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  • Lust auf neues Leder: Häute aus Apfel, Biobüffel und Kaktee

    October 14, 2021 |

    ZDF |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany

    Leder ist nicht tierfreundlich, Kunstleder aber oft nicht nachhaltig. Verschiedene Unternehmen arbeiten deshalb an weiteren Alternativen, etwa aus Resten der Apfelsaft-Produktion, Kaffee oder Kakteen.

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  • Building Alliances: How rural St. Landry Parish gave its Covid vaccination effort a boost

    October 14, 2021 |

    The Current (Louisiana) |

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    Response Location: United States, Saint Landry Parish, Louisiana

    A pre-existing resource directory formed by a consortium of local groups addressing community health allowed St. Landry Parish to react quickly to the COVID-19 pandemic and deploy resources more effectively. The network was quickly mobilized and representatives from government agencies, the police, hospitals, and business owners met daily to coordinate care, answer questions and dispel misinformation, and eventually, ensure access to vaccines.

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  • Relief For Older Citizens In Enugu As Mobile Clinic Delivers Free Healthcare Service

    October 12, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    A mobile health clinic is bringing checkups to senior citizens living in remote parts of Nigeria. The free initiative provides doctors, physical therapy, nurses, a laboratory, and a pharmacy as well. Following medical treatment, each patient’s file is sent to a regional healthcare center so they can continue to receive care.

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  • By boat, by motorbike, by foot

    October 12, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Colombia, La Giajira

    IPSI Palaima is working to vaccinate Indigenous families who live in hard-to-reach areas of La Guajira, where there are no paved roads, electricity, or running water and staff must use cars, boats, and motorbikes to reach them. A team of nursing assistants and a doctor spend 15 days at a time at a local outpost and travel by motorbike to surrounding communities, carrying vaccines in cooler bags. The organization was founded by an Indigenous woman who grew up in the area. Many of the staff members speak the local language, which can ease the communities’ vaccine hesitation and mistrust of authorities.

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  • COVID-19: Nigerian youth initiative leverages technology to provide low-income children access to education 

    October 12, 2021 |

    Social Voices |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Digilearns is a learning intervention platform created to deliver learning materials to students across the country through the use of mobile phones and doesn’t require an internet connection, making education more accessible and affordable to students, particularly those from low-income families. Since launching in 2020, Digilearns has provided access to educational materials to more than 1,000 secondary school children.

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  • In the San Luis Valley, a small town is using civic engagement to improve lives

    October 12, 2021 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Saguache, Colorado

    The Family Leadership Training Institute of Colorado is a community-driven collaborative aimed at increasing civic participation and collaboration between diverse stakeholders. The 20-week program focuses on cultivating leadership skills and teaching participants how to use their voice to advocate in their community's interests. Participants are able to develop a plan for civic engagement and receive help instituting it, including connections among government agencies. Program graduates have designed programming to strengthen their communities and started businesses with social goals.

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  • Beating HIV through family, mentorship

    October 12, 2021 |

    Nation Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Homa Bay

    Pama Care is an initiative that coordinates HIV care within a family to address barriers to adherence to achieve viral suppression in children and adults. All HIV positive family members are put on the same medication schedule, which improves adherence, and given clinic appointments on the same day, which provides a better picture of family barriers and improves guidance and counseling. The government, backed financially by private companies, also pays a monthly stipend to patients who reach out to those having a hard time accepting their HIV status. This model has been successful across the country.

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  • He befriended his brother's murderer. In each other, they found healing

    October 11, 2021 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Since the 1990s, California prisons' victim-aid office has arranged for crime victims to meet with the incarcerated people who harmed them or their family members. These victim-offender dialogues, a restorative-justice method offering alternative forms of accountability, have helped survivors heal by providing information they could not glean from the traditional justice process. Some have also experienced reconciliation and forgiveness. Only victims can initiate the process, and most incarcerated people are deemed ineligible after screening and preparation for the face-to-face dialogues.

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  • Prison reform curbs some solitary confinement, but how much?

    October 10, 2021 |

    The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Washington state prison officials say they have tried for years to reduce their use of solitary confinement. They made some progress toward that goal until the pandemic. Despite that complication, hundreds still live for months or even years in near-total isolation, which critics liken to torture and blame for psychological damage to incarcerated people. Advocates for strict limits or abolishing the practice say the state has maintained the use of solitary under a variety of euphemisms. Pending legislation would impose stricter limits, which prison officials oppose on safety grounds.

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  • When Abusers Keep Their Guns

    October 09, 2021 |

    Reveal |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Starting in 1968, Congress has passed a series of laws, as have some states, stripping gun possession rights from people convicted of felonies or of domestic violence, or who are the subjects of restraining orders. But neither federal nor most state authorities do much to enforce the laws, relying instead on an honor system that often fails. Some places, like Washington's King County (Seattle), have done more to track who has guns they are barred from having. Thorough follow-up enables them to confiscate such guns in a process that can be less potentially violent than assumed.

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