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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/opinion/sending-health-to-rural-ghana-via-traveling-medics.html
Andrew Higgins
The New York Times
1 August 2017
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In places such as Ghana, people live far from proper healthcare, which is why Community Health Workers in the region, and in other regions lacking access to healthcare, are being trained. CHW's can help educate individuals about how to stay healthy, increase prevention techniques, and help them get proper medical aid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/well/family/free-lunch-at-the-library.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fus&_r=0
Catherine Saint Louis
The New York Times
30 July 2017
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From New York to Ohio to California, librarians have teamed up with the USDA summer food service program, along with other non-profits, to feed kids dependent on free/reduced-price lunches during the school year. Using census data to locate communities of greatest need and data to measure participation trends, the collaborative has witnessed a surge in effectiveness and impact across the states. Families, librarians, and public officials alike express satisfaction and enthusiasm for the initiative and its future.
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2017/0728/How-a-20-million-person-crisis-goes-unseen
Peter Ford
The Christian Science Monitor
28 July 2017
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Getting public attention on physically distant problems is a concern, exemplified by the fact many don't know about the famine emergencies occurring in the horn of Africa and surrounding area. To attract attention some organizations team up together, call for the public to contact their political representatives, while others appeal to the media.
http://nhpr.org/post/foodstuffs-giving-food-stamp-recipients-place-farmers-markets#stream/0
Ben Henry
NHPR
27 July 2017
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While farmers’ markets popularity has increased in the last decade, the higher prices mitigate equal access to such provisions -- and, by extension, the health benefits. As a result, non-profits and farmers' markets across New Hampshire are collaborating with a state program, Granite State Market Watch, to enable low-income food stamp recipients to use the markets. The state matches every dollar worth of stamps, providing needed purchasing power to enjoy the fresh bounty as well as an increased customer base and revenue stream for the local farmers.
https://www.newsdeeply.com/refugees/articles/2017/07/26/neighborhood-mothers-share-integration-wisdom-with-refugees?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_content=%E2%80%98Neighborhood+Mothers'+Share+Integration+Wisdom+with+Refugees&utm_medium=refugeesdeeply&utm_source=twitter
Yermi Brenner
News Deeply
26 July 2017
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Germany has welcomed many refugees in recent years, and programs across the country are trying to help integrate them as quickly as possible. 'Neighbourhood Mothers' is one such program of migrant women who mentor new refugees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/climate/a-cheap-fix-for-climate-change-pay-people-not-to-chop-down-trees-uganda.html?ref=todayspaper
Brad Plumer
The New York Times
20 July 2017
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In a randomized experiment in western Uganda, scientists demonstrated the effectiveness of paying rural farmers not to chop down trees (responsible for annual CO2 emissions worldwide). They studied for two years the declines in forest cover between a control group (no payment) and the participant group (paid). Building on a United Nations project in which wealthy nations pay poorer ones in an attempt to equalize the costs of responding to climate change, the outcome of the project proves the existence of a low-cost environmental policy solution to stemming rising global temperatures.
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