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From Fish Waste to Community Wealth

Meenakshi J

March 17, 2022 |

Hakai Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Chennai

A government agency in India is turning fishing waste into useful commodities, which help both the environment and the community. Discarded fish parts often littered the beaches near fish markets, leaving a stench and a mess that stigmatized the neighborhood. Now the parts are being processed and sold as fertilizers leading to a cleaner community, less waste, and a much-needed alternative source of income in the fishing community.

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Reimagining a Differently-Abled World

Adhiambo Edith Magak

March 16, 2022 |

The Elephant |

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Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Kenya

Riziki Source helps people with disabilities access job opportunities through their disability-friendly website.

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Albion, investing in itself, shows how small towns can thrive

Matthew Hansen

March 11, 2022 |

Flatwater Free Press |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Albion, Nebraska

A number of new amenities and businesses in Boone County are the result of fundraising and community development. Local leaders have brought nearly two dozen new major projects to completion in the past ten years. Almost all of the money has been raised by local residents as a result of a “years-long effort to educate residents about the importance of keeping some of their money in their hometowns.”

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In Holland People With Dementia Can Work on a Farm

Elizabeth Hewitt

March 07, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Netherlands, Brielle, Holland

Care farms in the Netherlands allow people with dementia to work alongside farmers in joint responsibility and decision-making. This work provides physical and emotional benefits like movement, social interaction, and a sense of purpose.

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Meet the women turning porridge into energy saving briquettes

Faith Walucho

March 04, 2022 |

African Women in Media (AWiM) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu

A group of women (and five men) called the United Destiny Shapers makes briquettes to sell to their community as an alternative to burning charcoal. It’s a cleaner energy and costs less than charcoal. Marketing their product is still a challenge, but their operation has allowed many of its participants to pay their bills and support their families.

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Appalachian Virginia Needs Workers. This Program Is Trying to Bring Them In.

Brian Carlton

March 01, 2022 |

100 Days in Appalachia |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Virginia

A program is paying certain professionals to move to rural Virginia. In exchange for $12,000 paid toward student loan debt, people who take hard-to-fill jobs must commit to staying for two years and performing 50 hours of community service. The grants have gone to teachers and people who work in technology and computer science.

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Are community jobs the solution for Missouri's sheltered workshops?

Madison Hopkins

February 23, 2022 |

The Kansas City Beacon |

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Response Location: United States, Sedalia, Missouri

Even as several states banned subminimum wages for disabled workers and adopted versions of the "employment-first" legislation in the country, the Center for Human Services became an anomaly when it closed its sheltered workshop programs in Missouri where they find immense support. In the last five years, the non-profit has focused, instead, on helping adults with disabilities gain employment in traditional jobs in their own communities and earn minimal wages.

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ResQZone

Amanda Anderdson

February 08, 2022 |

KWCM-PBS |

Broadcast TV Programs |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Marshall, Minnesota

An e-waste recycling program in Minnesota aims to take old computers that normally end up in a landfill and give them to community members with income-based needs. Since the ResQZone initiative started as a partnership between a nonprofit and the county government, they’ve been able to get 420 computer systems back into public use. They also hire and train people with disabilities to do the refurbishing.

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Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

Elizabeth McGowan

January 25, 2022 |

Energy News Network |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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Driving change: the all-female garage shifting attitudes in northern Nigeria

Abiodun Jamiu

January 12, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto, Sokoto State

An all-female mechanic staff is turning heads in Nigeria. Their workshop provides jobs to dozens of women who have limited work opportunities in the region. The female staff also breaks barriers in a society where only men have typically worked as professional mechanics.

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