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

    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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  • Brothers Empowered to Teach: 'Planting seeds for that next generation'

    August 28, 2022 |

    The Advocate |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Brothers Empowered to Teach provides a paid fellowship to train Black men to be teachers. The organization focuses on the development of the whole person, from character building and life skills to teaching experience. They have placed over 170 people in classrooms since its inception, providing visibility and representation for young children to see people who look like them in careers they may not have thought possible for themselves.

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  • Bruised South Sudan Employers Figure it Out: Bring Attitude, not Diplomas or Skills, to Job Interviews

    August 26, 2022 |

    TIME of the World |

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    Response Location: South Sudan

    Employers like the St. Partick Clinic in South Sudan are hiring based on attitude and trainability instead of technical skills and knowledge to find employees that are trustworthy and reliable.

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  • How Delta community developed other professions to survive oil spill

    August 10, 2022 |

    The Nation (Nigeria) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Delta

    As a result of incessant oil spills, a rural community that once relied on fishing for food and its main source of income has begun to diversify its skills and occupations by pursuing more lucrative jobs like tapping rubber trees and growing cassava. Pivoting their occupations has helped to keep families out of poverty, children in school and keep the village’s economy afloat.

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

    August 05, 2022 |

    Legit.ng |

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    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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  • SCAF is driving inclusion of sickle cell warriors in Nigeria's tech industry

    July 24, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Sickle Cell Aid Foundation teaches tech skills to those with sickle cell anemia to increase their employability and spearhead an inclusive tech industry. Since launching, the organization has trained and graduated 20 individuals with coding skills.

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  • A Mentorship Programme Is Turning Young PWDs Into A Thriving Workforce

    July 22, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Peniel Foundation virtually connects people with disabilities with mentors to help them learn to achieve their goals, level up their career skills to access to better jobs and become financially independent. Since forming, the foundation has seen thousands join the program and go on to have great success in their careers and personal lives.

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  • This San Francisco Supper Club Gives Youth a Chance to Reinvent Themselves

    July 18, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Old Skool Café provides opportunities for youth, particularly those who were formerly incarcerated and/or in foster care, to gain life skills, job training, and receive help managing their finances, writing resumes and cover letters, build people skills, and strengthen interpersonal communication. The restaurant allows the youth to train for every position in an industry that generates 25% of the area’s jobs.

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  • The new labor market: No bachelor's required?

    July 08, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States

    Employers across the United States are dropping the bachelor’s degree requirement from job listings, but workers need an alternative way to build necessary skills. The nonprofit Social Finance helps workers take time for skills training with financial aid for things like child care, rent, and transportation.

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  • In Nigeria's Underserved Communities, Teach For Nigeria Improves Education Quality

    June 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In a country where less than 6% of public funding is allocated to education, under-resourced schools are able to hire quality teachers through Teach For Nigeria, a nonprofit that trains and deploys teaching fellows to communities in need. Fellows have been placed in 396 schools since 2018 and go on to complete personal projects that support the school system, such as a solar-powered computer hub developed by one alumnus.

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