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  • The App and the Cut: Strategic Technological Development against FGM

    June 21, 2018 |

    KTN News Kenya |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya, Kisumu, Kisumu County

    FGM, or Female Genital Mutilation, is still being conducted in Kenya albeit now in secrecy. A group of high school girls in Kisumu, Kenya developed an app that is part of the effort to end the practice. The app includes educational resources as well as connections to local police stations and offers ways of tracking local advocates' outreach. While the app has garnered a lot of international attention as well as some support from those who work on the ground in the issue, it still faces many challenges before it can become truly effective.

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  • The transformative power of giving young women cash

    June 21, 2018 |

    Quartz |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    Research, and the evidence from global development campaigns in multiple countries, shows that cash transfers to women can help women to gain more freedom in choosing sexual partners, decrease HIV transmission, and decrease domestic violence. However, the short term cash transfers show proof of short term impact -- for longer term success, greater amounts that allow for greater investment might be necessary.

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  • Broadcasts in a Native Language, Speaking to Every Corner of Peru

    June 21, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Peru, Cusco

    Luis Soto, is the first indigenous Peruvian to voiceover a soccer game in his native language, Quechua, since 1982. In Peru, indigenous people “make up about a fifth of the nation’s population” and continue to grapple with racism and classism in Peru. Something, Soto believes he is counteracting. “ I do it so people can feel represented.”

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  • Sonic youth: the UK school turning teenagers' lives around

    June 21, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: England, Swanley

    SupaJam, a music school in England, targets kids aged 16-18 who are not in school or employed for a range of reasons. By the time students graduate, 97 percent leave with a nationally recognized business diploma. “These kids are too young to abandon," one of the cofounders says. “This is our society and we have to fight for them."

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  • Backpack-Sized Archiving Kit Empowers Community Historians to Record Local Narratives

    June 21, 2018 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

    The Archivist In a Backpack kit developed by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill contains the essential elements for oral history collection including recorders, notepads, and thank you cards. The university is partnering with other organizations to distribute these kits and foster oral history gathering activities.

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  • Reviving the City: How an Asphalt Plant Turned Into a Public Park

    June 21, 2018 |

    Urbanet |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    By participating in the decision-making process, Mexico City residents successfully convinced the government to build a public park instead of an office development. The Parque Imán is 2.4 hectares, includes 163 trees, and the green space can potentially benefit up to 200,000 residents of some city boroughs. While there are some concerns about the soil quality in the park due to the adjacent asphalt plant, the park shows how participation from residents and transparency from the government allowed the public space to be built.

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  • Basic income could work—if you do it Canada-style

    June 20, 2018 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Lindsay, Ontario

    In Lindsay, Ontario, the provincial government is funding a pilot for a universal basic income that provides monthly stipends to those who are facing poverty to help boost them to at least 75 percent of the poverty line. Although the longterm benefits and costs are yet to be seen, so far participants have reported that it has acted as "a social equalizer, a recognition that people who make little or no money are often doing things that are socially valuable."

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  • These college students moonlight as ‘grandkids' for hire. Seniors love it.

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Papa is a new business that started in Miami, Florida to connect senior citizens with college-students who are willing to provide companionship, combat loneliness, and help with services. The service helps seniors, but it also helps to take pressure off of caregivers.

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  • Opportunity for Refugees, Nourishment for New Yorkers

    June 20, 2018 |

    WNYC |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In New York, non-profits like Eat Offbeat, Emma's Torch, United Tastes of America, and more are working to connect American-born citizens with refugees from other countries, using food as a way to spark conversation while also providing employment and job training opportunities. So far, these organizations have helped welcome refugees while also creating cultural awareness.

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  • What happens when ordinary people learn economics?

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Manchester

    A free economics course is empowering everyday citizens to learn more about economics from an academic perspective, then helping them apply the concepts to their understanding of their own financial situations. In five classes over a two month period, people who might be traditionally left out of the system get a chance to learn alongside others. The result is an enthusiastic group who wants to do more to help society better understand finances, too.

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