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  • Displaced Sri Lankans defy military to reclaim homeland

    May 18, 2018 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Iranaitheevu

    26 years after being displaced from their land, hundreds of Tamil civilians orchestrated a plan that defied the Sri Lankan navy to return to their homeland. “Over 100 community members are now living on the island. Other plans to arrive in the coming months.”

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  • How to build a bike-share system for people of all abilities

    May 18, 2018 |

    FastCompany |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    MoGo, a bike-sharing program in Detroit, listened to user feedback and launched an adaptive bicycle pilot program. Though only 13 bikes are part of the program, they will make urban biking accessible to people with limited mobility. If the pilot is deemed a success, Detroit will be a leader in the inclusive bike space in Michigan.

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  • 'Care BnB'- the town where mentally ill people lodge with locals

    May 18, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Belgium, Geel

    Residents of a small town in Belgium take in "boarders", people who have disabilities that render them unable to live alone. Many of these boarders stay with their host families for several decades, and they all participate in household duties so that both family and boarder benefits. This solution allows people who might otherwise have to live in a facility to integrate into society and live as normally as possible.

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  • Saving Africa's wildlife

    May 18, 2018 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Malawi

    Africa's wildlife have made headlines time and time again, as species find their way closer to extinction. There are some pockets of the continent, however that have provide refuge for species and allowed them to not just populate, but thrive. Recognizing this, a group known as African Parks found a way to use these growing populations to repopulate other areas of the continent by transporting animals to newly protected areas.

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  • Australia confiscated 650,000 guns. Murders and suicides plummeted.

    May 18, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Australia

    After passing the National Firearms Agreement in 1996, Australia saw a striking decline in suicide and homicide raters. The agreement – a result of a mass shooting – included a ban on certain kinds of guns, a mandatory buyback on those guns that had been deemed illegal, as well as amnesty for those who illegally possessed firearms to turn them in. In the years leading up to the agreement, the country witnessed 13 mass shootings; since then, Australia has seen only one.

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  • A phoenix rising from the asbestos

    May 17, 2018 |

    The Western News |

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    Response Location: United States, Libby, Montana

    A town once plagued by a reputation of being an asbestos Superfund site as well as having been hit by the timber wars, Libby, Montana is back on the map. Lincoln County commissioner, Mark Peck of Libby, the county seat, decided to make it a priority to fix the negative connotation surrounding the town and partnered with a public relations firm to rebrand the city through the use of the community's unique story of rising from asbestos.

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  • The All-Woman Team Building and Selling Toilets in Cambodia

    May 17, 2018 |

    News Deeply |

    Multi-Media |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: Cambodia, Pursat

    To combat potentially fatal hygiene practices, women in Cambodia have learned how to build and sell toilets, breaking into a historically male-dominated field. The small businesses have resulted in hundreds of sales with improves the livelihoods for both the buyer and seller.

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  • Salvar al Riachuelo: las lecciones que dejó el saneamiento del Rin y de otros ríos contaminados

    May 17, 2018 |

    La Nación (Argentina) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Argentina, Buenos Aires

    El río Matanza-Riachuelo, en la provincia argentina de Buenos Aires, es de los más contaminados del país. A pesar de un plan aprobado en 2008 para sanearlo, la cuenca se ve contaminada indiscriminadamente por basura, aguas sucias domiciliares y desechos industriales. Este reportaje se asoma a cómo España limpió el río de Bilbao y cómo seis países de Europa limpiaron el río Rin, para quitarle las excusas a una suerte de negligencia y división política que ha impedido que el río argentino esté limpio.

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  • Why Is It So Hard to Figure Out When the Bus Is Coming?

    May 17, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, College Park, Maryland

    In order for alternatives to driving to be widely adopted, accurate information about service and arrival times needs to be accesible. To fill this need, applications providing bus routes and arrival times are being developed, in some cases aided by crowdsourced information.

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  • 100 million Americans have chronic pain. Very few use one of the best tools to treat it.

    May 17, 2018 |

    Vox |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Physical methods like surgery and painkillers don’t always work to control pain. In some cases, cognitive behavioral therapy has been shown to help where traditional methods fall short. Pilot initiatives at different university hospitals around the world are challenging the idea that real pain must be physical.

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