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  • NHIS: Has the Nigerian government failed corp members with its NYSC health inclusive initiative?

    March 14, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is a social health insurance program that provides access to free, quality healthcare services to corps members and civil servants and protects families from the financial hardship of medical bills. The NHIS covers out-patient care, medicine, diagnostic tests, maternity care, eye examinations and dental care, among other services. Since it was launched in February 2022, more than 2,000 corps members have benefited from the NHIS benefits.

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  • Lagos breast milk bank is cultivating a culture of donation among new mothers

    March 14, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Milk Bank Nigeria provides donor breast milk for sick, low birth weight and premature babies in neonatal ICUs across the country to reduce mortality in preterm babies. The Milk Bank Nigeria launched in August 2022 and as of Decemeber the organization had registered four donors who had supplied 33 liters of breast milk.

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  • Drug Aid is attempting to improve equitable access to medicine with novel approach

    March 14, 2023 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Drug Aid Africa sources unused, unaltered drugs from people who don’t need them anymore and distributes them to people who do need them but can’t afford or access them. Drug Aid Africa provides free routine medications for conditions like sickle-cell anemia, as well as antimalarials, antibiotics and frequent visits to communities where they provide healthcare support and supplies. So far, the organization's efforts have helped more than 10,000 people.

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  • Too Good to Go

    March 14, 2023 |

    The Food Fix |

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    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Denmark

    Restaurants, grocers, and cafes can put together surprise bags of surplus food that would have otherwise been thrown out and sell it for a third of the original cost to users on the Too Good to Go app. The app was designed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that accompany food waste while giving businesses a way to recoup losses and consumers a less expensive way to access good food.

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  • What It Takes To Shelter Washington State's Housing Insecure Youth

    March 13, 2023 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    School districts in Washington State are required to identify students experiencing homelessness and enroll them into a state program in which the district pays for the students' transportation and covers the cost of other necessities with allotted federal funds.

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  • How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

    March 13, 2023 |

    AZ Central (The Arizona Republic) |

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    Response Location: United States, Gila Bend, Arizona

    An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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  • Tenants Empowering Tenants

    March 13, 2023 |

    DÍG en Español |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    Tenant advocacy group Long Beach Residents Empowered (LIBRE) works with renters and helps them advocate for themselves against tenant harassment, unsafe living conditions and unjust evictions. LIBRE is divided into various campaigns, each with a different focus, like neighborhood organizing or training others about how to fight for tenant protection and advocate for policy change.

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  • Who's going to check them? Racial equity audits can help corporate America keep its promises to address systemic racism

    March 13, 2023 |

    The Boston Globe |

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    Response Location: United States

    Racial equity audits are conducted to identify where racial inequities exist within an organization and then provides strategies the organization can implement to work toward promoting racial equity. Several major companies, like Airbnb, have participated in these audits since they emerged in 2011, aiming to create a workplace with less racial bias and discrimination.

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  • This Juárez Nonprofit Uses Sports To Deter Youth From Violence

    March 13, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Ciudad Juárez

    Wellness schools, Escuelas de Bienestar, run by a nonprofit in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, train physical education teachers to integrate topics like human rights, drug prevention, and emotional health into the play in their school programming. The learning combined with play aims to deter youth from participating in violence and help them build personal connections.

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  • Boarding School Alumni Push for a New Kind of Abuse Investigation

    March 13, 2023 |

    Christianity Today |

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    Response Location: Japan

    In an effort to uncover decades of abuse allegations at the Christian Academy of Japan, investigators began working with academy alumni who helped push the investigation forward. Over the course of several years, alumni met regularly, clocking thousands of hours of work on the case, meeting with investigators and survivors. When the final report was released in 2021, 72 cases of alleged abuse — including sexual, physical, emotional and child-on-child abuse — were uncovered over a 44 year period.

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