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  • Young Somalis Step In Where Government Fails

    February 16, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Somalia, Mogadishu

    After three decades of war and famine, Somalia's capacity to respond to emergencies and rebuild its country has been significantly diminished. To pick up the slack, young Somalis, many of whom have returned home from abroad, are stepping in to volunteer their services, from rehabilitating child soldiers, sparking tourism, addressing humanitarian crises, and even organizing book fairs.

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  • Finding patients where they live: Street medicine grows, along with homeless population

    February 16, 2020 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Doctors from USC have formed a small street team that travels to homeless communities to treat medical concerns and help provide assistance. Part of a growing trend around the United States, these teams are playing a vital role for the homeless by eliminating barriers such as the need to "schedule an appointment, find transportation to the clinic, pick up prescriptions, or pay for their treatment."

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  • Poor credit is a barrier to affordable housing. Lending circles are a tool for those in poverty

    February 14, 2020 |

    Desert Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Coachella Valley, California

    Lift to Rise, a Coachella Valley nonprofit that pushes for housing and poverty policy change, launched a local lending circle program aimed at serving minority residents break the cycle of poverty. Partnered with San Francisco-based Mission Asset Fund, the lending circle helps those with poor credit or no credit at all to build up a spending history, have access to loans, create a savings account, improve their score, and more. Since 2008, Mission Asset Fund has partnered with more than 50 organizations across the U.S. to provide lending circles to more than 9,000 clients.

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  • Seattle nonprofits and Zillow launch affordable housing search tool

    February 14, 2020 |

    HousingWire |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The City of Seattle partnered with Zillow to create a searchable database of affordable vacant rental units. Case managers are using the tool to get homeless residents into housing.

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  • Can restorative justice bring peace to the schoolyard?

    February 14, 2020 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: Canada

    A Catholic high school in Ontario is leading Canada's efforts to use restorative justice and mediation strategies in the classroom. The school has found that students who go through this process often don't get in trouble again.

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  • Mending broken Nigerian talent

    February 14, 2020 |

    The Mail & Guardian Online |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Sports medicine has been an underutilized field in Nigeria, but a sports medicine physician and the head of surgery at a local hospital in Lagos are working to change that through education and partnerships. “We already have established professional players coming from outside the country to get care here in Nigeria,” Onimisi Salami, the head of surgery said. “It’s a slow process, but we are on track.”

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  • Sisters of Medical Missionaries of Mary provide free surgery to fistula patients

    February 13, 2020 |

    Global Sisters Report |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Uyo, Akwa Ibom

    In Nigeria, many women who develop fistulas don't seek help due to lack of access to quality health care in the region, but Sisters of Medical Missionaries of Mary have opened a free clinic to help fill the gap. The clinic not only provides necessary medical procedures but also conducts regular community outreach campaigns to identify women who may be suffering and educate others how to identify and prevent the condition.

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  • How America's shrinking cities can 'rightsize'

    February 13, 2020 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United States

    Once-bustling cities contend with population decline by rethinking their use of space for those who remain. Baltimore, New Bedford, and Youngstown have implemented strategies that range from knocking down abandoned houses and factories to developing community gardens and creating public waterfront spaces. Racial and class tensions have arisen when choosing where to spend limited government funding.

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  • Meet Pakistan's Barefoot Entrepreneurs

    February 13, 2020 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Sindh

    Pakistan's poorest citizens, who previously panhandled for their basic needs, were launched onto an entrepreneurial path by the Heritage Foundation Pakistan. Eight impoverished communities have been trained in the craft of glazed tile work and terracotta art to lift the participants out of poverty. The program also created a market of interdependence, so the villages can purchase goods from one another, freeing them from relying on cities for their livelihood.

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  • Solving crimes, acing tests, building bridges. What this Fresno school program does right

    February 13, 2020 |

    The Fresno Bee |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    A career technical education program in California exposes children to work in fields including biotechnology, business, marketing, and psychology, and has been shown to improve test scores. The twist? The program is run and funded jointly by two districts with widely varying socioeconomic demographics.

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