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  • How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn't

    July 06, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Taiwan

    Throughout 2020, Taiwanese society largely remained open and the country had 7 COVID-19 deaths. Taiwan’s 2003 experience with SARS set up an existing infrastructure to act quickly, including a centralized information command center that coordinated activities across government and health offices. Personal data was used to assign each citizen a risk level. Low-risk people were required to wear free masks, but could go about business as normal. High-risk people and all in-bound travelers were required to strictly quarantine for two weeks and the government used cell phone data to ensure compliance.

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  • Special clinics aim to get COVID vaccine to developmentally disabled

    July 06, 2021 |

    The Connecticut Mirror |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Vernon, Connecticut

    Grassroots volunteer groups are helping people across the country make COVID-19 vaccine appointments. Get Out the Shot: Los Angeles has 100 vetted volunteers who have booked 300 appointments through the group’s system and thousands more on their own. Residents leave a message or fill out a Google form with their information and a volunteer picks up their case, books an appointment, and calls them to confirm. These volunteer organizations fill important assistance gaps in local government services that are stretched thin. Some groups focus on getting appointments for people from underserved communities.

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  • Fulfilling Your Dreams Despite Disabilities Can Be Easy; This Nonprofit Shows How

    July 06, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Network for Inclusion of People with Special Needs (NIPSN) provides empowerment-based counseling, needs-specific rehabilitation, assistive equipment, and vocational training to people with disabilities. Residents live in a dormitory for up to 18 months while they receive services, including training to use assistive technologies. NIPSN also provides vocational training, like making vases, beads, and soap, which can provide a sustainable livelihood. NIPSN helps children finish school and provides free raw materials, equipment, and a small stipend to help residents start producing goods independently.

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  • To Save Lives, This Nonprofit Links Blood Donors To Recipients Using Telegram Bot, Facebook Messenger

    July 06, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    J Blood Match uses intelligence-enabled bots to match people in need of blood with registered donors. Registered users answer a series of prompts to determine their needs, the program identifies matches among a pool of registered donors, and once a match is accepted contact information is shared.

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  • How Bogotá's Waste Pickers Reinvented Their Jobs for a Modern City

    July 05, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Colombia

    In Colombia, there are about 50,000 waste pickers, they collect and sort through trash to findrecyclabless to make a living. Their livelihood was threatened in the 1990s after Colombia adopted neoliberal policies that privatized trash collection. However, in 2016 the government officially recognized wastepickers as recycling service providers under a decree. That same year, the government introduced a "second payment," that supplement the income of waste pickers. Coupled, these two policies have improved the livelihood of wastepickers.

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  • Inside Nigeria's Home-grown School Feeding Programme

    July 05, 2021 |

    Prime Progress |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    A Nigerian initiative to mitigate childhood food insecurity is sourcing food from small farms to provide daily meals in public elementary schools. In addition to improving the health of children, the program hopes to improve school enrollment and create jobs.

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  • Manchester parents form grassroots tutoring initiative to help kids rise to educational challenges

    July 04, 2021 |

    Manchester Ink Link |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Parents, educators, and other members of the community have formed a volunteer tutoring service for children of black, brown, and immigrant families. Extra resources and educational support are necessary for the 46 percent of the Manchester school district students who come from communities of color. In the aftermath of the pandemic, parents were left seeking additional academic support and worked together to provide the solution for their children.

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  • Police response to mentally ill people is under scrutiny. Denver may offer way forward.

    July 04, 2021 |

    NBC News |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Denver

    As the nation’s largest city to embrace an alternative approach to responding to 911 calls in non-violent personal crises, Denver finished the first year of its pilot program having never needed police backup when its medics and social workers handled problems on the streets. About a third of calls to STAR (Support Team Assisted Response) came from police who saw STAR as a better responder to certain calls. In about 40% of calls, people in mental health or substance use crises received the services they needed without involving arrests or conflicts with police.

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  • Could miniature forests help air-condition cities?

    July 03, 2021 |

    The Economist |

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    Response Location: Japan

    The Miyawaki method of planting miniature natural forests in cities as a way to reduce air pollution and cool down temperatures is gaining ground throughout the world. The process involves planting a variety of trees in a particular way that allows for them to grow rapidly. While this method is very labor intensive and can be difficult to scale, there are more than 1,500 of these types of forests in Japan, India, and Pakistan.

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  • ‘Make room for everyone:' Why density could be key to liveability in Langford

    July 02, 2021 |

    The Discourse |

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    Response Location: Canada, Langford, British Columbia

    A new rent-to-own development is providing an affordable housing option. Known as My Belmont, the new solution is combining affordability with walkability as well as access to public transportation - a combination that is hard to find. Although the new project offers limited spots, it’s being highlighted as the type of mixed-used housing developments that can help alleviate the issue of affordable housing and provide a better quality of life.

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