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  • How YAFODA is tackling drug abuse in northern Nigeria

    June 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Youth Awareness Foundation on Drug Abuse rehabilitates and reintegrates drug abusers back into society and works to sensitize youth to the dangers of drug abuse. YAFODA’s programming has been recreated in 14 other states and has since rehabilitated thousands of individuals.

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  • With Branded Pothole Repairs, Private Companies Make Their Mark on Johannesburg's Roads

    June 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Two insurance companies, Discovery and Dialdirect, implemented a smartphone app for drivers to report potholes in their city. The companies then fill the potholes and brand them with their logos.

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  • Texas invested millions in mental health after 2018 shooting — Here's how it's working

    June 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    The state-funded Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium provides mental health care and resources to more than 300 school districts, with one goal of preventing mass shootings. Programs like in-school behavioral telehealth appointments make care more accessible to children who are identified as in-need

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  • How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor

    June 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Yurok Nation, United States, California

    At a condor facility in Redwood National Park, the Yurok Tribe is raising young California condors to be released into the wild in an effort to increase the population of the critically endangered species.

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  • À Nantes, les premiers pas d'une nouvelle insertion pour les sans-abri

    June 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: France, Nantes

    Projet unique en Europe, 5Ponts est une structure d'accueil des sans-abri et d’aide à la réinsertion à Nantes. Au cœur d'un quartier d’habitation, il vise à créer du contact avec les habitants. Mais un an après son lancement, les barrières restent nombreuses.

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  • Remembering How to Be Friends: Amid COVID Isolation, One School is Using Talking Circles to Help Kids Reconnect

    June 22, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    At one Texas high school, members of Students Organizing for Anti-Racism (SOAR) facilitate and participate in talking circles to address conflict, provide mental health support, rebuild relationships, and redevelop social skills they lost during the pandemic. The circles draw on Indigenous traditions to offer a safe, structured space for expression that focuses on addressing harm rather than administering punishment.

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  • In Nigeria's Underserved Communities, Teach For Nigeria Improves Education Quality

    June 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    In a country where less than 6% of public funding is allocated to education, under-resourced schools are able to hire quality teachers through Teach For Nigeria, a nonprofit that trains and deploys teaching fellows to communities in need. Fellows have been placed in 396 schools since 2018 and go on to complete personal projects that support the school system, such as a solar-powered computer hub developed by one alumnus.

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  • Biodiversité : Gros plan sur la Forêt des Marais de Tanoé-Ehy

    June 21, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Côte d'Ivoire

    En 2006, la Forêt des Marais Tanoé-Ehy (FMTE) a été identifiée par une équipe de chercheurs du Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire (CSRS) comme étant un site hautement prioritaire pour la conservation des primates en Afrique de l’ouest. Entre autonomisation des communautés pour la gestion des ressources naturelles et développpement d'un vivier de connaissances sur les primates et les grands mamifères locaux, pour les chercheurs, le projet est une réussite.

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  • Wrongful Convictions Lawyers Cash In by Targeting Insurers

    June 21, 2022 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Idaho Falls, Idaho

    The lawyers at Lathrop GPM created a strategy to settle civil rights claims by encouraging municipalities to use insurance money to pay settlements. The strategy helps inmates alleging bodily injury and wrongful conviction to recieve payouts and be absolved of their crimes without using taxpayer dollars.

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  • 'The future of agriculture': B.C. farmers, ranchers move to curb carbon emissions

    June 21, 2022 |

    Pique Newsmagazine |

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    Response Location: Canada, Merritt, British Columbia

    In an effort to curb carbon emissions to mitigate the disastrous effects of climate change, ranchers and farmers in British Columbia, Canada, are turning to sustainable practices like rotational grazing and planting cover crops.

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