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  • 'Deliberative town halls' encourage civil dialogue, OSU institute says

    The Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability's "deliberative town halls" pair willing lawmakers with a random, representative sample of constituents so voters can share feedback and ask questions without being drowned out by the loudest voices in political spaces. All participants are given the same background materials created by a nonpartisan source to inform their discussion, which means there's no squabbling over establishing basic facts, and politicians must adapt to the natural flow of conversation rather than relying on canned talking points.

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  • Young Nigerians are tackling the stigma of mental health

    Having seen first-hand the impact of colonial-era laws and lack of access to professional help on her struggle with depression, Elizabeth Ita founded the non-profit Stilt NG. Since 2019, it has trained 25 young volunteers familiar with mental health struggles themselves to create awareness on mental illness, reduce stigma, and encourage help-seeking behavior for other youth in the community.

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  • Standup comedy course for men at risk of suicide wins NHS funding

    Comedy on Referral is a course that teaches trauma survivors how to do standup comedy, giving them a new way to process their trauma and feel empowered.

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  • Malabar Care Connect reduces healthcare barriers for students and families

    A health center based in a school provides free services to students and their families to help children succeed academically.

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  • Helping First-Generation Students Reach College — and Build Community on the Way

    Yonkers Partners in Education is a nonprofit making college more accessible for low-income students of color through mentorship and tutoring.

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  • Hopes abound as Myanmar curriculum reaches Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh

    The Myanmar Curriculum pilot project provides education to Rohingya children living in Bangladeshi refugee camps. The students attend classes in both English and in Burmese, which ensures that the children will know their native language and facilitate an eventual return to their country. There are 3,400 learning centers serving 300,000 students that are run by UN agencies and NGOs, where the successful pilot project will eventually be scaled to.

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  • One Square Meal a Day – Home-Grown Feeding Programme Keeping Niger State Children in School

    The Home-Grown School Feeding Program provides one square meal a day to students in public primary schools in an effort to combat poor school attendance and malnutrition, feeding thousands of students each day. In addition to improving the economic conditions for farmers and food vendors, as well as rates of malnutrition, the program has led to a 35.6% increase in school enrollment.

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  • How a majority BIPOC worker co-op is disrupting the field of therapy

    The Alliance Psychological Services of New York is a worker cooperative- meaning it is owned by those working there and everyone is a part of the decision-making process. This model allows workers to choose more sustainable practices and workloads. They also have the freedom to better care for their clients with practices like sliding-scale-based payment.

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  • ‘I had to be broken to be fixed': the courses trying to change abusive men

    LifeLine is an intensive, multi-week course that works with perpetrators of abuse to encourage behavior change in them. It is run by My CWA, one among a growing number of non-profits that have been accredited by Respect, UK's lead organization for programs for perpetrators, to run similar courses that follow carefully drafted principles. The aim has been to support survivors of domestic abuse more holistically by addressing the root cause, and now with compelling evidence to show that the approach works, the Home Office has also come aboard.

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  • Una cocina que libera: las raíces de la gastronomía costarricense y sus productores

    Los cocineros y productores que conocen las tradiciones culinarias de los pueblos originarios en Costa Rica están creando nuevas cadenas de valor y, poco a poco, sensibilizando a más personas sobre esta herencia gastronómica. La iniciativa Sikwa Restaurante ha contribuido a ese proceso desde un barrio en la capital.

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