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  • The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world

    February 09, 2022 |

    Nature |

    Photojournalism |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Sweden, Gotland

    Companies and research initiatives around the world are developing and testing new toilets that can collect human urine and turn it into fertilizer. These urine diversion toilets have been implemented in places like South Africa with mixed results. However, researchers in Sweden are using portable toilets to gather the urine, dry it into fertilizer pellets that are then used to grow barley for beer. This work could show how to implement these kinds of toilets on a large scale.

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  • ResQZone

    February 08, 2022 |

    KWCM-PBS |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Marshall, Minnesota

    An e-waste recycling program in Minnesota aims to take old computers that normally end up in a landfill and give them to community members with income-based needs. Since the ResQZone initiative started as a partnership between a nonprofit and the county government, they’ve been able to get 420 computer systems back into public use. They also hire and train people with disabilities to do the refurbishing.

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  • From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

    February 07, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Sauka

    The international organization Riders for Health provided an electric generator to a community in Nigeria to power their water pump and get them access to clean drinking water.

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  • Through Crowdfunding, An Initiative Helps Communities Access Clean Water

    February 01, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Through the #BuildAWell project, the Water the Needy Foundation uses crowdfunding to build wells, boreholes, and manual hand pumps in Nigerian communities without consistent access to clean water. The organization has worked with more than 400 communities since 2017 and contracts with local workers to encourage a sense of community responsibility for the projects and ensure ongoing maintenance of the wells.

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  • Can Farmers Help Each Other Navigate Mental Health Crises?

    February 01, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wisconsin

    Programs like Farm Well Wisconsin, offer behavioral and wellness services to help farmers experiencing mental health challenges. These programs provide mental health resources as well as training to identify signs of stress and employ active listening tactics. Since 2021, Farm Well Wisconsin has trained about 150 farmers and community members in these mental health skills.

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  • To Stem Shootings, Poughkeepsie Is Bringing Therapy Directly to City Streets

    January 31, 2022 |

    The Trace |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Poughkeepsie, New York

    SNUG Street Outreach is a state-funded violence prevention program that brings mental health care out into the community to the places where people spend their time. Trained social workers go out into the street, people’s homes and local businesses where they establish relationships and slowly build up to providing counseling through more casual conversations, even over text messages. A community-based approach allows them to connect with people who are at high-risk of committing gun violence, as well as people who have been victims of gun violence themselves or in their social networks or communities.

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  • Baisse du taux de mortalité lié au paludisme en Côte d'Ivoire

    January 24, 2022 |

    Eburnie Today |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Côte d'Ivoire

    Les efforts de la Côte d’Ivoire portent leurs fruits puisque le nombre de décès dus au paludisme est passé de 3 222 en 2017 à 1 316 en 2020, soit un taux de mortalité en baisse d’environ 50%. Si la maladie est encore loin d'être éradiquée, moustiquaires gratuites, traitement préveventif pour les femmes enceintes et sensibilisation font leur effet.

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  • The ‘AI-Powered Midwife' Helping Pregnant Nigerian Women and Newborns Stay Healthy

    January 24, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    Encouraged by her own pregnancy experience, medical technology expert Abisola Oladapo worked with two of her colleagues to create Sister Agnes. It is an AI system that delivers periodic, timely information to pregnant women by calls and texts in local languages to empower them with information about their health. 79 percent of the women who used the service delivered in health centers, were four times more likely to survive the pregnancy, and the survival rate of their children was 33 percent higher than the national average.

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  • What our sewage can (and can't) tell us about the spread of Omicron

    January 17, 2022 |

    TVO Today |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Ontario

    Throughout the pandemic, testing for COVID-19 in wastewater has been used to monitor the transmission of the virus. Wastewater testing is a reliable tool that often complements clinical COVID-19 testing and can be used for the early detection of outbreaks and surges. In Ontario, each of the province’s 34 public-health units joined Ontario’s Wastewater Surveillance Initiative, allowing researchers and public-health units to work together on testing water samples.

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  • Strengthening Surveillance and Vaccine Uptake to Curb the Transmission of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus in Kano State

    January 17, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Outbreak Response teams travel from house to house in Kano, Nigeria, making sure children are vaccinated against wild poliovirus to prevent its spread.

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