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  • Traditional Birth Attendants: Friend or foe?

    July 16, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Throughout rural parts of Nigeria, health care services are often out of reach, putting pregnant women at risk of undergoing an unsafe childbirth experience. Although not without limitations, training women in these areas to act as Traditional Birth Attendants helps fill a small portion of the health equity gap by offering safe-birthing education as well as medical toolkits.

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  • Somaliland Uses Phones to Help Improve Schools

    July 16, 2018 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Somaliland

    Similar to other countries in Africa, Somaliland is using technology to better education. There, an estimated 150,000 parents use a free-mobile messaging tool to communicate about school conditions with the government. The capital of Somaliland engages in “community scorecards,” a mobile survey of thousands of students and their parents regarding their schooling.

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  • Flexible work saving government millions annually, study finds

    July 16, 2018 |

    The Mandarin |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Flexibility allows employees to “work smarter and better.” The productivity payoffs of offering part-time hours and remote work outweigh the administrative costs of such policies, according to a study in Australia.

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  • How Helsinki Arrived at the Future of Urban Travel First

    July 15, 2018 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: Finland, Helsinki

    Finland is at the forefront of conceptualizing mobility as a service. In Helsinki, citizens are getting rid of their cars and using Whim instead. The app gives users unlimited access to all transport options (bus, train, bike, taxi, and car) for a single monthly subscription.

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  • Fanned with love

    July 15, 2018 |

    Philippine Daily Inquirer |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Parañaque City

    What started as a form of therapy turned into a business venture for this group of moms. The aim was to “empower mothers through art” and now they are selling their pieces for a profit.

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  • How New Orleans Is Helping Its Students Succeed

    July 15, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    Calling New Orleans' post-Katrina school reform "the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America," journalist David Leonhardt outlines what he sees as the two main pillars holding up New Orleans' success -- autonomy and accountability. Leonhardt writes, "New Orleans is a great case study partly because it avoids many of the ambiguities of other education reform efforts. The charters here educate almost all public-school students, so they can’t cherry pick." Can other districts, who aren't starting from scratch, learn from the city's remarkable progress?

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  • Neighbors on call to help care for one another

    July 14, 2018 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Mirebalais

    Although Haiti and Montana appear to be vastly different places, they have a few important things in common; they are geographically rural, they both face high rates of mental illness and a shortage of mental health care workers, and they are both combatting this problem by utilizing Community Health Workers. These workers regularly visit people who struggle with mental health issues to check up on them and ensure that they stay on track with their treatment, and provide consistent support.

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  • How San Francisco sends less trash to the landfill than any other major U.S. city

    July 14, 2018 |

    CNBC |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    San Francisco is aiming to achieve zero waste by 2020. Thanks to the implementation of public policy that made recycling and composting mandatory and a focus on city-wide awareness, however, the Californian city has already been able to divert 80 percent of its waste from landfills. It diverts more waste from landfills than any major city.

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  • Tiny Homes Are Baby Steps Toward Reversing the Housing Crisis

    July 14, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Tiny homes, proposed across the world as a solution to housing problems, come in many forms. Baltimore is trying its own model. A creative partnership under the non-profit Civic Works is connecting people who want affordable homes with youth who want to learn construction skills and get their GED. Though still in the prototype stage, this project will show the potential for collaboration between non-profit groups, developers, and the local government.

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  • Door Step School Brings Education to Out-of-School Children in India

    July 14, 2018 |

    Borgen Magazine |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    The Door Step School group is making education accessible to disadvantaged communities across India. Part of that approach included its mobile classroom, School on Wheels, where a bus with a driver, instructor, and a supervisor head out to different communities and host up to 50 pupils at a time.

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