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  • Anyone Who Needs Help Seeing Has 2 Million Pairs of Eyes Available With This App

    April 17, 2019 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: Denmark

    Using the camera of a smartphone, individuals who are blind or visually impaired can receive quick and easy help from volunteers. The Danish company, Be My Eyes uses a smartphone application to connect those who are blind or visually impaired to an international network of sighted volunteers ready to assist. The on-demand access to assistance provides visually impaired individuals with more independence in their daily lives.

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  • For Refugee Children, Reading Helps Heal Trauma

    April 17, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Zaatari, Mafraq Governorate

    We Love Reading, an organization backed by UNICEF and USAID, works with all of Jordan's Syrian refugee camps and one of Ethiopia's South Sudanese camps to use storytelling as a tool for psychological healing. It started in 2006 out of Amman, Jordan, and has since gained respect with children specialists and international aid organizations. We Love Reading works on the premise that story time boosts healthy development by giving children the courage and language to speak about what they are going through.

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  • This ‘Innovative' Housing Program Serves Just 3 Households

    April 17, 2019 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    While a partnership between the city of Denver and surrounding businesses sparked an affordable housing program, the city still wants to push the program to a much larger scale. The program rent-controls specific apartments for folks spending more than 30% of their income on rent, though only a small number of individuals have been served thus far.

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  • Medical Supply Drones in Rwanda

    April 17, 2019 |

    Under-Told Stories Project |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    The first of it's kind, a medical drone base has opened in Rwanda that aims to cut down the time it takes to deliver blood from blood banks to hospitals. Serving 21 rural health facilities throughout the region, the approach is also helping put Rwanda on the map as a technology hub.

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  • Tech for Turnout

    April 17, 2019 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    High tech tools offer low cost ways to reach many voters and mobilize turnout, especially in mid term elections. From applications that allow campaigns to deliver personal text messages to hundreds of people at once, to new digital platforms for online polling and campaign management, many of the successful campaigns launched across the country during and after 2016 have leveraged these tech innovations to engage with voters.

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  • "Memory Cafes" offer support for people with memory loss and their caregivers

    April 17, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ypsilanti, Michigan

    Living with dementia can often lead to loneliness for not just those inflicted, but also the caregivers involved. To help create a community around this, the Ypsilanti Senior Center has started a monthly Memory Cafe that serves as a place for others in these situations to converse and connect.

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  • How Lakota Horse Culture Is Helping Treat Child Trauma in South Dakota

    April 17, 2019 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    Using animals as a form of therapy is not a new concept, but combining this practice with traditional Lakota horse rituals has proven to be a powerful anecdote for treating youth mental trauma in these communities. Treating the donated horses as companions, the youth learn how to care and train the equines all from the mindset of how these animals have played a role in Native American culture and history.

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  • Independence police finding new ways to tackle homelessness

    April 16, 2019 |

    KSHB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Independence, Missouri

    The Independence, Missouri police department is taking an empathy-first approach to homelessness in the city. Instead of making arrests for trespassing or other crimes associated with homelessness, police officers work with the individuals to provide them with the resources they need to get back on their feet.

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  • A tale of two cities: What Baltimore can teach Arizona about fighting fentanyl overdoses

    April 16, 2019 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    In 2018, Baltimore passed a harm-reduction bill that allowed the distribution of fentanyl testing strips to assess if fentanyl has been laced into drugs. The decriminalization of these follow similar harm reduction trends that allow for the distribution of safe syringes and naloxone. While proving effective in reducing drug overdoses, because such stigma is attached to addiction, states like Arizona are hesitant to implement such measures, even as advocates and experts call for it.

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  • Thomas, WV: The Town the Arts (Re) Built

    April 16, 2019 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Thomas, West Virginia

    Renewing distressed economies can be done through reinvesting in arts and culture. By building successful partnerships with rural Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) like the Woodlands Community Lenders (WCL), the town of Thomas, West Virginia, has found a new identity as a hub of arts and culture after the collapse of its coal-based economy.

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