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'No one should go hungry': street fridges of free food help Americans survive Covid pandemic

Frida Garza

August 10, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Community refrigerators full of free food for anyone in need have popped up in the New York metro area. "Fridge keepers" help keep the fridges stocked either personally or through the help of locals and restaurants who want to help their neighbors. With federal aid ending for those who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, some locals have relied on the stocked fridges for their next meal.

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'An awakening': the George Floyd protests spur surge in Black voter registration

Megan Botel Isaiah Murtaugh

August 07, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United States

Advocacy organizations conducted voter outreach and registered new voters at Black Lives Matters protests on a scale not seen since the civil rights era. HeadCount, a voter-registration organization, created QR codes that anyone with a printer could put on protest signs. Other attendees could scan the codes with their smartphones to immediately register to vote. The group registered 14,898 new voters in June 2020, compared with 1,204 in June 2016. Political organizing at the summer’s protest events contributed to higher turnout in local and national elections, particularly among Black and Latino voters.

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Use of plastic bags in England drops by 59% in a year

Rebecca Smithers

July 30, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, England

The sales of single-use plastic bags has dropped by more than 95 percent in England’s supermarkets since 2015 when a monetary fee was introduced to encourage shoppers to reduce their plastic waste. Despite this reduction, research suggests that the amount of plastic waste in the world’s oceans was still likely to triple in volume in the next 20 years.

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‘I just need a connection': the refugees teaching languages across borders

Ruth Michaelson

June 17, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Lebanon

NaTakallam offers classes in Arabic, Spanish, Persian and French that are taught by refugees. The 64 teachers conduct classes with 770 students entirely online, allowing people from all over the world to learn from native speakers. It also circumvents work restrictions for refugees in their new homes, which means they can earn money. The group’s teachers also speak in university classes, offer translation services, and some now work on New York University’s Arabic-language program. Deep friendships that help combat the isolation experienced by many refugees have also emerged from the online classes.

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India's first 'green' village adapts to life without tourists

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

May 28, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: India, Khonoma, Nagaland

Despite the lockdown and loss of tourism income due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the village of Kohonoma in India has been able to maintain a high level of food security for its people. Because of previous legal changes and grant money, villagers were able to change their lifestyle to support the community’s tourism industry and preserve its sustainable agriculture practices. Village leaders are hopeful that their conservation and sustainable development efforts will continue post-pandemic and will encourage other communities to do the same.

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'I might have died if they hadn't rescued me': life inside the new hotels for the homeless

Amelia Gentleman

May 07, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

Across England and Wales, over 5,000 individuals experiencing homelessness have found temporary accommodations in hotels. Paid for by the government as part of it’s COVID-19 relief efforts, hotels are working with social services to help provide housing, food, and other basic necessities to those going through housing insecurity. Not without challenges, the initiative has seen zero deaths from the pandemic but those working to help this initiative worry about the long-term.

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Finnish basic income pilot improved wellbeing, study finds

Jon Henley

May 07, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Finland

The Finnish government's experiment with basic income revealed the mental and emotional benefits associated with receiving a small monthly income. The 560-euro amount is not enough to live on but provides a financial security net for those who have experienced long-term unemployment. Basic income allowed participants to consider low-paying jobs that would normally cost them their benefits. The notion of basic income has gained traction across Europe, especially during the pandemic and in the face of general job losses due to automation.

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Aggressive testing and pop songs: how Vietnam contained the coronavirus

Trang Bui

May 01, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Vietnam

Although Vietnam had a limited ability to treat coronavirus patients due to lack of treatment infrastructures, the country has been able to keep their case count low by implementing aggressive testing, contact tracing and information management. The citizens have been receptive to the arguably intrusive measures taken and have also expressed appreciation for the creative approaches used, such as employing pop singers to create educational songs and artists to design influential posters.

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Test, trace, contain: how South Korea flattened its coronavirus curve

Justin McCurry

April 23, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: South Korea, Seoul

With one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and a rapidly declining rate of new COVID-19 cases, South Korea has emerged as a world leader in containing the pandemic. Many credit widespread testing and contact tracing, or the tracking of infected people using their own descriptions of their movements as well as GPS phone tracking, surveillance camera records, and credit card transactions. Though it had a distinct advantage as one of the most connected countries in the world, South Korea's model is being replicated widely.

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Why South Korea's coronavirus death toll is comparatively low

Nemo Kim Maheen Sadiq Marina Costa Nikhita Chulani

April 23, 2020 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: South Korea

South Korea took early and aggressive measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic, and the country has now been able to successfully declare that they've flattened the curve of reported cases. The combined strategy of widespread testing, contact tracing, government transparency, community willingness to self-isolate, and an economy already built for the delivery of goods, helped the country avoid a national lockdown all while still containing the virus.

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