

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For Nigerians hoping to study abroad, there are many hurdles to scale

Gbadegesin Adeyanju

September 05, 2022 |

Platform Times |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The i-Scholar Initiative is one of a growing number of individual and organizational efforts to support Nigerian students looking to study abroad. The initiative helps fund the cost of international graduate examinations, provides scholarships to fund their education, and connects students to peer mentors who can guide them through the application and admission process.

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How a St. Louis church is teaching teens to fly. ‘It really changed everything for me.'

Erin Heffernan

September 04, 2022 |

St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Missouri

The six-week, all-expense-paid, Red Tail Cadet Program teaches high school students to fly and prepares them to pursue a pilot’s license or study aviation in college. The flight school gives students an opportunity they might otherwise be unable to afford with hopes of diversifying the industry.

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District buy-in crucial to making Fredericktown latchkey program work

Grant Pepper

September 03, 2022 |

Richland Source |

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Response Location: United States, Fredericktown, Ohio

A latchkey program made possible by a variety of community support provides a place for elementary students to be cared for before and after school if their parents cannot drop them off or pick them up at the designated times.

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How Telementoring Programme Aided Sudan's Fight against COVID-19

Sharon Atieno

September 02, 2022 |

Science Africa |

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Response Location: Sudan

To make healthcare more accessible and relieve overwhelmed medical centers, Sudanese American doctors used telementoring to train over 400 medical students across Sudan in the necessary skills to serve their local communities.

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One at a Time: Male-Led NGO Helping Female Students Gain Admission in Sokoto

Abdullah Tijani

August 31, 2022 |

Foundation for Investigative Journalism |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State

The Kanwurin Daku Education Support Foundation provides free additional classes on weekends to prepare young women to apply to tertiary educational institutions.

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Waste Data Center Heat Is Warming Up Dublin Homes. Is It Working?

Aishwarya Jagani

August 31, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: Ireland, Dublin

Ireland’s energy efficiency agency, Codema, and Amazon partnered to use waste heat from data centers used for computing needs to heat council buildings and a university campus.

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The 9-euro ticket was a success for Germany, research shows. What's next?

Denis Balgaranov

August 30, 2022 |

The Mayor.eu |

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Response Location: Germany

The popular “German 9-euro ticket” was a transportation experiment that allowed people to buy a month-long ticket for local and cross-state public transport on trains, trams and buses for just 9 euros. With about half of the country using the ticket in any given month, it replaced about 10% of car trips and reduced around 1.8 million tons of CO2.

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Germany's Ultra-Cheap Train Ticket Saved 1.8 Million Tons of CO2

Stefan Nicola Josefine Fokuhl

August 30, 2022 |

Bloomberg |

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Response Location: Germany

A low-cost monthly public transportation ticket experiment in Germany encouraged commuters to use their cars less preventing 1.8 million tons of carbon emissions.

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