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  • Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

    Indigenous communities are combining traditional knowledge and new technology to improve food production for its people. For example, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma partners with the startup Symbiotic Aquaponic that uses fish and plants in water to grow traditional foods like corn, pole beans, and squash. It can be expensive to get started, but the system uses less water than industrial agriculture and provides key nutrition for members of the tribe.

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  • Entre succès et nouveaux défis : entretien avec un coordinateur des aires protégés en Afrique

    Au Sénégal, l’aire du patrimoine autochtone et communautaire (APAC) Kawawana est née en 2008 de l’initiative de pêcheurs autochtones Jola en Casamance. Cette aire côtière et maritime de 9 665 hectares est entièrement gouvernée, gérée et conservée par les communautés locales. En presque dix ans, ils ont réussi à restaurer une biodiversité presque disparue. Mais avec l'épidémie de Covid-19 elle a dû faire face aux braconniers peu contrôlés par l'Etat et ces espaces naturels sont affectés par le changement climatique.

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  • How Georgia's Latinx community is working to 'out-organize' voter suppression

    Organizers and community leaders in Georgia are pushing back against restrictive voting laws that disproportionately affect communities of color. The Latinx community is mobilizing against those efforts by empowering its members to “unlock their political power.” Their efforts include voter outreach, translation services, and education.

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  • How Kaduna Women Finance Their Healthcare Through Recycled Wastes

    SOSOCARE Healthcare Insurance provides low-income women with health insurance in exchange for recyclable wastes, which they convert to hedge funds to pay for the insurance expansion. The insurance offers different levels of coverage, with the basic one guaranteeing coverage of basic illness treatments for diseases such as malaria and typhoid, including in-patient hospital recoveries, for the women and their families.

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  • Nigerian Rural Community Stuck In Water Crisis. A Nonprofit Takes A Photo, And It Tilts The Narrative

    The Grassroots Aid Initiative uses the power of photography to bring safe drinking water to communities in Nigeria. The women-led nonprofit takes pictures of these villages and uses the images to crowdfund on social media. So far, they’ve been able to bring motorized boreholes in 15 communities to help combat water scarcity.

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  • How poor, out-of-school children gain education in the FCT

    The Knowledge Skills Solution and Creativity (KNOSK) N100-a-Day Charity School provides an education to children in the area who can’t afford to attend school. KNOSK provides STEM education, uniforms, books, sanitary supplies for girls and free meals to each student for just 30 cents a day.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento  

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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  • 3 lessons Washington can learn from how Arizona helps people in mental health crisis

    Arizona’s statewide integrated mental health crisis system includes a hotline, mobile teams, and centers for things like counseling and medication. The system has shown success in getting people with mental illness and substance abuse issues the care they need while keeping them out of jails and emergency rooms.

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  • Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

    The Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy provides Native American patients with their prescriptions for no out-of-pocket expenses and provides culturally-conscious care.

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  • How one New Hampshire sawmill is taking a stand against big timber

    Timberdoodle Farm in New Hampshire provides locally logged and processed lumber for its clients, a stark contrast to larger timber companies which source wood all over the world. For example, the small sawmill produces about 100,000 board feet of wood per year compared with other companies that produce that much each day. The difference is that these smaller operations can better utilize lumber that would otherwise go to waste.

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