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  • Over 3,000 Navajo Homes Receive Accurate Addresses

    April 04, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Utah

    To improve voting access for residents of the Navajo Nation, who often don’t have official addresses, the Rural Utah Project partnered with Google to assign and distribute Plus Codes, more accurate address coordinates that use longitude and latitude. The organization has since registered nearly 2,000 new voters using the Plus Codes, and the new addresses have resulted in other unexpected benefits, such as improved response time for emergency responders and better access to delivery services.

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  • Glasses Improve Income, Not Just Eyesight

    April 04, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    VisionSpring provides more than two million pairs of glasses each year to those in need. Studies show that, when provided with free reading glasses, workers experience a 33% increase in income as they’re able to see and aren’t forced to leave the working world early as they age.

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  • South Africa's SAB Foundation: Why 90% of its investees are still in business five years later

    April 04, 2024 |

    Pioneers Post |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The SAB Foundation is an independent trust set up by South African Breweries (SAB) as part of the government’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment scheme. It helps businesses — particularly underserved entrepreneurs like women and people with disabilities — grow and thrive. Since 2010, the Foundation has backed more than 6,400 social impact businesses in their early stages.

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  • Grupo liberal busca atraer a votantes latinos con $57 millones en ocho estados

    April 03, 2024 |

    Noticias Telemundo |

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    Response Location: United States

    Ahora aprovechando su éxito en elecciones pasados, Somos Votantes y su comité de acción política trabajan para ampliar la educación y la participación de los votantes hispanos principalmente a través de visitas puerta a puerta, información bilingüe pagada, y una “sólida” organización comunitaria.

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  • Volunteers make big impact on African healthcare

    March 31, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Local community health volunteers make healthcare more accessible in rural areas by providing services like ambulance taxi rides, which quickly transport people in hard-to-reach areas to clinics when there’s an emergency. These volunteers also share medical information to promote healthy behaviors among those living in villages. There are currently about 100,000 volunteers serving rural communities across the country.

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  • Birmingham violence prevention initiative is 'putting people in positions to win'

    March 27, 2024 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Birmingham, Alabama

    The Surge Project and EmpowerED Birmingham uplift local youth by providing mentorships, tutoring, healthcare resources, workforce development programs and educational opportunities in various fields. In the program's 2023 pilot partnership with the National Training Institute for Healthcare technicians, 32 of the 40 participants graduated with a phlebotomy or EKG certification, and 19 of them were local high school students.

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  • In Lakota Nation, people are asking: Who does a language belong to?

    March 27, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Lakota Nation, United States

    Nonprofits, schools, and individuals are working to revitalize the Lakota language by making it more accessible in a variety of ways, including classes, dictionaries, podcasts, and passing on knowledge from elders.

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  • Despite Russian attacks, Ukrainians are determined to send their children to school

    March 27, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv

    To ensure children can safely attend school during the war, schools are building classrooms in underground metro stations. Over 2,000 students currently attend school in one of the five metro station classrooms built so far.

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  • Where can Minnesota students access free mental-health care?

    March 26, 2024 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Hennepin County, Minnesota

    Public schools in Hennepin County have offered free school-based mental healthcare services to students since 2000, with the number of schools offering care continuously growing. Across the 263 Hennepin County schools that have implemented school-based mental health care, suicide attempts have decreased by 15%.

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  • Light at the End of the Tunnel

    March 26, 2024 |

    Hakai Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Communities in the United States are slowly replacing small culverts that alter the flow of streams and block the paths of migratory fish species with wider culverts and bridges, allowing the ecosystems to recover.

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