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  • This Community-Controlled Real Estate Co-Op Is Proving Its Value

    December 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    California’s East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative is run by residents of local historically redlined communities and supported by investors who receive moderate returns to keep rent prices affordable. The cooperative was formed to give those involved a say in decisions they were typically left out of and allows them to serve existing residents and businesses instead of trying to attract new ones.

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  • A Small Mexican Town Becomes a Vital Way Station for Asylum Seekers

    December 20, 2022 |

    The Border Chronicle |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Sonoyta, Sonora

    Shelters for Hope converted an abandoned motel into a migrant resource center called the Centro de Esperanza and provides meals, legal assistance, clothing, and shoes to families seeking asylum in the United States. Shelters for Hope sees between 150 to 200 people a day and can currently house about 30 people.

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  • Abandoned homes: how village in Sumy region helps IDPs find new housing

    December 20, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kapustyntsi

    The village of Kapustyntsi, Ukraine, welcomed people displaced by the war into abandoned houses through Facebook posts. The community worked to clean up the houses, contact owners and heirs for permission to use them, or take legal action to claim them when necessary.

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  • Telehealth offers boost to children with developmental needs

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Anchorage, Alaska

    The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium provides telehealth services to more than 100,000 Alaska Natives, primarily in small communities with limited access to travel. The organization, along with others like the Indian Health Service, also provide remote care to families with children with developmental needs, like those with autism.

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  • How One Chicago Organization Is Helping Migrants Being Bussed In From the Border

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Erie Neighborhood House welcomes migrants being bussed from Texas to Chicago with resources like food and clothing, medical care, legal support, and case management. The organization has helped more than 3,000 migrants since August 2022.

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  • A solution to the housing shortage?

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Home builders in the United States are producing homes up to 50% quicker with modular housing. This process involves manufacturing different parts of the home in a factory and assembling all of those parts on-site.

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  • The vegan leather made from India's waste flowers

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: India, Kanpur

    Phool, a startup in India, makes a plant-based leather alternative using flower petals discarded from Hindu temples after rituals to feed microbes that grow the material. The product, named Fleather, keeps flower waste from contaminating rivers and is a sustainable, biodegradable alternative to animal leather.

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  • In North Carolina, more people are training to support patients through an abortion

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Abortion doulas are like traditional birth doulas and provide advice and emotional support to people navigating an abortion. Every three months the Carolina Abortion Fund offers free online classes for aspiring abortion doulas. These sessions used to have 20 signups at most, but now — following the overturn of Roe v. Wade — have 40.

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  • Libros y raíces: LibroMobile fills a literary need as Santa Ana's only bookstore

    December 19, 2022 |

    el Don |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    Libro Mobile works to increase accessibility to free books and reading spaces amidst widespread gentrification while simultaneously uplifting local authors and artists of color in its open, free-to-access space.

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  • Flooding in Nigeria: victims help other victims survive difficult times

    December 19, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Omoku, River State

    The Crowd Funders initiative gathered funding to help feed and shelter families affected by flooding in Nigeria.

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