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  • 'Pain In My Heart': Fighting Unemployment From A Nonprofit Perspective

    March 16, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu

    A Nigerian nonprofit is providing skills to unemployed youth who are facing a tough job market with rising unemployment rates. The Kennedy Care Foundation offers free training in various skill sets: hair styling, makeup artistry, photography, video editing, and baking as well.

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  • Switching Charcoal Burning To Beekeeping To Protect Environment

    February 22, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Former charcoal producers in Rwanda are leaving behind an environmentally taxing livelihood and make a steadier livelihood by learning a new trade — beekeeping. In 2021, an organization known as The APIARY started training people in six Rwandan districts, where over 28 people were trained to train others in their communities. So far, those who have switched have seen their income triple.

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  • A Program for Youth Is Reshaping Arts Education in Chicago

    February 21, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The National Museum of Mexican Art’s Yollocalli Arts Reach provides space for young people to collaborate with each other, work with mentors, and gain exposure to different art forms and creative skills. Yollocalli serves Chicago’s youth in predominately Latino neighborhoods and focused on free art programming, mentorship, and career support. The programming emphasizes creativity as a tool for youth to learn to express their needs, share their ideas, and influence their environment. Nearly 3,000 teenagers and young adults have participated in Yollocalli’s programs with forty lead artists.

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  • Making IDPs dream of moving out of camps possible

    February 07, 2022 |

    Media Career Development Network |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Skilled Women Initiative trains women trains displaced women living in camps on various skills they can use to make money and find jobs, empowering them to one day leave the camps. The initiative has trained about 700 people in skills like textile upcycling, crochet, sewing, and soap making. It also educates those in the program on how to develop a business plan to sell their goods and services and connects them with job referrals outside of the camps.

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

    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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  • This NGO's Strategy Helps Ex-convicts Avoid Repeating Crime

    December 13, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    In the nine years since its founding, Dream Again Prison and Youth Initiative has helped more than 2,000 incarcerated Nigerians prepare for success in work and life after they leave prison. Using mental health support, vocational training, and financial aid after graduates leave prison, the program works in six prisons in an effort to combat the country's rising recidivism rate. Much of the focus is on helping would-be entrepreneurs start their own businesses rather than rely on existing businesses that may not want to give the formerly incarcerated a second chance.

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  • How role-playing helps police do their job without firing their guns

    December 12, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States

    Training courses based on role-playing that supplement classroom teaching have helped some police departments reduce incidents of unnecessary use of lethal force. In response to protests over police shootings, more departments are using a variety of courses that train officers to seek alternatives to shooting when they perceive a threat. The most expensive and intensive course uses live actors. Others use video and virtual reality headsets. The key to effectiveness is the realism of a training that lets officers repeatedly act out the lessons so that they become second nature.

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  • St. Paul police credit jiu-jitsu training for reducing injuries — and excessive force settlements

    November 28, 2021 |

    Twin Cities Pioneer Press |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    When St. Paul police studied controversial cases in which officers used physical force, they found troubling examples that were products of the training given to officers. So they began training new and veteran officers to use tactics inspired by the Brazilian martial art jiu-jitsu, which prizes teamwork by two officers to use leverage to restrain resistant people rather than using brute force, weapons, or chemicals. In the six years after the training began, St. Paul officers used force far less often, injured far fewer people, and cost the city much less money in settlements payments.

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  • Police Have a Tool to Take Guns From Potential Shooters, but Many Aren't Using It

    November 15, 2021 |

    Wall Street Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Nineteen states and Washington, D.C., have added red-flag laws in recent years. Also called extreme risk protection orders, or temporary risk protection orders, the laws give police and the public a way to seek a court order to confiscate the guns of a person deemed dangerous. San Diego County used available grant money from California to train police and prosecutors, and it now has used its state law more than any other county there. But many places in the U.S. use their laws rarely if ever, thanks to lack of interest or training among police and lack of awareness in the public.

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  • Meet the amazing people rewriting the narrative about LGBTQ youth homelessness

    November 10, 2021 |

    LGBTQ Nation |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Ali Forney Center is the largest of several organizations across the country serving LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness. It has seventeen sites and serves about 2,000 young people a year, nearly half of whom come from out of state. In addition to setting people up with stable housing, the drop-in center serves daily meals and offers showers and laundry. Advocacy programs and case managers help the youth find permanent jobs, further their education, or put funds aside to secure stable long-term housing. They also offer counseling services, support groups, and temporary employment for many young people.

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