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  • Peanuts, Millet, Beans: simple foods helping to stem Kano's malnutrition crisis

    July 02, 2018 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    When Kano State began measuring the rates of adolescent malnutrition, they found that the number of children that qualified as some degree of malnourished was staggering. To mitigate this statistic from increasing, a television show and local NGO joined forces to implement an intervention that aims to teach families about viable food options and preemptively screen for diseases.

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  • Personalized learning is the new education reform hiding in plain sight

    July 02, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Journalist Laura Pappano travels to Texas to examine how one school is enacting "personalized learning," a trend she suspects may be "more revolutionary than we think." At Dan D. Rogers Elementary School in Dallas, students are taught to lead their own learning starting in their first days of kindergarten. Pappano weighs the pros and cons of the approach, looking at technology and educational equity in these increasingly popular schools.

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  • How an Unknown Reformer Rescued One of America's Most Troubled School Districts

    June 30, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

    In his five years as superintendent of Camden public schools, Paymon Rouhanifard shepherded in a new era of increasing graduation and decreasing suspension rates. Rouhanifard "avoided the extremes of zigzagging educational trends" and combined his background as both a politician and an educator to offer up a long term path to improvement, one that took into consideration the fate of public and charter schools alike. As Rouhanifard moves on, he leaves a unique legacy, one he hopes will prove resistant to the whims of short-term education reform trends.

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  • Immigrant Farmers Revive Dormant Greenhouse to Grow Food From Home

    June 29, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kent, Washington

    In a small town south of Seattle an organization called Living Well Kent, made up of immigrants, refugees, and people of color who dominate the region, decided that the best way to promote health in their area would be to start a farmers' market. Now, immigrant farmers grow crops in previously abandoned greenhouses to supply the farmers market and support the local food bank.

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  • Inside the New Zealand kitchen empowering women refugees

    June 27, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: New Zealand, Wellington

    Pomegranate Kitchen in Wellington, New Zealand employees refugee women from around the world. The kitchen, which operates collaboratively rather than in a hierarchy, encourages these chefs to grow their cooking and managerial strengths as well as overcome cultural boundaries in order to become financially independent.

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  • Muslim Sex Educators Forge Their Own #MeToo Movement

    June 23, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, California

    For almost ten years, HEART Women and Girls, has been offering culturally-specific sex education for the Muslim community across the United States. HEART not only provides in-person training and online discussions, but also trains professionals outside of the HEART community who work with Muslim women experiencing sexual harassment or abuse.

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  • Reviving the City: How an Asphalt Plant Turned Into a Public Park

    June 21, 2018 |

    Urbanet |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Mexico City

    By participating in the decision-making process, Mexico City residents successfully convinced the government to build a public park instead of an office development. The Parque Imán is 2.4 hectares, includes 163 trees, and the green space can potentially benefit up to 200,000 residents of some city boroughs. While there are some concerns about the soil quality in the park due to the adjacent asphalt plant, the park shows how participation from residents and transparency from the government allowed the public space to be built.

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  • Where Birth Control Is Scarce, Young Women Create Sex Education Outside the Classroom

    June 20, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    An internship program in rural Kentucky takes a bottom-up approach to reproductive health education. All Access EKY hires young female interns to create media and social media campaigns about teenage pregnancy and birth control. All Access Media Director Willa Johnson says, “We’re trying to build some of these bridges in our communities so it’s not just teenage girls on an island and health care providers on an island and educators on an island."

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  • How a southwest Detroit construction company is building community by building for the future

    June 19, 2018 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Saldiver-Ali, cofounder of AGI Construction in Detroit, sees construction as “the first step to community development and sustainability.” The company lives out this mission by engaging with long-time residents. Most recently, they have worked on Detroit Future Ops, a community resource center intended to increase employment of and development by minority contractors. Their mission is to ensure their work helps build up the community in an inclusive manner, today and in the future.

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  • Solar Libre: Family Affair

    June 19, 2018 |

    Latino USA |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Puerto Rico

    Hurricane Maria left many properties and people in Puerto Rico completely devastated. One family decided to do what they could to begin the reconstruction process on their own by forming Solar Libre Puerto Rico - a volunteer organizing that brings emergency solar to the region.

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