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Tag team approach to healthcare reaches older adults in Bangladeshi community during COVID-19 pandemic

Nargis Hakim Rahman

July 14, 2021 |

Tostada Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, New York

Sakhi for South Asian Women in New York has significantly increased their outreach during the coronavirus pandemic, connecting clients to services and resources. The group conducted 1,500 wellness calls and needs assessments in local South Asian communities and increased their caseload and cash assistance to clients. The group, who publishes their content in nine languages, also helps clients who do not have documentation pay for groceries and medications through their Sakhi Solidarity Fund. For clients who need help with family law and immigration issues, Sakhi can connect them to pro bono legal partners.

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Tribes Are Leading the Way to Remove Dams and Restore Ecosystems

Lindsay VanSomeren

July 14, 2021 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Port Angeles, Washington

After decades of collaboration between the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe in Washington state, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other organizations, the Elwha River dams were taken down to restore fish populations and return the ecosystem to its natural state. Grant funding has helped tribal biologists partner with organizations and universities to implement their fish restoration plan. While the work is expected to take years and funding isn’t always guaranteed, the restoration work so far has seen native plants and fish return.

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Farm-to-table took off during the pandemic. Is it here to stay?

Stan Finger

July 14, 2021 |

The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas

As the COVID-19 pandemic hit and grocery store shelves became bare, many consumers sought to purchase meat directly from farmers. The Shop Kansas Farms group on Facebook has more than 148,000 members with about 800 producers who are selling their goods. While there needs to be more education for farmers on how to sell their livestock and for consumers on the intricacies of buying from processors, people in other states are creating their own groups to better connect consumers to vendors.

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Philly should offer rewards for shopping local like they do in Akron, Ohio

Jessica Blatt Press

July 14, 2021 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

Shoppers who are given financial incentives to spend their money on mom and pop stores are boosting local economies. The city of Akron created an app, Akronite, to incentivize local business after the fallout from Covid-19.

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Circuit's ride-share service gives West Dallas a new option for travel

Sona Chaudhary

July 14, 2021 |

Dallas Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

A free, hyperlocal, ride-sharing service is helping residents get around by connecting people to various transit options. Operating within a 3-mile radius, Circuit’s goal is a sustainable one: to reduce congestion. It’s also given residents the “transformative freedom of mobility.”

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Reimagining Public Spaces: The Share-It-Square in Portland, Oregon

Laura Puttkamer

July 13, 2021 |

Culture Days |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

The Share-It-Square is a public space intended to foster a sense of community. Neighbors started the idea as a way to get to know each other. The intersection in Portland has grown from a simple meeting place to one that now boasts a library, a playhouse, a message board and a kiosk that’s always full of tea.

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Cómo las promotoras de salud ayudan a frenar el COVID-19 en las plantas avícolas de Carolina del Norte

Victoria Bouloubasis

July 13, 2021 |

Enlace Latino NC |

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Response Location: United States, Duplin, North Carolina

Mujeres rurales han trabajado en alianza con organiciones públicas y privadas para convertirse en promotras de salud comunitaria durante la pandemia. Cuando plantas avícolas y otras industrias no presentaron ningún plan para vacunar a sus trabajadores, y barreras culturales y de idioma complicaron la vacunación de poblaciones latinas y Negras, el activismo directo de estas mujeres ha tenido un impacto positivo, y ahora las mujeres desean continuar para buscar mejoras en las condiciones laborales de los trabajadores en general.

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Hey Siri, Learn to Speak Kinyarwanda

Tolu Olasoji

July 13, 2021 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Rwanda

Common Voice is an open-source initiative to capture more languages for voice-recognition software. Users “donate” their voices by recording themselves reading text out loud. They can also validate the accuracy of already donated voices. The platform has over 9,000 hours of voice data for 90 languages contributed by more than 166,000 people. The group runs creative campaigns to encourage native speakers to contribute, like “Digital Umuganda” in Rwanda, which is a play on a national holiday when people engage in community service. The campaign gathered over 1,700 hours of Kinyarwanda language from 840 people.

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As Men Lead Charge Against Period Poverty In Nigeria, More Girls Now Make Their Pads

Ifedayo Ogunyemi

July 12, 2021 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Feyisayo Sobowale Initiative (TFSI) works to address Period poverty, the lack of access to menstrual products by people who cannot afford them. In the four-hour training, TFSI distributes free sanitary products and teaches girls in schools how to make reusable pads so as to avoid the dangers of using old rags or paper. The girls receive a pattern and pamphlet with the steps to turn locally sourced cotton fabric into a sanitary pad that can be washed and reused for up to a year. The pad consists of two pieces of the cotton fabric sewn together with a pre-cut towel material inserted between them.

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Colorado screening newborn babies for spinal muscular atrophy

Jennifer Brown

July 12, 2021 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Colorado

A joint project between Wyoming and Colorado screens newborns for spinal muscular atrophy, allowing them to receive gene therapies to prevent the deadly disease’s progression. Once researchers identified a protein missing from the cells of people with the disease, they developed treatments that are most effective the earlier they are started. The tests have significantly increased the number of cases identified across the two states, all of which are sent to Children’s Hospital Colorado for immediate treatment. Most babies are diagnosed within four days of birth and can start treatment soon after that.

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