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  • Nurturing the Nurturer: Promoting Adequate Nutrition for Pregnant Women in Sokoto State

    April 10, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    The Save the Child Initiative, in collaboration with the Society for Women Development and Empowerment in Nigeria, is working to ensure that expectant mothers receive proper nutrition during pregnancy so they can deliver healthy babies. The initiative provides iron and folic acid supplements, nutrition counseling, hosts antenatal clinics, and even travels door-to-door to provide education and care to those in need.

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  • Portage Public Schools get proactive, invest in mental health

    April 10, 2023 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Portage, Michigan

    Some districts, like Portage Public Schools, are offering school-based mental health care to improve students’ overall well-being, school performance and greatly increase access to care. The use of school-based healthcare is on the rise, as more than 22,000 students received services from a school-based mental health services provider during the 2021-2022 school year, compared to just 8,885 from 2019-2020.

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  • Through joyful play of Sibshops, youngsters find new ways to relate to siblings with disabilities

    April 10, 2023 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Sibshops connect children with disabilities with their siblings through the power of play to prevent the child without disabilities from fading into the background as parents juggle the needs of the other child. Sibshops allows participants to share their experiences, ask questions and offer advice. Studies show Sibshops participants have increased empathy for people with disabilities and better relationships with their siblings. The first Sibshop opened in 1982, and today, there are more than 550 Sibshops across 15 countries.

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  • Wind of Change: Energy Blows Across Nebraska Thanks to Wind Farms

    April 10, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Petersburg, Nebraska

    Alongside clean energy, wind farms built on property leased from locals in Nebraska are generating jobs, income, and local taxes that keep small towns like Petersburg afloat.

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  • The Mexican women breathing new life into Yucatán's mangrove forests

    April 10, 2023 |

    El País |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Yucatan

    A group of women from a fishing village in southern Mexico are restoring mangroves on the Yucatán Peninsula. While the group, known as las chelemeras, is reviving the local ecosystem, the members also find personal empowerment from the work and the pay.

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  • How one Indian village is lighting the way in green energy drive

    April 09, 2023 |

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    Response Location: India, Hengbung, Manipur

    A first-of-its-kind renewable energy system in Hengbung, India, creates hydropower with solar pumps to prevent the community from experiencing prolonged power outages during extreme weather. At the same time, the project is increasing India’s renewable energy capacity.

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  • Grand Rapids' major effort to fundamentally reform behavioral health services becoming a model for others

    April 09, 2023 |

    MLive.com |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Rapids, Michigan

    Organizations like Network 180 are working to pair social workers with law enforcement to answer 911 calls to redirect those in need of care away from jail or emergency rooms, where people experiencing a mental health crisis are often sent. The group has also helped establish a peer respite center and a separate space for psychiatric patients at an area emergency room. These efforts are all done to establish a continuum of care in local behavioral health services, providing alternatives to incarceration and inpatient treatment.

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  • Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change

    April 09, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Every year, investors who are shareholders in publicly-traded companies have the chance to vote on proposals that shape the way the companies address issues like climate change. Whether or not they pass, climate-related proposals send a clear message about the problems activist investors want to see addressed which can spur action.

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  • Civic participation, trust, getting to know people: Together Baton Rouge gets things done

    April 09, 2023 |

    NOLA.com (The Times-Picayune) |

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    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    Together Baton Rouge connects different organizations and individuals to collaborate on important community issues, such as advocating for needed infrastructure work. The group helped bring about the restructuring of a corporate tax break program that brought in $282 million in revenue in 2021.

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  • BikeAthens Provides Transportation Equity

    April 08, 2023 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Athens’ poverty rate is 28.8%, making it difficult for some locals to afford cars and other means of transportation. BikeAthens donates bikes to those in need, hosts “Fix Your Own Bike Nights” and teaches classes on bike safety and how to ride to provide residents with an accessible means of transportation. The nonprofit donates about 100-120 bikes each year.

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