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  • Teachers and Parents as Partners builds teams to help kids

    January 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Crete, Nebraska

    Teachers and Parents and Partners, or TAPP, facilitates communication between teachers and parents to help students who may be experiencing mental health struggles by monitoring and discussing behaviors at home and school. TAPP is being tested in big cities and small towns, but there’s an emphasis on rural school districts.

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  • What can be learnt from an NGO committed to overcoming childhood cancer?

    December 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Children Living With Cancer Foundation works to expand healthcare access for children with cancer through philanthropic efforts like its annual Walkathon, which fundraises to pay the medical expenses for children in the program. Along with expanding access, the organization also creates a sense of community for sick children and their families, having helped 300 children so far.

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  • "I would've been a mum of 3": NGO is empowering girl child from Lagos slums

    December 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos

    The Center for Children's Health Education, Orientation and Protection, or CEE-HOPE, works to address the challenges young girls growing up in poorer neighborhoods face, including lack of education and skills development and high child marriage rates. The organization helps these young girls access education and shelters for those experiencing abuse, helping to better themselves and turn them into advocates for other young girls.

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  • Phoenix nursery provides model solution for newborns exposed to opioids

    December 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    Hushabye Nursery cares for babies born withdrawing from addictive substances they were exposed to in the womb. While the babies are receiving care, the Nursery connects parents with addiction treatment, child services and other necessary resources like housing assistance. Since opening its permanent facility in 2020, Hushabye Nursery has cared for more than 400 babies.

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  • Caring for kids with spina bifida can be difficult, but Nigerian parents are learning new ways of doing it

    November 30, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Festus Fajemilo Foundation teaches parents how to care for children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus and helps fund treatment and surgery costs for families who can’t afford it. The foundation connects with parents through social media, radio, TV, and public lectures like its annual “Go-Folic” campaign which encourages women on the importance of folic acid and has reached 10,000 people so far.

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  • Court program seeks volunteers to help children through legal process

    November 22, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Pima County, Arizona

    Court-appointed special advocates (CASAs) are trained volunteers appointed by a judge to represent a child’s best interests throughout the foster care system and adoption court processes. CASAs spend time with the children to get to know them and their situations, including their medical, psychological and social needs, to advocate on their behalf. The CASA program began in the 1970s; today, there are about 1,000 CASA programs nationwide.

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  • Supporting individuals aging out of the foster care system

    November 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Watkinsville, Georgia

    Lydia's Place works with 17-24-year-olds who are aging out of the foster system or experiencing homelessness. The organization provides housing, support, and education in independent living skills to help them transition into adulthood.

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  • Fostering Hope for children in the foster care system

    November 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Georgia, Jefferson

    Fostering Hope is a community closet that provides new and gently used clothing to children in the foster care system. The organization has helped nearly 2,500 kids get a new wardrobe.

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  • Alleviating food insecurity

    November 16, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    New Path 1010 provides weekend food bags to families in need at 10 schools in Barrow County. The organization distributes roughly 300 bags of food each weekend, and nearly 93 percent of students surveyed said the food bags helped their families.

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  • How Cleft Surgery Unites Families, Saves Lives

    October 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Smile Train is a non-government organization that helps families that are struggling financially to afford cleft lip and palate surgeries for their children in need. Since 2007, Smile Train has successfully paid for 31,000 successful surgeries and has a presence in 45 hospitals across the country.

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