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  • From 'Identity Search', She Built A Movement Against Mental Illness

    Ekpali Saint

    August 05, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    Victoria Restored Minds provides therapeutic and emotional support to people facing mental health challenges. With its team of counselors, therapists, and psychologists, VRM has provided counseling, therapy, and general support to about 2,000 people.

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  • Would an innovative approach to child care work in Knox County?

    Cheryl Splain

    August 05, 2022 |

    Knox Pages |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Along the Way is filling a crucial gap in the community by providing in-home childcare services to single mothers who work shifts during the nights or weekends. Through a holistic approach, the organization has enabled mothers to enter or remain in the workforce, ensured fair wages to the caregivers it employs, and is going to start partnering with for-profit employers to make this a community effort.

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

    Umo Akwang

    August 05, 2022 |

    Legit.ng |

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    800-1500 Words

    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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  • A new way to pay for college

    Kenny Malone Jacob Goldstein

    August 05, 2022 |

    NPR |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Income share agreements provide students a new way to pay for college. They receive the money they need by agreeing to give the school a percentage of their future earnings for a set number of years after graduation.

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  • Pakistan's Mangroves Are a Coastal Conservation Marvel

    Marcello Rossi

    August 05, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Pakistan, Balochistan

    Mangroves are biodiverse growths that provide a variety of benefits to coastal regions including food security, a breeding ground for various species and protection from erosion and storms along the coast. Previously destroyed by deforestation, efforts to regrow mangroves are a cost-effective solution to climate change.

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  • Repair Ukraine: How volunteers "clean up after russia" in Chernihiv region

    Maria Smyk

    August 05, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine, Lukashivka

    Volunteers from the Repair Together project travel to liberated towns in the Chernihiv region of Ukraine to clear rubble, so the residents can rebuild their homes.

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  • Plastic pens for chickens reduce plastic pollution

    Dishon Amanya

    August 05, 2022 |

    Look Up TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Utumizi wa plastiki kujenga nyumba ya vifaranga kaunti ya Bungoma inatunza mazingira pamoja na kupunguza gharama ya kujenga nyumba hizo. Kwa kutumia mabaki ya plastiki hususan mtungi za mafuta ya kupika, wafugaji wa kuku wanajenga sanduku zinazotumika kama nyumba ya kufuga vifaranga wa siku moja hadi mwezi mmoja.

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  • Market Center Providing Safe Breastfeeding Space

    Oliver Ochieng

    August 04, 2022 |

    Sasa Radio |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Kaunti ya kisumu na shirika la kijamii la Kidogo limejenga kituo cha kina mama kuingia na kunyonyesha watoto wao katika soko la Kibuye. Kituo hicho kinatoa mazingira mazuri na tulivu ya kina mama kunyonyesha watoto wao. Mama anapofika katika kituo hicho, kuna mhudumu wa afya anayeshika mtoto ili mama aoshe mikono, kisha apewe kiti akae anyonyeshe mtoto. Pia kuna jokovu la kuhifadhi maziwa ya mama kwa walio na maziwa mengi na wengetaka kukamua.

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  • "deposetaplainte.fr" : déposer plainte en ligne pour violences sexuelles et sexistes

    Christine van Geen

    August 04, 2022 |

    France Culture |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: France

    66% des femmes sont mal reçues au commissariat ou à la gendarmerie lorsqu'elles souhaitent porter plainte pour violence sexiste ou sexuelle. Trois jeunes ont créé "Déposte ta plainte" le premier site en France permettant aux victimes de violences sexistes et sexuelles de déposer plainte en ligne. Il a permis de déposer une cinquantaine de plaintes en quatre mois. Si c'est un outil complémentaire aux dispositifs existants, il n'est pas idéal pour toutes.

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  • Is police accountability working in San Francisco?

    Eleni Balakrishnan

    August 04, 2022 |

    Mission Local |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    After San Francisco voters approved the creation of a new Department of Police Accountability to investigate allegations of police misconduct, the body recommended discipline for officers at a higher rate than the state average in 2021. But the majority of cases are still settled in favor of officers and 66 percent of civilian complainants reported being dissatisfied with the outcome of their case, an outcome experts and former employees of the DPA attribute to a lack of independent authority and leadership to wield the agency's powers.

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