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  • Money clubs help displaced Nigerians create their own safety nets

    January 23, 2024 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Women at displacement camps in Nigeria are using a traditional method of saving and loaning money called Adashe to provide each other with financial support. The women in the Adashe group pool their extra money into a collective fund and split it between group members on a monthly rotation.

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  • An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

    January 23, 2024 |

    Tennessee Lookout |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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  • Can Prescription Meal Kits Help Fight Diabetes?

    January 22, 2024 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Stockton, California

    Healthy Food Rx is a prescription meal kit delivery program that delivers twice-monthly meal kits to adults with diabetes, providing them with produce and other healthy foods. The program addresses food insecurity, while also making a case for the power of using food as medicine to manage chronic conditions.

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  • At Sahara's edge, old habits protect crops from new climate

    January 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Senegal, Ndiob

    Farmers in Ndiob, Senegal, have returned to an ancient technique called zaï to combat drought, use less fertilizer, and increase their yields. Zaï involves drilling holes in the soil so rainwater can fill them and soak into the land instead of running off.

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  • Mobile crisis unit looks to the future after debut year

    January 19, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    Project LIGHT (Lessen the Incidence of Grief, Harm and Trauma) is a co-responder team that combines paramedics and licensed social workers to respond to mental health crises. The project responded to 940 in its first year, most of which ended with the patient being transported to a mental health care provider or receiving treatment on-scene rather than being arrested.

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  • A drying sea half a world away carries a message for those worried about the Great Salt Lake

    January 18, 2024 |

    Great Salt Lake Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    At the steadily shrinking Aral Sea and the Great Salt Lake, officials have stemmed some of the water, salinity, and biodiversity losses by sectioning off healthier sections of the bodies of water with a dam and a causeway.

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  • Yellowstone Club becomes first ski resort in Montana to turn wastewater into snow 

    January 18, 2024 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Montana

    The Yellowstone Club ski resort in Montana is misting treated wastewater into the air with machines to make snow. This keeps its ski runs open during dry winters and produces more runoff in the summers to recharge crucial aquifers.

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  • Power of Mama: the women firefighters of West Borneo

    January 18, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Ketapang

    An all-women firefighting team in Ketapang, Indonesia, is stopping people from setting fires to clear land, a practice called slash and burn, and putting out the fires they can’t prevent. Arsonists often set fire to peatlands, which pollutes the air and releases stored carbon dioxide.

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  • Native nations with scarce internet are building their own broadband networks

    January 17, 2024 |

    Stateline |

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    Response Location: Hopi Reservation, United States, Arizona

    In an effort to address a lack of broadband access, Indigenous communities are working together, and with local organizations, to acquire funding to bring internet access to their communities and close the digital divide.

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  • Ceasefire, Oakland's gun violence prevention program, is in the spotlight. What is it?

    January 17, 2024 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Oakland California’s Ceasefire program brings together the police department, other government agencies, community organizations, and residents to address violent crime. Organizers give resources and incentives to people involved in crime to encourage them to stop participating, if that doesn’t work the police move forward with making arrests.

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