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  • Tigray war rape victims turn to Rwandan genocide survivors to heal trauma

    Veronique Mistiaen Hana Kahsay

    October 22, 2024 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: Ethiopia, Tigray

    Groups of women, in collaboration with local charity organization Daughters of Charity, are working together to create HAL (helpful active listening) circles to help survivors of sexual and gender-based violence heal. HAL circles are women-to-women groups led by those trained in supportive communication skills, the effects of trauma on the mind and body and healthy coping methods. Over the past several years, the group has connected with 1,320 survivors.

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  • Off the coast of Italy, a radical approach to battling illegal fishing: a seafloor sculpture museum

    Veronique Mistiaen

    February 07, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Italy

    An unlikely sculpture museum is helping to battle illegal fishing off the coast of Italy, but this one museum you'll have to dive to see. Over 39 sculptures make up this underwater exhibit and serve as a physical barrier to seafloor trawling.

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  • Yemen's ‘microgrid girls' power community amid war and COVID-19

    Veronique Mistiaen

    October 18, 2020 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Yemen, Abs

    A solar-grid station is powering rural Yemeni communities on the front-line of the war and in the midst of COVID-19, while also empowering women who typically have very few professional opportunities. The microgrid project supplies the community with affordable and clean energy, replacing expensive diesel generators which are bad for the environment. Electricity bills have been cut by 65 percent, an impressive gain in one of the world's poorest country. Thousands of entrepreneurs have generated income based on the new electricity source and many more have benefitted from new services and products available.

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  • How Rwanda is improving uptake of HPV immunisation

    Veronique Mistiaen

    June 30, 2020 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    To raise awareness about and increase rates of HPV immunization in Rwanda, a local vaccine alliance formed a partnership with a digital-minded nonprofit to better directly reach adolescent girls throughout the community. The nonprofit implemented messaging from the vaccine alliance into an existing "girl-centric" campaign and early results have indicated an increased awareness of cervical cancer while "Rwanda’s HPV and routine childhood diseases vaccination programs have achieved 95%-97% coverage."

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