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  • Ending the infection that scrapes eyes blind

    June 20, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Yendi

    Trachoma is a debilitating disease in which the eyelids turn inwards, causing a person's eyelashes to repeatedly scrape and eventually scar their eyes causing excruciating pain and blindness. The World Health Organization has come up with a four step solution to the problem; surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvement.

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  • What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool

    June 19, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    When a group of preschool teachers in Ghana were taught about child-centered and open-ended learning as an alternative to a traditional rote memorization approach, they saw improvements in students' pre-literacy and pre-numeracy scores. The intervention served as a response to revelations of poor performance among early elementary school students. This despite the fact that 80 percent of 3 year olds in Accra, Ghana were enrolled in preschool. While some teachers have successfully rolled out the collaborative style in their classrooms, others have been met with significant cultural resistance.

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  • For just $5, you can now start a responsible investment portfolio

    June 19, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Newday Investing is a an app that allows people to begin impact investing with as little as $5. While attempting to engage millennials in socially-conscious investing, the investment firm is hoping small investments will lead to larger investments over time. With funds that focus on areas such as gender equality and climate action, Newday Investing is trying to make impact investing more accessible and interesting to young people as well as to bigger investors.

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  • Why Are Millions Paying Online Tax Preparation Fees When They Don't Need To?

    June 18, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    Thanks to an agreement between the U.S. government and a consortium of companies including Intuit and H&R Block, 70 percent of taxpayers are supposed to have access to free online tax preparation services. But Free File is confusing and poorly publicized. Only about 3 percent of eligible tax returns over the last 16 years used the system.

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  • Poachers become protectors: How tigers bounced back in an Indian park

    June 18, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: India, Kumily, Kerala

    With poaching on the rise in the South Indian Periyar Tiger Reserve, officials turned to the poachers themselves to see if they could turn their problem into a solution. In lieu of facing charges, the poachers became the protectors and the reserve saw a reduction in poaching all while offering an alternate form of income for the former full-time poachers.

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  • Shots Not Fired: A new Oregon law takes guns from people who may do harm

    June 17, 2018 |

    Oregon Live |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Four months after a law in Oregon took effect that allows removal of guns from people who could present a danger to themselves or others, residents used the law to seek the temporary removal of guns from about 30 people and judges granted 24 of those petitions. The strategy appears to be a promising way to stop would-be shooters. Such laws have proven effective in other states in stopping suicides and in Oregon at least four people who had their guns taken had threatened public shootings.

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  • Cities are getting more crowded: better design could stop violence

    June 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Researchers found that more greenery in urban spaces reduces crime and this idea of combatting crime with good design is part of a discipline called Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, or CPTED. It spread around the world, but there also downsides. A new generation of CPTED advocates are expanding the field to consider social factors underlying crime and engage with local communities when designing projects because just discouraging crime is not enough to make spaces inviting.

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  • Prevention Strategies By And For Local Communities

    June 15, 2018 |

    KUNM |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    The University of New Mexico’s Prevention Research Center is a leading example of community engagement. The Center has undertaken a variety of health-focused initiatives, each with a common core: prioritizing community-centered knowledged and solutions. Their programming is based on years of dissemination and implementation research – figuring out how to take research into communities and prioritizing evaluation.

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  • A Brazilian unimpressed by 'ecological toilets' invents an alternative to flushing

    June 14, 2018 |

    Haaretz |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Flushing a toilet is not only wasteful in terms of water usage, but it is also costly. "Few people know how many liters of water are used, or how much they pay for each liter of water used at home," explains Ezequiel Vedana, the inventor of Piipee - a devise that eliminates the need to flush altogether and has been called a global climate innovation. In fact, when one business tested this devise that emits a deodorizing and decolorizing solution, they saw their water bill cut in half within four months.

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  • A Worldwide Teaching Program to Stop Rape

    June 12, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    A program that trains girls and young women how to defend themselves against rape has proven highly effective in Kenya and is spreading to other countries, including Canada and the U.S. No Means No Worldwide trains girls how to identify risk and escape, and also to stand up for themselves verbally and physically, countering the socialization they get to be accommodating and nice. It also trains boys to respect girls and to intervene when girls or women are in danger and participants were able to stop assaults most of the time.

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