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  • Papua New Guinea's Meri Seif Bus Program Provides Safe Transport to Women and Girls

    January 01, 2020 |

    Stanford Social Innovation Review |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby

    A public transportation system just for women has been developed in New Guinea in response to the extreme harassment that women face. Launched in 2014, the program called "Meri Seif (“Woman Safe”) now serves 170,000 female riders annually and has more than 10 buses. The program is still growing, as more buses get donated, but women already praise the program for increasing their sense of safety.

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  • Breaking the cycle: Fulton's first all-female program works to address recidivism

    November 19, 2019 |

    Columbia Missourian |

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    Response Location: United States, Fulton, Missouri

    The Fulton Community Supervision Center in Missouri provides trauma-informed, gender-specific care and services to women who face the risk of recidivism. Participants live at the center, where they receive services like cognitive behavioral therapy and classes that teach coping mechanisms and personal and professional development. Core to much of the programming is helping women find their self worth.

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  • Tackling Menstruation Stigma Through Education

    October 17, 2019 |

    The Daily Vox |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    Qrate provides menstruation workshops at schools to teach young people about their bodies, good menstruation hygiene, and - importantly - to decrease the stigma, shame, and embarrassment associated with periods. The group presents to both girls and boys in order to address the health of non-binary, transgender, and intersex people who may menstruate, and to engage boys in fighting the stigma. In addition to providing the necessary products, the workshops use fun, child-friendly, lessons. The interactive activities and exercises have been more impactful than simply having someone lecture to students.

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  • Cleveland Rape Crisis Center responds to need with new office in Shaker Square

    October 10, 2019 |

    FreshWater Cleveland |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    The Cleveland Rape Crisis Center spent months deeply listening to their community before opening a new location in Shaker Square. The new location was decided upon as a direct response to the stated needs of the African-American community, who often face unique challenges in reporting and being treated for sexual assault. The center is funded by Ohio’s Victims of Crime Act program, and besides offering standard sexual assault services like counseling and case management, it also does community outreach beyond sexual violence.

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  • ‘I Am Fearless Again': New Veterans' Group Gives Women a Sense of Belonging

    October 02, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlington, Virginia

    After serving as as director of the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Tara Galovski co-founded the Women Veterans Network (WoVeN), a group that runs workshops and group counseling tailored for women veterans. The group is especially helpful for veterans looking for people with a similar experience and background upon reentry into civilian life.

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  • Handmade in Brazil: Rede Asta's transformation of artisans into entrepreneurs

    September 26, 2019 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    A collective for Brazilian women artisans named Rede Asta provides training, production networks, links to consumers, and an online market to empower them to make a livable income. The group is also environmentally-conscious, focusing on creative waste reuse solutions that result in upcycled products. There are challenges as the collective grows, but they have supported more than 1,500 artisan women since opening.

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  • Beautiful bullets: Addis jewellery workshop gives women a second chance

    September 19, 2019 |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Addis Ababa

    In Ethiopia, Ellita Products and its sister organization Ellita Women at Risk (EWAR), are working to end generational poverty and prostitution through comprehensive rehabilitation programs and skills training. To reduce reliance on donations, Ellita Products employs many who have been through EWAR's programming to produce clothing, jewelry, and more for wholesale retail. So far, EWAR has reached about 1,000 and 90% of those have not returned to prostitution to make ends meet.

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  • How Women Are Faring in the World's Largest Refugee Camp

    September 17, 2019 |

    Zora |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Ukhia, Cox's Bazar

    In the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, Rohingya women are overcoming the societal restraints that bound them at home in Myanmar and becoming leaders and change-makers in their community. Despite resistance from the men, hundreds of women in the camp banded together to form a group called Shanti Mohila. This allowed them to push for more peace and justice and issues like domestic violence, and they even received support from Legal Action Worldwide to prosecute crimes against the Rohingya people.

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  • This East Tenn. Program Aims to Stop NAS by Reaching Women Behind Bars

    September 17, 2019 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Tennessee

    In Tennessee, health officials are fighting against the the opioid epidemic by educating opioid-affected pregnant women about neonatal abstinence syndrome. Although several approaches have been implemented, the Voluntary Reversible Long Acting Contraceptive Jail Initiative specifically provides resources to incarcerated women since studies show "women serving time in jails face a high risk of giving birth to a baby with NAS."

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  • A new initiative is trying to make searching for tampons easier for Highland Park women. It's part of a national movement.

    September 12, 2019 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    In 2013, the United Nations deemed access to menstrual supplies a human right. Since then, Illinois has taken a number of steps to make access to these products even easier. This story includes solutions such as free dispensers in public restrooms, eliminating the "luxury" or "tampon" tax, and drives to collect pads and tampons for low-income and homeless women.

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