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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/the-real-legacy-of-crazy-horse/534924
Alia Wong
The Atlantic
2 August 2017
Text / Under 800 Words
After generations of waiting, the Oglala Sioux prophecy is coming true. "Now the Seventh Generation is here" and they are creating a renaissance in the culture of one the least developed communities in the United States. By providing a next to nothing price tag on an excellent school, tuition has allowed many children to break the generational poverty chain.
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/design-for-skid-row/532020
Liz Wolfe
CityLab
28 June 2017
Text / Under 800 Words
Mitigating homelessness on Los Angeles' infamous "Skid Row" comprises myriad obstacles. But a collaboration between city officials, a USC architecture class project, and the Skid Row Housing Trust has responded with a multi-pronged solution in "pod-style" housing units. They have composed a cost-effective pre-fab design technology that eases their transportation, on-site construction and visual imposition on a neighborhood, while the pods' zoning classification as "congregant housing" minimizes the risk for local opposition to homeless support services on claims of structural or aesthetic noncompliance.
https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2016/06/02/after-the-nepal-earthquake-weaving-brings-wealth
Liza Ramrayka
News Deeply
2 June 2017
Text / 800-1500 Words
After Nepal's 2015 earthquake, many village women were left with financial devastation and struggled to support their families. With the earthquake having destroyed up to 90% of small enterprises and markets, the United Nations Development Programme trained women how to weave. As a mode of recovery, the weaving industry has helped rebuild the economic and social structures through the Panchakanya group.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/2017/05/italy-pollution-eating-cement-170523134728274.html
Gelareh Darabi
Al Jazeera
25 May 2017
Video / 5-15 Minutes
Respiratory diseases caused by air pollution now account for more premature deaths in people worldwide than malaria and HIV combined. To address increasing contamination levels, particularly in cities, scientists have developed a new kind of cement that absorbs pollutants like CO2. The special cement is being manufactured in Milan, and used around in the world in cities like Paris and Chicago.
http://wmot.org/post/oklahoma-city-based-international-development-ngo-focuses-women#stream/0
Jacob McCleland
WMOT
23 May 2017
Radio / Over 15 Minutes
In many rural villages in Northern India and Nepal, long-standing cultural norms have relegated women to subordinate positions in marriage and minimal educational opportunities, stifling the social, agricultural and economic development of entire communities. But with the NGO World Neighbors' work to increase female literacy and help initiate locally-controlled savings and credit groups, these areas' female residents have become a more empowered component of local development and progressive change.
http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/can-this-music-be-a-force-for-good/75516
Priyanka Borpujari
OZY
17 March 2017
Text / 800-1500 Words
Even in the face of rampant violence, corruption, and poverty in El Salvador, hope rises for youth in the form of TuYulu ("our hearts") batucada workshops. The organization promotes and encourages young groups of musicians and performers to foster community and positive change through the "turbocharged" beats of African-Brazilian drumming.
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