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10 June 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Promotoras is a model used in Latin America since the 1950s, where respected community members perform health outreach and host events to answer questions about healthcare access and treatments. The program seeks to e...
9 March 2020
Florida, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Fair Food Program, which educates and empowers farmworkers to report on-the-job sexual harassment, has all but eliminated sexual assaults at participating farms in an industry that otherwise is known for vast powe...
19 February 2020
Bogota, Colombia
Text
1500-3000 Words
In a time when many Western countries are closing their doors to refugees, Colombia has been particularly welcoming to migrants and refugees. The country has enacted a series of laws that make it easier for incoming V...
4 February 2020
Tijuana, Mexico
Radio
5-15 Minutes
"The Nest" in Tijuana is a space for migrant children to relax and be themselves during a very stressful time. "The Nest" was established by the Pedagogical Institute of Los Angeles and sits across the street from a s...
1 February 2020
Jordan
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Jordan is dealing with an influx of Syrian refugees that are putting a strain on already scarce resources like water. In response, the United Nations World Food Program has started to grow barley and other foods hydro...
2 January 2020
Berlin, Germany
Text
800-1500 Words
One newsroom in Berlin is giving exiled journalists a chance to not only continue practicing journalism but to do so in their native language. With so many journalists forced to start careers anew, Alma Magazine is ta...
20 November 2019
Syria
Text
800-1500 Words
Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee created a special show for displaced Syrian children conducted entirely in Arabic. The show teaches children lessons like counting and the alphabet, but it also t...
Al Jazeera
Kimberley Brown
30 September 2019
Juncal, Ecuador
Text
800-1500 Words
Carmen Carcelen lives in northern Ecuador with her husband, eight children, and hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who are fleeing poverty, violence, and hyperinflation at home. Carcelen has been providing food and shelt...
21 September 2019
Berlin, Germany
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800-1500 Words
A German organization called Uber den Tellerrand brings together refugees and locals for a meal handmade by those who migrated from Syria and Iraq. The meal brings people together over a delicious meal, offers authent...
17 September 2019
Ukhia, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
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1500-3000 Words
In the Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Bangladesh, Rohingya women are overcoming the societal restraints that bound them at home in Myanmar and becoming leaders and change-makers in their community. Despite resistance from...
5 September 2019
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
LGBTQ asylum seekers face a unique set of problems coming to the United States, often from places where gender expression and sexuality are strictly regulated. Four organizations across the US, Mexico, and Canada are ...
28 August 2019
United States
Text
Under 800 Words
A campaign called Muslims for Migrants by the Islamic nonprofit CelebrateMercy raises money to pay bond fees for immigrant parents who are detained while awaiting trial. The funds are donated to another nonprofit call...
20 August 2019
New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Connecting children with volunteer lawyers can greatly assist immigration cases. Nonprofits like the Safe Passage Project and Kids in Need of Defense (KIND) work to provide children, often separated from their familie...
13 August 2019
New York, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With the help of legal counsel, immigrants facing deportation are more likely to win their cases and keep their families together. The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project is one of several organizations in New Yor...
NowThis News
Chloe Kellison
11 August 2019
Los Angeles, California, United States
Video
Under 3 Minutes
School on Wheels is a program serving children in a refugee camp along the U.S.-Mexico border by transforming an old school bus into a space for learning. The school can fit up to 80 children, all of whom are waiting ...
2 August 2019
Bidibidi, Uganda
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
The Bidibidi refugee settlement in Uganda, the largest such settlement in the world, is working with a number of agencies including the UNHCR and The Office of the Prime Minister to address environmental issues in the...
2 August 2019
San Diego, California, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
One way that any ordinary citizen can lend a hand to the plight of those caught in the American immigration system is by being a court observer: someone who sits in immigration court and takes notes by hand. Several o...
Things That Work Uganda
Agwere Sarah
27 July 2019
Bidibidi, Uganda
Text
Under 800 Words
The Yoyo Vocational Institute was established in one of the largest refugee camps in the world, Bidibidi, to help refugees and migrants learn vocational skills that can then be used for employment. The Institute also ...
26 July 2019
Bidibidi, Uganda
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
YOYO Youth Vocational Training and Recreational Center is a vocational school in Zone 3 of Bidibidi, the largest refugee settlement in the world. The school is a product of a partnership amongst organizations such as ...
9 July 2019
Teknaf, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh
Text
Under 800 Words
The Shalbagan refugee camp in Bangladesh is one of 30 similar camps to elect leaders, except in this one women made up half of the elected officials. Over 40,000 Rohingya refugees live in the camp, and they come from ...
19 June 2019
Gaziantep, Gaziantep Province, Turkey
Text
800-1500 Words
A small Turkish city named Gaziantep, only 60 miles from war-torn Aleppo, is a role model when it comes to taking in and integrating migrants fleeing violence in Syria. Gaziantep has already taken in 500,00 refugees (...
21 May 2019
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
As the struggles of refugees and immigrants drudges on, a number of cities across the US are gathering funding for their legal defense. One strategy, a legal counsel program called New York Family Immigrant Unity Proj...
Pine Tree Watch
Peter Weed
4 May 2019
Portland, Maine, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
Organizations and local governments in Maine put together the complex puzzle that is immigrant employment status. By connecting varying pieces, from providing English classes to establishing professional credentials, ...
22 April 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Elevating the voices of noncitizen community members takes building trust through outreach and education. After the passage of Proposition N, allowing local non-citizens in San Francisco to participate in school board...
22 April 2019
El Paso, Texas, United States
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1500-3000 Words
For undocumented youth who commute between El Paso, Texas and Juárez, Mexico for school, finding a community to connect with and feel safe in is especially challenging. The Christian youth organization Young Life is t...
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