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19 June 2020
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Over 3000 Words
While many states across the United States are still working to contain the coronavirus, Hawaii has managed to curb cases in part because of the state's geography, but moreso due to local government officials prioriti...
18 June 2020
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
Quick, restrictive and decisive action helped the "oldest African American owned and operated nursing home" in Maryland remain free of Covid-19 cases. With only 15 cases reported in the country, the nursing home didn'...
Yes! Magazine
Tracy Barnett
17 June 2020
Oaxaca, Mexico
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1500-3000 Words
Mark Brown has brought Ghandian economic principles of economic justice and local autonomy to the Mexican countryside to form a farm-to-garment textile business that employs villagers who once made woolen textiles unt...
The Conversation
Mary Battenfeld
16 June 2020
United States
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800-1500 Words
The pandemic of 2020 bears a heavy resemblance to the pandemic of 1918, and the U.S. can learn from the successes of the past. Investing heavily in school nurses, fostering cross-sector and public/private partnerships...
New Vision
Jacky Achan
15 June 2020
Uganda
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1500-3000 Words
To help pregnant women during the COVID-10 pandemic, the government in Uganda sold travel and private hospital care vouchers to those in their third trimester to ensure the women had access to the care they would need...
Ensia
Kamala Thiagarajan
11 June 2020
Bengaluru, India
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800-1500 Words
An innovative approach to combat climate change involves growing forests and resorting natural vegetation on degraded or barren land. Known as the Miyawaki technique, planting seedlings of indigenous trees close toget...
Inter Press Service News Agency
Daniel Gutman
10 June 2020
Entre Rios, Argentina
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800-1500 Words
Solar energy has provided an affordable and efficient source of energy to rural farmers in Argentina, who live too far off the electrical grid and have traditionally relied on powerful diesel-fueled water pumps. Solar...
Bloomberg Businessweek
Paul Tullis
5 June 2020
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1500-3000 Words
The Netherlands approach of balancing the potential for future economic hardship with the current risk of Covid-19 spreading has appeared to have helped the country to flatten the curve of cases faster than other area...
4 June 2020
New Jersey, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Citizen watchdogs can hold local police accountable by using the tactics of investigative reporters that have successfully exposed systemic problems and sparked reforms. One reporter shares five approaches he’s used t...
3 June 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
A group of tech-savy Swarthmore College alumni are helping to get a surplus of personal protective equipment into the hands of the medical professionals who need it most. Tapping into communities where it's not uncomm...
2 June 2020
Henderson, Nevada, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Western Governors University in Henderson, Nevada is one of many educational institutions in the United States redefining how students can get degrees through technical skill-oriented programs. Students can obtain cer...
1 June 2020
South Korea
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Under 800 Words
Lessons learned from the outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2015 helped South Korea uniquely prepare a quick and effective response to the recent coronavirus outbreak. With several new strategies i...
1 June 2020
Austin, Texas, United States
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800-1500 Words
ConnectATX provides a directory of myriad resources available to residents in Austin, Texas. The services include food aid, rent relief, mental health, childcare, and transportation. ConnectATX has representatives who...
May/June 2020
United States
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Over 3000 Words
Indigo Agriculture, an ag-tech startup, is looking to pay farmers to draw carbon dioxide from the air and store it in the ground, which could help mitigate the effects of climate change and lower greenhouse gas emissi...
Staten Island Advance
Jordan Hafizi
31 May 2020
Staten Island, New York, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Dance, karate, and music instructors in Staten Island, New York are adapting and shifting the ways they deliver lessons to work within the virtual landscape their students, and the rest of society are living in due to...
29 May 2020
Kerala, India
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The local government in Kerala implemented swift and aggressive measures to contain the coronavirus, within three days of learning that China was experiencing an outbreak. The success of the state is largely due to th...
28 May 2020
Tanzania
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1500-3000 Words
A nongovernmental organization, Sanku, invented a new technology that allows a machine to mix in the right amount of basic nutrients into flour that children and others need. By working directly with the millers and c...
28 May 2020
Tijuana, Mexico
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800-1500 Words
To continue serving tens of thousands of refugees stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border during the pandemic, shelters have collaborated on an improvised system to deliver food aid, emergency hotel accommodations, and legal ...
The Guardian
Anne Pinto-Rodrigues
28 May 2020
Khonoma, Nagaland, India
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800-1500 Words
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 ...
Novinky.cz
Barbora Cihelkova
26 May 2020
Brno, Czech Republic
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1500-3000 Words
Symbios, a group home in Brno, Czech Republic, aims to equip young adults who grew up in children's homes with life skills by pairing them with college-aged adults, who come from traditional home environments. Within ...
Religion News Service
Jacob Wirtschafter
18 May 2020
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
An interfaith partnership between religions institutions and communities in Arizona has helped provide mask-making jobs to those who have lost their sources of income during the coronavirus pandemic. Participants incl...
17 May 2020
Los Angeles, California, United States
Radio
3-5 Minutes
Community Services Unlimited (CSU) is a local organization in Southern California that is helping to increase access to healthy foods for families all year round, but especially now during the Covid-19 pandemic. Unlik...
BBC
Anna Jones
15 May 2020
Vietnam
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800-1500 Words
Vietnam's approach to handling the Covid-19 pandemic prioritized prevention over eradication which, so far, has helped the country avoid virus-caused deaths. Although the restriction in places, such as quarantine faci...
14 May 2020
United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Supply chains have been disrupted with the restrictions imposed by the Coronavirus pandemic, and farmers are suffering from a lack of buying customers. Meanwhile, food banks are in dire straits as more and more people...
14 May 2020
Germany
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, Germany has seen some of the lowest death rates in the world. Reasons behind that rate have been attributed to the widespread, accessible testing and subsequent quarantining of ind...
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