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  • Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

    Laura Joffre

    July 04, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Peru

    Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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  • Moved by Experience: PWD-led Initiative is Building Safe Space for Persons with Disabilities in Borno 

    Yahuza Abdulkadir

    June 28, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri

    Via educational workshops, the provision of mobility devices, and entrepreneurial support, a Polio-survivor-led initiative in Nigeria is reducing stigmas about disabilities and helping eradicate polio diseases. Since 2017, the crowd-funded group has assisted more than 200 people with disabilities and reduced the number of folks who have to ask for alms on the streets.

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  • Can the bioeconomy replace oil extraction in the Ecuadorian Amazon?

    Gabriela Barzallo

    June 22, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Communities in Ecuador are building a “bioeconomy” through ecotourism and sustainable agriculture instead of relying on oil extraction. This can help protect the country’s biodiversity and increase locals’ incomes.

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  • ENUGU: gate pass to early marriage no more

    Makinde Ajayi Alfred

    June 21, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    The Women Information Network’s Right to be a Girl project provides scholarships to girls who would otherwise be forced to drop out of school, many of whom are vulnerable to child marriage. The program has supported 573 students in schools across Enugu state since 2021.

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  • What Ohio's Co-op Evangelists Learned From Spain's Thriving Union Co-op Network

    Cinnamon Janzer

    June 21, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    Modeled after Spain’s Mondragon, an organization that helps develop cooperatively-owned businesses, Co-op Cincy is a nonprofit incubator helping businesses in Cincinnati, Ohio, do the same. The organization runs an educational course to teach teams everything they need to know, provides access to loans, and has ongoing technical assistance for its co-ops.

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  • This NYC elementary school wants to serve everyone, including kids with complex disabilities

    Alex Zimmerman

    June 20, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    At P.S. 958 in Brooklyn, students with and without disabilities learn together under an inclusive model. Initiatives such as the AIMS program, which is designed for students with autism, allow the school to serve students who might otherwise be segregated in more restrictive settings geared only toward those with disabilities.

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  • In spite of Rising Insecurity, Unemployment in Nigeria: an NGO is Supporting Internally Displaced women with Soft, Hard Skills

    Daniel Adaji

    June 19, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Skilled Women Initiative training and impact fund trains women in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps, on marketable skills, like sewing, to help them make money and eventually afford to open their own businesses and leave the camps. So far the Initiative has trained over 1,500 women across several states.

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  • Ex-female refugee conserving South Sudan's disappearing forest

    Richard Sultan

    June 19, 2023 |

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    Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

    Vivian Kide learned to build fuel-efficient stoves in a Ugandan refugee camp to use less charcoal and prevent deforestation. When she returned home to South Sudan, she began building stoves for other women in her community and teaching them how to do so themselves.

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  • A sanctuary of literary rituals moulds teenagers into star writers

    Yahuza Bawage

    June 17, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Minna

    Through the Hill-top Creative Arts Foundation, teen writers in Nigeria receive mentorship from established writers and learn to give critique and be critiqued by their peers, with the ultimate goal of helping them become published authors.

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  • The Soil Farmers: Black Food Sovereignty and Climate Solutions

    Justin Cook

    June 16, 2023 |

    NC Newsline |

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    Response Location: United States, Pinetops, North Carolina

    Kendrick Ransome uses ancestral farming techniques like low-till farming and conservation tilling to improve soil health and sequester more carbon on his farm. He founded Freedom Org to teach youth these practices and help other Black farmers do the same after decades of racist lending policies have dwindled their numbers.

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