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  • Strawberry Week addresses period poverty, battles inflation

    Rae Daniel

    January 24, 2023 |

    KSHB-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    The nonprofit Strawberry Week Society is tackling period poverty in Kansas City, Missouri, by providing free menstrual products to organizations that help those in need.

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  • Efforts to Expand Ballot Access in Washington State Jails Face Local Pushback

    Khawla Nakua

    January 23, 2023 |

    Bolts |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Washington lawmakers allocated $2.5 million in grant funding to help jails improve voting access for people incarcerated there, which resulted in a big spike in ballots cast in one facility that participated. But only five counties applied for the grant program, and jail officials interested in participating have faced opposition from political representatives in some areas.

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  • Rehabilitating River Thange in Makueni (to protect it from drying again due to misuse)

    Phillip Ngumo

    January 23, 2023 |

    90.3 County FM |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Vikundi mbalimbali vya wakazi wa kaunti ya Makueni vinatumiwa sana kutunza mazingira.Wanakijiji hushika doria ili watu wasikate miti kwa ajili ya kutengeneza makaa. Hivyo basi kutengeneza mazingira bora ya maji kurudi.Hadi kufikia sasa eneo hilo limeshuhudia ongezeko la miti takriban 4,000.

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  • A California town's wastewater is helping it battle drought

    Naoki Nitta

    January 23, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Healdsburg, California

    To comply with federal environmental wastewater discharge regulations, Healdsburg, California, upgraded its wastewater-reclamation facility to purify water enough for reuse. In order to reduce the amount of water discharged into the local river, the city made the purified water free to use for pastures, agriculture, residential use, and non-dairy livestock.

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  • Costa Rican trail opens a path to cash for nature and people

    Tim Gaynor

    January 23, 2023 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    The Mar a Mar association is slowly improving the 174-mile hiking trail, Camino de Costa Rica, with new infrastructure to attract more tourists. The path was built to bring tourism profits inland to the local communities that need it. The association is also helping members of those communities develop small businesses around the trail.

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  • Seeds of change: Nepal's local crops raise hopes for food security

    Mukesh Pokhrel

    January 22, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    In an effort to protect and promote Nepal’s local, or traditional, crops, the Raithane Koseli Ghar initiative gathers and sells the hard-to-find seeds. The initiative also provides support and education to farmers looking to grow them.

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  • Volunteers plant mini-forests in Paris to slow climate change, tackle heatwaves

    Charlotte Wilkins

    January 22, 2023 |

    France 24 |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Volunteers of a nonprofit tree-planting initiative in Paris are planting pocket forests, based on Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki’s method, to increase biodiversity and combat extreme heat. These mini-forests are made of native species planted close together at random to mimic a natural forest.

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  • Pediatricians are giving out free gun locks to approach the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis

    Emma Tucker

    January 22, 2023 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Louis, Missouri

    In an effort to encourage gun owners to safely store their firearms and keep them away from children, free gun locks are available with no questions asked at the St. Louis Children’s Hospital in Missouri. The pediatricians are trained to have non-judgemental conversations about safe storage education during a child’s appointment.

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  • How to build a better bike-share program

    Gabriela Aoun Angueira

    January 20, 2023 |

    Grist |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    A community-led nonprofit restarted New Orleans’ bike-sharing program Blue Bikes with a focus on affordability and equity after a for-profit company ended it during the pandemic. The founders used the bike stands and tools left behind from the original program, the city provided spaces for the bike racks, and the funders provided money for a fleet of bicycles.

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  • The Georgia House: A place for recovery through love

    Danita Harris

    January 20, 2023 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Avon, Ohio

    The Georgia House provides women in Avon, Ohio, a free place to live and recover from alcohol and drug addictions. Women in the house participate in a daily structure that includes time at treatment centers and group devotionals.

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