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  • Girls in Rural Uganda Turn to an Organic Solution to Navigate Period Pain

    November 06, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Uganda, Mpigi

    She Deserves Uganda provides menstrual hygiene education to young girls and an organic aromatherapy solution to pain from period cramps they call The Cramp Relief Droppers, as a safer and more affordable alternative to traditional over-the-counter painkillers. The group has provided menstrual health education to over 10,000 girls across 50 schools and has distributed over 1,540 units of The Cramp Relief Droppers.

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  • Crops, cows, and solar panels? Why farmers are harvesting sunlight.

    November 06, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Spurred by federal and state incentives, farmers in Massachusetts are adopting agrivoltaics, the practice of installing a solar array on the same land they use for crops and livestock.

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  • Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos: Crisis y Oportunidad

    November 05, 2024 |

    Santa Teresa Hoy |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Varios actores y organizaciones han empezado proyectos que reciclan los Residuos Sólidos Orgánicos, ayundando desviar y reciclar un gran porcentaje del total de los residuos que se generan en los hogares de Costa Rica.

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  • Why Utah Is Bucking One of the West's Oldest Water Rules

    November 05, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    Utah is ditching the “use it or lose it” water rights doctrine to encourage farmers to conserve water amid severe water shortages. Instead, it’s encouraging farmers to use less water while allowing them to keep their rights to it. The government is awarding funding for efficiency upgrades and creating a system for farmess to lease out the saved water.

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  • An organisation deploys strategic storytelling to transform lives in rural Nigeria

    November 05, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Calabar, Cross River

    The Bonnicare Foundation garners support and funding for people in need of education, healthcare and economic empowerment through visual storytelling on social media. This approach helps humanize the challenges people are facing, encouraging those with the means to donate. With the funding they’ve received through social media donations, the Bonnicare Foundation has helped pay the school fees for more than 1,000 primary and secondary school students in rural areas.

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  • This app developer is giving displaced young Nigerians an educational lifeline

    November 05, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Flowdiary is an e-learning platform that offers various digital skill courses in the Hausa language for free or at a very low cost. Flowdiary has more than 8,000 students enrolled across the country, training them in web development, graphic design and other digital skills that help them further their education and secure internships that help them advance their career opportunities.

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  • In the North Carolina mountains, the VA is making house calls to veterans still isolated from Helene

    November 04, 2024 |

    WUNC |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the regional Veterans Affairs system around the Charles George VA Medical Center is sending out teams to provide services and supplies to more than 2,600 high-risk veterans living in isolated areas.

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  • A Colorado Groundwater Experiment Tackles Urgent Conservation Needs

    November 04, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    Farmers in arid, drought-prone regions are creating groundwater conservation easements with nonprofits to reduce their water use in a financially feasible way. For these agreements, farmers reduce the acres they grow crops on in perpetuity in exchange for payment and tax benefits.

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  • FG's funding initiative is transforming healthcare access in Niger State

    November 01, 2024 |

    CrispNG |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Niger

    The Basic Healthcare Provision Fund (BHCPF) provided by the federal government is increasing healthcare access for vulnerable populations by renovating dilapidated hospitals and improving access to reliable medical services and resources like medications and potable water.

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  • Advocates are working to increase incarcerated voter engagement in San Diego. Here's how:

    November 01, 2024 |

    KFMB-TV |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    In San Diego County, Pillars of the Community trained people incarcerated in local jails to become “inside organizers” who can help others incarcerated there register to vote and fill out their ballots. In all, seven inside organizers helped roughly 230 people register to vote ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

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