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This support group for Israeli expats in New York offers Hebrew and hugs

Jackie Hajdenberg

October 11, 2024 |

The Forward |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The Israeli Hug Center offers social support, group therapy, and robust programming for Israeli expats in New York City.

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Paving The Healing Road For Child Survivors Of Sexual Abuse

Adebola Adegoke

October 09, 2024 |

News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre Foundation provides comprehensive care, protection and legal assistance to youth who suffered sexual abuse or are at risk. So far, they’ve helped reach eight convictions and have about 57 ongoing cases. The Foundation also emphasizes the importance of psychotherapy and education, empowering youth to learn about personal safety, boundaries and age-appropriate sex education in an effort to prevent reoccurring abuse.

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The Muslim Sisters Aiding Widows Through Tough Times

Ashiat Meikudi

October 09, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

The Pious Muslim Women group helps widowed women navigate tough times with its various programs, such as providing access to food, monthly allowances, child care and other necessary resources. So far, the group has helped more than 3,500 women.

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Asheville area doctors work through challenges to serve patients: ‘Everybody is doing everything they can'

Andrew R. Jones

October 04, 2024 |

Asheville Watchdog |

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Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

Doctors are responding to Hurricane Helene's aftermath by reopening clinics and coordinating patient care through mobile clinics, remote appointments, and rescue efforts, ensuring vulnerable patients receive medical services, including surgeries and deliveries. Despite challenges like power outages and strained resources, healthcare workers are using a bootstrap approach and demonstrating their resilience, while also highlighting the need for stronger healthcare infrastructure in disaster-prone areas.

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How a North Carolina Farmer is Moving Toward a Sustainable Future

Dawn Attride

September 23, 2024 |

Sentient |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, North Carolina

Transformation, an initiative aiming to end factory farming, is helping chicken farmers who are in debt and looking to transition out of the industry convert their barns into greenhouses.

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Sweet watermelon turns sour amid climate change

Sadiqur Rahman

September 14, 2024 |

Bangladesh First |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Bangladesh

Farmers in Bangladesh are switching from shrimp aquaculture to growing rice and watermelon during different seasons to increase their incomes and have more consistent harvests as they deal with the impacts of climate change.

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Tilling the Floodplain: How Farmers Embrace the Power of Floods

Geetanjali Krishna

September 13, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh

Farmers in Uttar Pradesh, India, are using an age-old farming practice known as flood recession farming, which involves planting crops in floodplains when water recedes, to grow crops with less water during droughts.

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How the Zai farming technique is transforming soil fertility in North Cameroon

Leocadia Bongben

September 11, 2024 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Cameroon, Garoua

Farmers in Garoua, Cameroon, are repopularizing a traditional agricultural technique called Zai to restore the soil they’re growing on and combat human-caused desertification. To do so, they dig holes across their fields so compost, grain, and rainwater can sink into them and prevent erosion.

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The Urban Gardens Where Gender and Climate Justice Grow

Peter Yeung

September 11, 2024 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Ecuador, Quito

The city of Quito’s Participatory Urban Agriculture Program creates sustainable access to food by providing land and agricultural training, and it prioritizes empowering vulnerable populations, particularly women.

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Louisville groups offer therapy in unexpected places to make it more accessible to youth of color

Morgan Watkins

September 09, 2024 |

Louisville Public Media |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Louisville, Kentucky

Several Louisville organizations are addressing mental health care accessibility for youth of color by offering therapy in community spaces like barbershops, libraries, and other familiar environments. This approach aims to reduce stigma and has also made mental health care more accessible by eliminating barriers such as cost and location. Many youths who had participated in the therapy programs reported feeling more open to discussing their mental health.

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