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  • How a women and immigrant-led marketplace is surviving Covid

    February 07, 2023 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The La Cocina Municipal Marketplace supports immigrant women entrepreneurs who graduated from the La Cocina Business Incubator by providing them with a space to sell their goods and services. Since forming in 2005, the business incubator has helped 140 entrepreneurs open for business. And the Marketplace — which opened in 2021 — allowed these business owners to continue to make profits by selling takeout-only food amid gathering restrictions caused by the pandemic.

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  • How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women

    February 03, 2023 |

    MIT Technology Review |

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    Response Location: India, Ganeshwadi Village, Maharashtra

    Accredited social health activists (ASHA) travel throughout Indian villages to combat medical misinformation — specifically among pregnant people — and make public healthcare more accessible. ASHAs connects with over 60% of the women in the villages she serves via WhatsApp, sharing educational videos to avoid the harmful effects of misinformation. As a result, ASHAs have had a massive impact on maternal mortality rates. In 2006, the maternal mortality rate was 254 deaths per 100,000 live births, but in 2020 it dropped to 96 per 100,000 births.

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  • The Georgia House: A place for recovery through love

    January 20, 2023 |

    WEWS-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Avon, Ohio

    The Georgia House provides women in Avon, Ohio, a free place to live and recover from alcohol and drug addictions. Women in the house participate in a daily structure that includes time at treatment centers and group devotionals.

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  • Embracing their place on ‘the fringes,' queer artists reimagine Jewish ritual garments for all bodies

    January 03, 2023 |

    The Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The Tzitzit Project makes Jewish ritual garments typically produced for and worn by Orthodox men in shapes and colors for a variety of bodies and genders to appeal to a more diverse set of people.

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  • Volunteer-led group sends books to incarcerated women statewide

    December 23, 2022 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    Incarcerated women in North Carolina can write letters to request books from the NC Women’s Prison Book Project. Volunteers sort through donated books to best match the requests and send up to three books a month to each person. The project aims to provide intellectual stimulation and a break from the isolation that comes with incarceration.

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  • Through waste management eTrash2Cash is saving planet earth, helping women access healthcare

    December 22, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    eTrash2Cash strives to create a healthy, sustainable zero-waste society by collecting trash and recycling it to become useful resources. It does this by employing women with low incomes to do the waste collection and recycling and in turn, provides them with social incentives like access to healthcare. So far, eTrash2Cash has diverted over 10,000 metric tons of trash out of landfills across four states and has trained 200 women on how to upcycle plastics.

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  • "I would've been a mum of 3": NGO is empowering girl child from Lagos slums

    December 09, 2022 |

    Legit.ng |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos

    The Center for Children's Health Education, Orientation and Protection, or CEE-HOPE, works to address the challenges young girls growing up in poorer neighborhoods face, including lack of education and skills development and high child marriage rates. The organization helps these young girls access education and shelters for those experiencing abuse, helping to better themselves and turn them into advocates for other young girls.

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  • "Golden Girls" find community and safety in Western Slope shelter

    November 28, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Grand Junction, Colorado

    The Golden Girls shelter has been providing meals, medical aid, and other support services for women with children who are experiencing homelessness. Since the Golden Girls living space opened, the program has served a total of 50 women ranging in age from the early 50s to late 70s. While at the shelter, staff members help them complete paperwork so they can receive Social Security payments, pensions, or alimony, and apply for affordable housing. They’re also provided medical care, counseling, and assistance finding jobs.

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  • La Lucha Sigue: Lessons From Latin America's Abortion Victories

    November 21, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Attorneys and activists in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina used a multipronged approach to legalize abortion that included grassroots organizing, strategically initiating lawsuits, and changing cultural narratives. The last part was key to the movements’ successes because changing the laws without changing the cultural understanding of abortion as a normal part of healthcare can lead to laws not being implemented or being overturned, like what happened in the United States in 2022.

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  • Environmental Degradation : How Women Coalition is Championing Restoration of Peace in Niger Delta

    October 27, 2022 |

    Page TV Nigeria |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, River State

    The Coalition of Ogoni Women is working to foster peace in their communities and reduce youth participation in crime through open communication with youth and government officials while also advocating for women to have more authority in the communities.

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