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  • Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk Into Cheese And Yogurt For The Hungry

    July 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Peach Bottom, Pennsylvania

    Cows will produce the same amount of milk no matter the demand for the product, and with supply staying steady and demand decreasing, a surplus of milk is thrown out routinely. Through a collaborative effort by farmers and a local non-profit in Pennsylvania, however, a solution has emerged that not only turns the extra milk into cheese and yogurt, but supplies the products to those in need.

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  • Papua New Guinea Aims To Redefine Masculinity In A Way That's Nonviolent

    July 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    Advocates who created a hotline for domestic abuse survivors in Papua New Guinea were surprised when many of the people seeking their services were men who had hit their partners. The anonymous phone service allows men to open up about their problems that led to the violence. Other programs focus on teaching young men about healthy relationships and to rethink traditional notions of masculinity that contribute to the country being among the worst in the world for intimate partner violence.

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  • Microbial Magic Could Help Slash Your Dinner's Carbon Footprint

    June 29, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States

    "What if we could help plants make their own nitrogen so they wouldn't need manmade chemical fertilizers?" That was the question that drove a plant microbiologist at the University of Washington to begin testing ways to infuse microbes that live inside trees into other plants to promote sustainable agriculture. The early results show not only healthier plants, but a more plentiful production.

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  • Muslim Sex Educators Forge Their Own #MeToo Movement

    June 23, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    For almost ten years, HEART Women and Girls, has been offering culturally-specific sex education for the Muslim community across the United States. HEART not only provides in-person training and online discussions, but also trains professionals outside of the HEART community who work with Muslim women experiencing sexual harassment or abuse.

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  • What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool

    June 19, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    When a group of preschool teachers in Ghana were taught about child-centered and open-ended learning as an alternative to a traditional rote memorization approach, they saw improvements in students' pre-literacy and pre-numeracy scores. The intervention served as a response to revelations of poor performance among early elementary school students. This despite the fact that 80 percent of 3 year olds in Accra, Ghana were enrolled in preschool. While some teachers have successfully rolled out the collaborative style in their classrooms, others have been met with significant cultural resistance.

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  • Men Teaching Men To Be Better Husbands And Dads

    June 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    MenCare is a health education program for rural Rwandan fathers, which teaches tactic for parenting, couples communication, and understanding prenatal care. Families whose patriarch participated in the program reported less domestic violence than those in a control group. Educational groups for men are part of a movement for women’s empowerment.

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  • 'Where The Need Is': Tackling Teen Pregnancy With A Midwife At School

    June 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    In some D.C. neighborhoods with high rates of teen pregnancy, schools are stepping in with more than just school nurses; dedicated midwives have conversations with students, educating students, providing birth control, and supporting teens who have had children and continued with high school. The informal advice and constant presence in schools mean the midwives can reach students who might not have reached out otherwise, ultimately helping to prevent teen pregnancies and build healthier families.

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  • For Survivors Of Domestic Abuse In Papua New Guinea, Volunteers Offer Safe Havens

    June 06, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    Volunteer advocates in Papua New Guinea are trained by the United Nations to be human rights defenders and are crucial links for women facing abuse to help them navigate through legal proceedings to get protection. In a country where many officials are bribed and women have few resources to get help, the defenders are usually their only route to escape. It's dangerous work but when it works by coordinating many sectors it's effective.

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  • Gun Studies: Permit Laws Reduce Murders; Red Flag Laws Cut Suicides

    June 04, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Indiana

    New research on “red flag laws,” which allow the removal of guns police or courts deem someone is a danger to themselves or others, shows they have been effective at reducing firearms-related suicides when there is effective enforcement. However there is little data on how they affect murder rates, while gun permit laws requiring people to have licenses to buy guns do appear to decrease murder rates, according to another new study.

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  • Secrets Of A Maya Supermom: What Parenting Books Don't Tell You

    May 11, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Yucatan

    For generations, parenting advice provided to American parents was based less on science than on a “WEIRD” bias—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Researchers are now trying to identify these biases and expand the study of parenting strategies past the small segment of American parenting.

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