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  • Youth-led NGOs are battling period poverty in Nigeria. Their weapon is reusable pads

    August 02, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    One Voice Initiative for Women and Children Emancipation and Reaching Minds Foundation are two organizations that have distributed thousands of reusable pad kits to school girls and women. The organizations also train people on how to make their own reusable pads from environmentally friendly fabrics and use them correctly.

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  • A non-profit is using artificial intelligence to link blood donors

    August 02, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    J Blood Match uses an Artificial Intelligence program-bot embedded into the social media platforms Telegram and Facebook messenger to connect unpaid blood donors to recipients in need.

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  • Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

    August 02, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    The nonprofit Wild Horse Fire Brigade wants to place wild horses in select wilderness areas of California to graze as a way to prevent wildfires.

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  • An evolving role for colleges: Training former substance abusers to be part of treatment teams

    August 02, 2022 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The City University of New York’s College of Staten Island is among a handful but growing number of colleges that are offering peer advocate training programs to former substance abusers. These certified trainings are enabling vulnerable adults to pursue higher education, acquire skills, and use their experience to not just find employment but also support patients with recovery.

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  • Liberia: Fighting Deforestation with Waste

    August 01, 2022 |

    Liberian Observer |

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    Response Location: Liberia, Brewerville

    Green Gold Liberia makes briquettes charcoal to replace wood-based charcoal and fight deforestation. Their charcoal requires no trees to be cut down because it is made from leftover wood, sawdust, and agricultural waste like coconut shells.

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  • Limited access to financial services pushes informal business owners to embrace classical saving schemes

    August 01, 2022 |

    Royal FM |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    Savings groups called Tontines gather members engaged in informal business, like street merchants, to access financing through peer-to-peer banking and lending. Tontines allow lower-income individuals who typically fail to qualify for bank loans to access financial services and learn to save and manage their money.

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  • Free school meals helped families during the pandemic. This fall, those lunches won't return.

    August 01, 2022 |

    The 19th |

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    Response Location: United States

    Several studies have shown the link between universal free school meals and higher academic performance, improved nutrition and health, and better behavior. Children who deal with food insecurity often receive “most of their dietary needs at school.”

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  • For the many or the few?

    August 01, 2022 |

    When the People Decide |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    In Florida, formerly incarcerated people were at the forefront of efforts to rally support for a ballot initiative to allow residents with certain felony convictions back into the voting booth. Amendment 4 was successfully passed, restoring voting rights for many formerly incarcerated Floridians, and research studying other ballot initiatives in the United States has shown that these direct referendums have given the majority of the country's population policies that they approve of.

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  • Nigerian advocate who launched mobile app to tackle GBV

    July 31, 2022 |

    African Women in Media (AWiM) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The CampusPal mobile app is a safe, confidential place for students at colleges in Nigeria to report cases of sexual assault and gender-based violence.

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  • Group seeks to turn Arizona's primaries into nonpartisan elections

    July 30, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    States such as Washington and California have nonpartisan "top-two" primaries, in which the top two vote getters move on to the general election regardless of their party affiliation. In Washington, voter turnout in primary elections has jumped from 18 percent in 2003, before the law went into effect, to nearly 55 percent in 2020.

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