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  • Society for Family Health: Leveraging Digital Platforms to Train Family Planning Service Providers

    Chibuike Alagboso

    January 16, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu

    The Society for Family Health developed a digital learning curriculum that intends to improve the knowledge base and train healthcare providers on how to properly administer hormonal IUDs. The digital training is available on the global learning platform Kaya and has proved to not only be more convenient and accessible, but is also more cost effective than traditional, in-person training.

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  • Sauce Milwaukee delivers meals the hard way, to anyone who needs them

    Joan Elovitz Kazan

    January 16, 2023 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Sauce Milwaukee is a bicycle-based meal delivery service aimed at combating food scarcity. The organization feeds between 30 and 80 people a week and specializes in plant-based meals prepared with food donated by grocery stores, restaurants, and food banks.

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  • In Virginia, carbon emissions drop as data centers boom, thanks to RGGI pact

    Elizabeth McGowan

    January 16, 2023 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    Virginia’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative helped reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants by 12% because of the agreement’s carbon cap on utilities’ fossil fuel use that lowers yearly.

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  • A Florida School Received a Threat. Did a Red Flag Law Prevent a Shooting?

    Sheryl Gay Stolberg

    January 16, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

    Amidst gun violence and mass shootings, 19 states and D.C. have enacted red flag laws, or extreme risk protection orders, that allow law enforcement to mitigate threats of gun violence by removing guns from a person’s possession. Studies in states that have adopted red flag laws, specifically Connecticut and Indiana, have found that for every 10 to 20 people who had guns taken away, one life was saved.

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  • Conservationists Are Saving America's Prairies by Selling Them Off

    Marcello Rossi

    January 16, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Nature Conservancy uses conservation easements to protect prairie land in Oregon. These legal agreements allow landowners to sell their land to the conservancy but continue to use it for activities like farming and ranching.

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  • Crop of the future? More climate-hit Kenyans count on fish farming

    Caroline Wambui

    January 16, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibingo

    The Kirinyaga county government is helping Kenyan farmers build fish ponds and supplying them with their first stock of fish and food in an effort to diversify their incomes while adding rainwater storage amid the drought.

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  • Is plastic waste the building material of the future?

    Désiree Schneider

    January 16, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Bukit Lawang

    The use of plastic waste as an affordable building material is rising in popularity. One option is turning the waste into “Ecobricks” by tightly packing it into a bottle with a stick. A German organization called Project Wings pays locals in Bukit Lawang, Indonesia, to collect plastic and make bricks to be used for buildings.

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  • Project Zero, an Initiative that's reducing the number of out-of-school children in Lagos

    Blessing Oladunjoye Onochie Edward

    January 16, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    Lagos' Project Zero program worked with teachers, youth organizations, and other groups in the education space to reach out to parents of students who had dropped out of school during the pandemic. The program provided them with school kits including everything they needed to re-enroll, such as books, uniforms, shoes, and other supplies.

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  • Yadda matasar garin Kara suka maganje rashin ruwa a al'umma

    Kamaldeen Muhammed

    January 14, 2023 |

    Arewa Radio 93.1 |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Mutanen Kara sun samu walwala daga tafiyan kilomita 21 kafun su samu ruwan sha. Masu bada ruwan suna karban N5 domin kula da pampun burtsatsen da kuma sayan main petrol na ganereto.

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  • These queer organizations are providing free binders to people in New Brunswick

    Maddy Mahoney

    January 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Saint John, New Brunswick

    The LGBTQ2S+ organizations Chroma N.B. and QT Fatties work together to provide free chest binders to New Brunswick residents.

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