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  • Las Casas Trans en Bolivia: un refugio colectivo que busca cambiar vidas

    April 27, 2025 |

    Red de periodismo Feminista de Bolivia |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    Las Casas Trans son refugios comunitarios creados por y para mujeres trans en Bolivia que ofrecen servicios integrales de salud, apoyo psicológico, asesoría legal y oportunidades de emprendimiento, evolucionando desde espacios de asistencia básica hasta plataformas de emancipación colectiva que han atendido a más de 2,500 personas en cuatro ciudades y se expanden como modelo replicable de transformación social. Puedes leer este artículo en ingles aquí: https://solu.news/nsr4

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  • Amid Ongoing Threats to Local Food Systems, Alaska Native and Rural Alaskan Leaders Imagine Alternatives

    April 23, 2025 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: Metlakatla Indian Community, United States, Alaska

    Gatgyeda Haayk's community garden tackles food access challenges in Metlakatla by patiently building rich soil over many years, enabling diverse crops to flourish despite Alaska's difficult growing conditions. This effort not only provides fresh food but also revitalizes cultural heritage by cultivating traditional plants like "Indian potatoes" and fostering community sharing.

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  • Watanda; The Local Club Helping Low-income Earners Celebrate Sallah

    April 23, 2025 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    To ensure everyone can participate in traditional holidays, community members in Kano practice Watanda, where groups buy a cow directly from a local farmer and divide it among themselves, combating rising meat costs.

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  • Ancient Himalayan Water Temples Are Meeting Modern Needs

    April 15, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: India

    The Central Himalayan Rural Action Group, an NGO based in India, is restoring special Himalayan freshwater springs known naulas. Since 2008, the organization has been involved in the restoration of more than 6,000 springs.

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  • Massachusetts welcomed migrant families with open arms. But is the state prepared to teach their children?

    April 10, 2025 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    In dual-language instruction, classes are delivered partly in English and partly in English learners’ home language, allowing them to improve their English skills while also maintaining their mother tongue. Massachusetts added 16 new dual-language programs between 2018 and 2020, but the state is currently struggling to serve an influx of English learners, with only 4 percent of those students enrolled in dual-language programs.

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  • How an Ancient Yemeni Tradition Is Reviving Bee Populations

    April 07, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Yemen

    In Yemen, incorporating the age-old practice of seasonal beehive migration, known as Tazeeb, increased the number of hives in the country by over 100,000 between 2017 and 2020.

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  • How the Klamath Dams Came Down

    March 19, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The coordinated response involved decades of persistent advocacy, strategic coalition-building among Indigenous nations, environmentalists, and government officials, sustained direct activism, and innovative legal and corporate negotiations, ultimately leading to the historic removal of four dams along the Klamath River. This effort successfully restored salmon habitat and ecosystem health, setting a groundbreaking precedent for addressing environmental justice, tribal sovereignty, and dam removal conflicts nationwide.

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  • Yaku Raymi: The Quechua Ritual to Save a Glacier

    March 06, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Peru, Santa Fe

    In Santa Fe, Peru, an ancestral system of water storage is helping communities cope with water scarcity: qochas are artificial lagoons built to store rainwater during the wet season, which is later used during droughts. The use of qochas has allowed Santa Fe to have 41 reservoirs that store 2.9 million cubic meters (102.4 million cubic feet) of water, three times more than before.

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  • “Close the Gap” or Political Band-Aid? South Africa's HIV/AIDS Response

    March 02, 2025 |

    Modern Diplomacy |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    South Africa’s “Close the Gap” campaign aims to bridge disparities in HIV/AIDS treatment. To make the initiative more effective, some African countries are incorporating traditional health practitioners into the healthcare framework to provide more holistic care that bridges the gap between Indigenous cultural knowledge and modern medical practices.

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  • Building Food Sovereignty in San Francisco and Detroit

    February 01, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Black Community Food Sovereignty Network and the Native Foodways Program strengthen community connections to food, not only enhancing access, but also restoring culturally significant relationships with the Earth, supporting local economies, and healing historical traumas.

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