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

    June 21, 2018 |

    KTN News Kenya |

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    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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  • 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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    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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  • The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Myanmar

    A doctor faced with a public health crisis in his remote Myanmar village called on an UK organization to help him enact a solution. Rather than trying to treat hundreds of patients a day, the doctor started a local branch of Health and Hope to train a man and a women from each small village in his region. Now, residents of these villages don't have to die from treatable diseases because a local health expert is nearby.

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  • Nebraska prisons playing major role in mental health care

    June 20, 2018 |

    Lincoln Journal Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Nebraska

    Nebraska prisons house many of the state's mentally ill, and they are working on comprehensive care for them. Prisons work to improve outcomes and reduce recidivism through mentorship programs. The Mental Health Association runs programs in Nebraska prisons and trains peer supporters on the inside.

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  • Dementia program in Peel 'should spread like wildfire'

    June 20, 2018 |

    Toronto Star |

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    Response Location: Canada, Peel, Ontario

    Dementia units and long-term care homes for the elderly are often desolate and lonely places, with harried workers attempting to meet the needs of their patients while also meeting government-set metrics of success. For families and individuals, it can be difficult to imagine a better way. However, a pilot program in Canada called the Butterfly room is showing that dedicated efforts to making long-term care homes a vibrant and loving place for someone's last days has positive impacts for everyone - and is worth a government investment do right across the country.

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  • What happens when ordinary people learn economics?

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    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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  • Fresh pickings: prescribing produce, not pills

    June 20, 2018 |

    Positive.News |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Fresh Prescription is a Detroit-based program that creates a mechanism for doctors to prescribe healthy food and fresh produce instead of medications to low-income patients, pregnant women, and people with young children. The program provides patients with a card where they can spend money on fresh fruits and vegetables from local food vendors, bridging the gap between good nutrition and good health.

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  • Landing On Your Feet

    June 20, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    PAR-Recycle Works has a twofold mission: reduce recidivism and help the planet. By teaching employees to break down electronics, the program has a sustainable source of funding through the sale of scrap metal. So far, the program has employed 33 formerly incarcerated individuals, and it is successfully helping them reintegrate into society.

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  • Ending the infection that scrapes eyes blind

    June 20, 2018 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Yendi

    Trachoma is a debilitating disease in which the eyelids turn inwards, causing a person's eyelashes to repeatedly scrape and eventually scar their eyes causing excruciating pain and blindness. The World Health Organization has come up with a four step solution to the problem; surgery, antibiotics, facial cleanliness, and environmental improvement.

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