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  • Silent voices, loud Impact: EQUIP initiative connects deaf youth with soft skills and confidence

    Yahuza Bawage

    February 12, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    The Equip the Deaf Initiative helps people with hearing impairments learn skills that help them pursue further education and excel in their careers. Through collaborations with local schools and foundations, the Initiative has benefited 55 people with hearing impairments by teaching effective communication, leadership and problem–solving skills.

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  • This unexpected material might be in your next sweater

    Nicolás Rivero

    February 12, 2024 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Amsterdam

    The Amsterdam-based startup Human Material Loop, collects human hair from salons and spins it into yarn to make clothing and furniture. It aims to keep hair out of landfills and incinerators while reducing the demand for synthetic fibers and wool, all of which produce greenhouse gases.

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  • Rewilding in Argentina helps giant anteaters return to south Brazil

    Sarah Brown

    February 12, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    A rewilding project at Iberá National Park in Argentina is reintroducing giant anteaters where they were previously considered extinct by bringing orphaned pups onto wild, protected land and allowing them to roam freely.

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  • Can Baby Bonds Deliver on Promise to Close Rhode Island's Wealth Gap?

    Nancy Lavin

    February 10, 2024 |

    Rhode Island Current |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    Connecticut and several other East Coast states are implementing baby bond programs to help children in low-income families generate wealth. The programs create trust funds for babies born into families on public health insurance that are managed by the state until they turn 18.

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  • Free tuition at Peralta Colleges sees students returning to school in big numbers

    Ashley McBride

    February 09, 2024 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    After leveraging COVID-19 relief funding to make tuition free, campuses in the Peralta Community College District saw enrollment rebound nearly to pre-pandemic levels and the share of students of color and older students enrolled increase.

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  • Reclaiming Our Homes

    Julia Rocha

    February 09, 2024 |

    Latino USA |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Moms for Housing reclaim vacant homes owned by investors to provide a place for single mothers to live. Advocating for housing as a human right, 13 organizers are currently living in these unoccupied houses and through civil disobedience, managed to negotiate temporary housing as they continue fighting for permanent solutions to the area’s housing crisis.

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  • Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

    Keith Anthony S. Fabro

    February 09, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Siquijor

    A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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  • The Over-50s Turning to Teaching

    MaryLou Costa

    February 09, 2024 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Now Teach helps retrain older professionals for second careers in teaching, tapping candidates who might otherwise retire early to help fill staffing shortages in the education sector. The program has helped roughly 850 people earn a postgraduate certificate in education, and its trainees are more ethnically diverse than the national pool of teachers overall.

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  • 'A solution that nobody even imagined': The Village as a model for housing and mental health and addictions support

    Shalu Mehta

    February 09, 2024 |

    The Discourse |

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    Response Location: Canada, Duncan, British Columbia

    A site full of tiny homes called The Village provides stable, transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness in Duncan, British Columbia. The organizations that run the site provide residents with addiction recovery support and necessities like food while creating a welcoming, culturally safe community.

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  • Michigan program recycles pacemakers to save lives overseas

    Alan Fisk

    February 08, 2024 |

    New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Project My Heart Your Heart recycles pacemakers from deceased cardiovascular patients to give them to people overseas living in poor countries where pacemakers are historically hard to access and afford. The My Heart Your Heart lab has received around 50,000 pacemakers and has reconditioned and implanted about 500 in heart patients in several countries.

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