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  • Half a billion people need reading glasses. Why can't they get them?

    October 09, 2025 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, Zacatecas

    RestoringVision addresses the global shortage of reading glasses by tackling supply and demand challenges. On the demand side, they partner with local NGOs and governments to provide vision screenings and free initial glasses, particularly for those in regions who either don’t know reading glasses are an option or don’t realize they’re losing their vision. On the supply side, they work to build retail networks and educate employers about productivity benefits, as workers receiving glasses show productivity increases up to 32%.

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  • The News Show Made by and for People With Learning Disabilities

    May 15, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Norway, Bergen

    TV Bra is a Norwegian news station where all reporters are autistic or have learning disabilities that produces a weekly one-hour news cast tailored to its audience. TV Bra helps ensure news is accessible to everyone, helping people who are historically excluded from journalism stay up-to-date, and has significant viewership, with upwards of 5,000 people tuning in each week.

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  • Jobs for Life

    May 07, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    Floare de Cires addresses the employment barriers people with disabilities face by training them in culinary and hospitality skills that help them integrate into the workforce and build a sense of independence.

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  • SoCal officials unleash sterile mosquitoes in bid to curb disease — with promising results

    May 06, 2025 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Local agencies tasked with controlling disease-spreading organisms are releasing sterile male mosquitoes to help reduce the pest’s population and prevent the spread of dengue. This strategy has decreased the mosquito population by about 82% in parts of Southern California, marking the first time in eight years that the population has declined instead of increased.

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  • How this Limpopo NGO prepared itself for Trump funding cuts

    April 29, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Africa, Limpopo

    After sudden U.S. government funding cuts jeopardized South Africa's HIV programs, Limpopo's Hlokomela Clinic quickly reorganized around existing resources, training community health workers to identify and encourage farm workers to visit still-operational clinic sites for HIV testing. By leveraging volunteers, they partially offset the impact of losing their dedicated HIV testing outreach team and program funding.

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  • DOGE abruptly cut a program for teens with disabilities. This student is 'devastated'

    April 14, 2025 |

    KPBS Public Media |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Newton, Massachusetts

    Before DOGE cut the program’s funding, Charting My Path for Future Success was helping students with disabilities learn ways to successfully transition from high school to college or the working world with greater self-sufficiency. Before it was canceled, 1,600 high school juniors enrolled in the program, learning how to set goals, take care of themselves and build their confidence and self-determination skills.

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  • Two Men's Mission to Restoring Eye Sights amid Searing Temperatures in Kwara State

    April 07, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    Working closely with Opeyemi Mega Eye Clinic, two local men created a grassroots outreach program to provide free and discounted cataract and glaucoma surgeries, and have successfully restored vision for hundreds of residents between 2021 and 2024.

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  • LALIF Sparking a New Dawn of Hope For Neglected Deaf Blind

    March 18, 2025 |

    BONews |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Lionheart Ability Leaders International Foundation (LALIF) uses a comprehensive training program to empower parents, teachers and those living with vision and hearing impairment. Their programming teaches educators how to understand tactile sign language, and also empowers parents on how best to support their children living with disabilities.

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  • How Nigeria's Biggest Party Made HIV Testing Cool

    March 17, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    The Wise Up Campaign works to increase HIV testing rates and reduce transmission of the disease through educational efforts and connecting with young people, a particularly high-risk group, to spread awareness and connect them with necessary resources. Since forming, the campaign has reached over 500,000 young people with HIV counseling and testing, as well as condom distribution, and has even trained several young volunteers to continue spreading the message to their peers.

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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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    1500-3000 Words

    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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