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  • Planting trees – and hope – in a flood-prone Nigerian town

    Ahmad Adedimeji Amobi

    October 18, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Igbajo, Osun

    The community-formed Igbajo Development Association has spent years planting 50,000 trees to help protect the community from severe weather and flooding.

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  • Can SB 9 really help build housing for all in Sacramento?

    Russell Nichols

    October 18, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    The California Housing Opportunity and More Efficiency Act eliminated single-family zoning so homeowners can split their lots to create rentals and make more housing available statewide.

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  • With FoI Act, NGO is Helping to Spotlight Developmental Issues in Lagos Community

    Idowu Adewale

    October 17, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Araromi, Lagos

    Media Rights Agenda helped a community in Lagos, Nigeria, submit Freedom of Information Act requests to draw attention to the community’s lack of basic amenities like roads and clean water. When government organizations ignored the requests, the organization took legal action and released a documentary about the issue to gain public support.

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  • Powering England with the world's largest offshore wind farm

    Sharyn Alfonsi

    October 16, 2022 |

    CBS News |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: England, Grimsby

    Off the coast of Grimsby, England, the largest offshore wind farm in the world created over 500 jobs for a deteriorating fishing town while providing enough clean, renewable energy to power over 2 million homes each day.

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  • These women are defying tradition—by flying

    Jordan Salama

    October 14, 2022 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

    Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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  • Could an ADU revolution be underway in the Capital Region?

    Jeff Wilser

    October 13, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Accessory dwelling units are small homes in homeowners driveways and yards that can be rented out and might help address California’s housing crisis.

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  • How to restore PH's lost mangrove forest? An Iloilo town shows the way

    Arnel Murga

    October 12, 2022 |

    Rappler |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Iloilo

    Leganes Integrated Katunggan Ecopark in the Philippines is a mangrove rehabilitation project in which volunteers planted over 1,700 seedlings to restore a 200-meter greenbelt.

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  • A Jordanian Collective Works Toward Food Sovereignty Through Urban Farming

    Shefa'a Qudah

    October 11, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Jordan, Amman

    The Al Barakeh Wheat Project is working to regain food sovereignty through urban wheat farming in Amman, Jordan, by partnering farmers with families to teach them how to grow and harvest wheat.

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  • Advancing Girl Child Education in Oyo Community

    Adeyemi Okediran

    October 10, 2022 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    The Wonderland Gifted Girls Academy provides free education to girls in Oyo State, Nigeria, to increase educational opportunities for girls and give them a foundation to build their future on.

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  • How This NGO Helps Innocent Inmates Regain Freedom

    Busola Aro

    October 10, 2022 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ikeja, Lagos State

    The nonprofit Hope Behind Bars provides legal services for free for those who are arbitrarily detained to help them get justice. The organization does their own investigation and represents inmates in court.

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