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  • Salem looks to solution-based housing for those experiencing homelessness

    April 26, 2022 |

    KGW-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    Micro-shelters with on-site case managers give people experiencing homelessness a stable place to live while connecting them to medical care and job opportunities.

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  • Brasiliens Paketdienst in den Elendsvierteln

    April 25, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil

    Millionen von Favela-Bewohnern in Brasilien sind vom Online-Shopping ausgeschlossen, da Lieferdienste Überfälle auf Transporter fürchten. Givanildo Pereira hat deshalb einen Paketdienst für sein Armutsviertel gegründet – und seine Erwartungen nach anfänglichen Schwierigkeiten bereits übertroffen.

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  • Jukyty: Una lucha ciudadana por la memoria histórica

    April 25, 2022 |

    El Otro País |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Paraguay

    Asociación Cultural Jukyty, formada principalmente por docentes e historiadores, logra reinvindicar las tierra de su comunidad que fueron testigos de una histórica y heróica batalla de más de 3000 niños en 1869. Pero además, convierten esta iniciativa inicial en una manera de revalorizar y organizar el aservo cultural de su comunidad, a pesar de la falta de apoyo político y ciudadano.

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  • La plaza que se convirtió en un centro de cultura al aire libre

    April 25, 2022 |

    El Otro País |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Paraguay

    Una comisión vecinal logra transforma una plaza abandonada en un espacio de recreo para los miembros de la comunida de todas las edades. La misma comisión y los demás miembros del barrio, asumen el mantenimiento y la organización de actividades, que va desde bibliotega para niños, festivales de arte, espacios para la recreación y el deporte. Sin embargo, las acciones aún esperan apoyo gubernamental.

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  • Public Libraries Are Making It Easy to Check Out Seeds—and Plant a Garden

    April 25, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

    More and more public libraries around the United States are creating seed libraries as a way to encourage gardening, combat hunger insecurity, and build community resilience. For example, the Jefferson Public Library in Georgia has seen the number of people using the seed library grow to more than 300 in 2021. It can be a lot of work to maintain the seed libraries, but some librarians see it as a way to engage the community.

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  • How Los Angeles Became the Leader of a Tree-Planting Revolution

    April 22, 2022 |

    Outside |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    City Plants, an organization in Los Angeles, is partnering with other nonprofits, government agencies, scientists, and residents to create a more equitable urban forest throughout the city. By working together and using technology, they have planted more than 65,000 trees to combat climate change, systemic racism, and high temperatures that affect all Angelenos.

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  • More and more St. Louisans are using Via, the microtransit service. Could its success become a problem?

    April 19, 2022 |

    St. Louis Magazine |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    Via teams up with public transit agencies like Metro to offer low-cost rides on demand by using an app to catch a ride. Via aims to address transit deserts, where people don’t have ample access to public transportation stops.

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  • In this Mississippi city, public art points a way forward

    April 12, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

    The Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art has designated the city as a public art city, with as many as 46 public art installations across the city, including 35 murals. It intends to grow to 100 public art murals. The city hopes that the public art will attract tourists and economic development, but the primary goal is to develop and beautify communities for the people who live there. Public art raises morale and connects people to one another. It also creates a shared sense of pride in the city and rises the collective mood.

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  • Brasilien: Gärtnern für ein besseres Leben

    April 11, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Brazil

    Einst lebten hier Crack-Abhängige und es türmten sich Abfallberge, heute bewirtschaften Bewohner der Favela in Rio de Janeiro den größten gemeinschaftlichen Gemüsegarten Lateinamerikas. Der Anbau schafft Jobs für Menschen in materieller Not und versorgt gleichzeitig das Viertel mit frischem Bio-Obst und Gemüse.

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  • Que Viva El Barrio: One neighborhood's decades-long fight for a less-polluted future

    April 08, 2022 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

    Documentary |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Barrio Logan, California

    Residents in Barrio Logan have been fighting for years for policy changes to minimize industry in the area and make the community less polluted. After a decades-long battle, the city council recently passed an act that no new industry can come to the area and created housing-only sections for residents to live comfortably.

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