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  • Make School Food Great Again

    March 26, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Red Rabbit provides nutritious, culturally diverse lunches to students at two local schools. The program promotes cross-cultural exchange among students by exposing them to different dishes from various cultures while ensuring they’re getting healthy meals that hit all the major food groups, as most students get the majority of their meals at school.

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  • Mediación para derribar las barreras lingüísticas y culturales en salud

    March 22, 2024 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Madrid

    Hasta la crisis migratoria ‘de los cayucos’ no existían mediadores interculturales en salud en España. En este marco surge el Servicio de Interpretación y Mediación Intercultural sociosanitaria de Salud Entre Culturas, uno de los pocos presenciales, integrado en un hospital. Su objetivo, junto con los teléfonos de interpretación idiomática, es echar abajo las barreras lingüísticas y socioculturales en la sanidad española.

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  • Oman's mountain oases offer ancient farming lessons for a warming future

    March 18, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Oman

    Ancient farming techniques are helping locals to preserve the environment and agroecology while still managing to sustainably grow food in the midst of climate change and other outside challenges. Moreover, the ancient farming practices are a major attraction for agritourism, helping bring money to local communities.

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  • ‘It's been such a gift for me.' Apps help schools and families overcome language barriers

    March 13, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The ReachWell app helps break down language barriers by allowing teachers to text in English and parents to receive messages in their own language. Translation apps like ReachWell allow parents to be more engaged in their child’s education. The app is currently used in several school districts and is also beginning to partner with emergency service agencies to provide alerts in other languages besides English.

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  • English learners stopped coming to class during the pandemic. One group is tackling the problem by helping their parents

    March 11, 2024 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    ourBRIDGE for Kids is a school-based program that helps English language learners improve their language skills. Since the pandemic increased rates of chronic absenteeism among English language learners, ourBridge shifted its focus to also provide family services to provide comprehensive support, like secure housing and grocery delivery, that helps keep youth in school.

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  • Enrollment in tribal language courses grows in Oklahoma as tribes aim to increase fluency

    March 11, 2024 |

    Oklahoma Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

    In an effort to increase language fluency and preserve the Indigenous culture, public schools in Oklahoma are offering Indigenous language programs to teach a variety of languages, like Cherokee and Choctaw, to interested students. In the 2022-2023 school year, 3,314 students from elementary through high school participated in an Indigenous language program.

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  • 'Happier families, happier students': How Denver's community hubs are helping migrants

    March 11, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver Public Schools’ Community Hubs provide wide-ranging support for students and their families, from language classes and GED programs for parents learning English to food pantries, financial education courses, and mobile medical appointments. The hubs have served more than 4,000 families since launching in 2022, with roughly 600 migrant families being served this year.

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  • Culture and conservation thrive as Great Lakes tribes bring back native wild rice

    March 04, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, United States

    Native tribes and First Nations in the Great Lakes Region are successfully reviving wild rice, a native crop that is deemed “extremely vulnerable” to climate change and lost much of its wetland habitat. The tribes’ restoration projects involve seeding lakebeds, monitoring water levels and quality, educating others on the importance of the crop, and harvesting it by hand.

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  • Underground seed banks hold promise for ecological restoration

    March 01, 2024 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    Indigenous peoples across the western United States are bringing back native plants that disappeared many years ago by practicing natural regeneration. By slowly bringing ecosystems that were disrupted by human activity back to their natural state over time, the seeds and roots preserved underground are given the chance to flourish.

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  • Emprendimientos migrantes claves para el desarrollo local

    February 26, 2024 |

    +Comunidad |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Gualeguaychú

    En Gualeguaychú existen varios emprendimientos gastronómicos que están ayudando a solucionar el desempleo y aportando al desarrollo sostenible local.

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