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Doctor missionaries and long tale of leprosy in Nigeria

Peace Oladipo

May 30, 2024 |

Prime Progress |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

The leprosarium, run by the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), provides free treatment, shelter, and support to those ostracized due to their leprosy diagnosis. Since forming, ECWA has helped 1,000 patients overcome the disease.

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Kenyan nurse leads crusade to fight medical negligence after repeated misdiagnoses

Emiene Erameh

May 30, 2024 |

365Daily |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya

The Nguvu Collective advocates for patients’ rights and the establishment of committees that help educate and protect patients in healthcare settings to prevent misdiagnosis and malpractice. Since 2022, the campaign has reached over 8,000 people, advocated for protections from the local government, published materials to spread patients’ rights education to underserved communities and taught healthcare workers how to be more mindful when providing care.

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How 'Farmfluencers' Are Making Vietnam's Rice Fields More Sustainable

MaryLou Costa

May 30, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Vietnam

The Viet Nam Farmers Union rolled out a train-the-trainer program focused on encouraging rice farmers in Vietnam to take up more sustainable practices. This style of training helps farmers overcome any hesitation towards trying new methods by allowing them to learn from their peers and see the success of demonstration plots.

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'We're giving everybody the opportunity to have the prom experience'

Gabrielle Feliciano

May 30, 2024 |

The Daily Evergreen |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Pullman, Washington

After organizers at Alternatives to Violence of the Palouse heard that local high school students were in need of prom essentials, the organization started a prom pop-up shop. Students can pick out dresses, suits, shoes, jewelry, and handbags for free. All of the stocked items are brand new or barely used donations from the community.

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Revolution in the Soil: How One School is Responding to Food Insecurity

Latasha Rouseau

May 29, 2024 |

Sapelo Square |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A community garden is part of the curriculum at the Mohammed Schools of Atlanta to teach students how to grow their own food. Amid a food desert, the garden provides fresh food for the school cafeteria and produces enough that students can take crops home to their families each week.

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Community solar developers look to artificial intelligence to help manage subscribers and advance equity

Kari Lydersen

May 29, 2024 |

Energy News Network |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States

Artificial intelligence tools are helping the solar energy company Solstice better serve community solar subscribers and make projects more inclusive for low-income households. The tools use data to predict when subscribers might be facing problems that will likely lead to them leaving the project, such as delays or billing confusion, and vet subscribers based on whether they are likely to pay their bills instead of using their credit scores.

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Ideas We Should Steal: Free Childcare for Women's Health

Courtney Duchene

May 29, 2024 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New Mexico

New Mexico’s Early Childhood Education and Care Fund provides free childcare for families who earn up to 400% of the federal poverty level and serves about 18,423 children a month. Access to free childcare has also impacted parent’s health, particularly mothers, as they’re often the ones taking time away from themselves and their jobs to handle the majority of childcare tasks.

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A post-mortem on Oregon's drug decriminalization efforts

Paige Sutherland Meghna Chakrabarti

May 29, 2024 |

WBUR |

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Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Oregon

While the decriminalization effort Measure 110 failed to fully meet the mark, the Health Justice Recovery Alliance joined forces with local law enforcement to create a pilot program that helped locals struggling with addiction. Through the program, police can contact an outreach worker who will come to the scene and connect the person struggling with addiction to support services such as detox care and housing, helping lead them toward long-term recovery. So far, the pilot program has helped over 200 people.

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Just coffee in an unjust world

Amy Frykholm

May 29, 2024 |

The Christian Century |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Agua Prieta, Sonora

Café Justo offers an alternative model to traditional fair-trade operations, keeping the entire means of coffee production in the farmers’ hands. They connect the farmer directly to the consumer, eliminating the need for people in the middle who would often gather up the profits. In Salvador Urbina, the Café Justo cooperative has about 80 farming families and sends out more than 1,000 pounds of coffee a month.

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Restaurants Create a Mound of Plastic Waste. Some Are Working to Fix That.

Meg Wilcox

May 28, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

Recirclable provides reusable takeout boxes that customers can return to a participating restaurant within two weeks to avoid being charged a fee, which allows restaurants to cut down on disposable containers that harm the environment. So far Recirclable is working with 14 restaurants and has had thousands of customers select the reusable option, but the effort is difficult to scale up because reuse requires more effort on the part of the consumer and there’s not yet sufficient infrastructure to streamline the process.

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