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Safe haven or breeding ground for corruption: how Ukraine is building underground schools

Vladsylav Lesyk

July 21, 2025 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine

To safely get students back into in-person learning environments amid ongoing Russian attacks, the Ukrainian government has prioritized building underground schools, some of which are in repurposed metro stations while others are dedicated shelters attached to existing schools. So far, the country has completed 20 underground schools, with 221 more under construction, but concerns have also been raised about potential corruption among contractors.

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'It's everyone's business.' In Finland, national security is a shared responsibility.

Mark Sappenfield

July 18, 2025 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Finland

Finland’s approach to national security focuses on creating a comprehensive culture, emphasizing the idea that defending the country is a shared responsibility. Regular citizens can take volunteer courses in everything from using firearms and recognizing disinformation to surviving in the wild and interpreting maps, and the country’s men are conscripted at 18 for military or community service.

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Solar minigrid brings light and hope to a Goma neighborhood, offering blueprint for rest of Congo

Tammy Webber, Justin Kabumba, Moses Sawasawa

June 30, 2025 |

Associated Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Goma

With investor backing, the utility company Nuru built a 1.3-megawatt minigrid that, due to its interconnectivity with a hydropower grid, can power streetlight, phone, and internet services, plus a private company that pumps, treats and distributes water to the Congolese community of Goma. Residents report financial savings and greater feelings of safety.

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Pakistan's women fight to enter the labor force

Christian Pricelius, Sumaira Latif

June 25, 2025 |

Deutsche Welle (DW) |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Pakistan

CARE Schools are free, half-public, half-private institutions that provide lessons in both Urdu and English. The schools teach both boys and girls, sometimes in co-ed classes, to promote gender equality and provide girls with equal opportunities in their education and increase their job prospects.

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La dignidad cruzó muros: la historia de Keren y las mujeres que abrieron paso a la menstruación libre en la prisión de Tlaxcala

Paola Chavely Torres Nahuatlato

June 23, 2025 |

Escenario Tlaxcala |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Tlaxcala, Tlaxcala

En el Centro de Reinserción Social Femenil, un programa de intervención con muchas alianzas transformó la experiencia menstrual de mujeres privadas de la libertad: Voluntarias educadoras menstruales permitieron brindar conocimientos técnicos, perspectivas de género, y nuevos suministros para que las mujeres privadas de la libertad y las custodias que protegen su seguridad tuvieran mayor sensibilidad cuando se habla de gestión menstrual.

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Prison Reform Left Women Behind. Then Prosecutors Stepped In.

Issie Lapowsky

June 13, 2025 |

The New York Times |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Chowchilla, California

For the People identifies eligible cases for California’s resentencing law, conducts outreach to incarcerated women, reviews applications, and makes referrals to prosecutor resentencing units in participating counties in an effort to address the gender gap in resentencing cases. The program has helped resentence about 1,000 people, including three women, and is being implemented in five other states.

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For a Brooklyn Haitian nonprofit, new property signals strides in building collective wealth

Allison Hunter

May 27, 2025 |

Haitian Times |

Multi-Media |

Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Brooklyn, New York

The Haitian nonprofit Life of Hope had faced chronic rental instability for years before developing a financing strategy using federal funds, bridge loans, and private donations to finally secure permanent ownership of a facility. Since purchasing a warehouse to house the organization in June 2024, the organization has solidified itself as a permanent pillar in the local Haitian community, providing English classes, cultural programming, and other community services to more than 60,000 people, serving as a model for other Haitian nonprofits.

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Las voces que faltan

Diana Anzora, Lisbeth Ayala

May 21, 2025 |

Revista Elementos |

Podcast |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: El Salvador

Lideresas indígenas—desde sus comunidades: los pueblos Lenca, Kakawira y Nahua-Pipil—decidieron organizarse y crear el Observatorio Nacional Sijsihuat Mejmetzaly, donde están aprendiendo a levantar datos desde sus propias realidades. Juntos, por la primera vez, han comenzado a nombrar las múltiples violencias que atraviesan a las mujeres indígenas en El Salvador.

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Ditch Democracy: Northern New Mexico's Acequia Culture

Ilana Newman

May 14, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

An acequia irrigation system depends on an indigenous coordinated community governance designed to sustainably manage water for agriculture and daily life. Via democratic control, shared participation in annual cleaning, Mayordomo authority, and cooperative decision-making, the system fosters community cohesion and ecological sustainability.

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Police training is one step in how Waukesha County responds to mental health crises

Bridget Fogarty

May 14, 2025 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Waukesha County law enforcement departments are receiving Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training through the National Alliance on Mental Illness to teach them how to recognize and respond to people experiencing mental health crises by safely de-escalating the situations and connecting the people to resources and care, rather than jail and hospital stays. As of 2023, hundreds of officers in at least 19 counties have been CIT trained.

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