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  • In Sri Lanka, 'the Ocean Is For Everyone'

    May 02, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Weligama

    SeaSisters offers free swim and surf lessons to local women and girls, challenging social norms and fear that traditionally keep them from enjoying the ocean. The group has since trained 150 participants, helping them overcome their fears and find a newfound sense of freedom.

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  • Robot chef revolutionizes hospital catering

    May 02, 2025 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Germany

    An AI-powered robot chef created by the startup goodBytz can prepare up to eight dishes at once and up to 3,000 meals a day, virtually 24/7, ensuring hospital workers, patients and their families always have access to freshly cooked food.

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  • “An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years

    May 02, 2025 |

    Bolts |

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    Response Location: Australia

    Since 1924, Australia has had compulsory voting, which requires citizens to cast a ballot or face a small fine. The policy has created a strong culture around voting, and voter turnout has remained high since the law went into effect.

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  • The Quiet Engine for Affordable Housing in Red and Blue States

    May 01, 2025 |

    Next City |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) like BlueHub Loan Fund are stepping up to help create and preserve affordable housing. BlueHub Loan Fund recently financed a project in Nashville that converted two abandoned motels into affordable studio apartments, when larger banks wouldn’t finance the project.

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  • With ‘Green Islam,' climate action is a religious duty – and an act of community

    May 01, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

    Green Islam is an Indonesian grassroots movement combining Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship with community-driven actions such as eco-boarding schools, green-certified mosques, and interfaith dialogues to address climate change and ecological crises.

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  • How Pakistan pulled off one of the fastest solar revolutions in the world

    May 01, 2025 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Pakistan

    Faced with severe heat waves, escalating electricity costs and frequent blackouts, Pakistan took a grassroots approach to transitioning to solar power, making electricity more accessible and affordable. They’ve become a major market for solar, importing 17 gigawatts of solar panels from China in 2024 alone, doubling their 2023 numbers, making Pakistan the world’s third-biggest importer of solar panels.

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  • Swipe To Survive: How Digital Payments Tackle Youth Unemployment In Nigeria

    April 30, 2025 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benin City, Edo

    Nigeria's digital payment ecosystem, particularly Point of Sale (POS) operations, has emerged as an entrepreneurial solution to help young people find sustainable employment and income to support themselves and their families. With the POS systems, people can establish small hubs for cash withdrawals, bill payments and other financial services. With the help of these new ventures, youth unemployment has dropped from 53.4% to 6.5% over a four-year period.

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  • How this Limpopo NGO prepared itself for Trump funding cuts

    April 29, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Limpopo

    After sudden U.S. government funding cuts jeopardized South Africa's HIV programs, Limpopo's Hlokomela Clinic quickly reorganized around existing resources, training community health workers to identify and encourage farm workers to visit still-operational clinic sites for HIV testing. By leveraging volunteers, they partially offset the impact of losing their dedicated HIV testing outreach team and program funding.

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  • Hospital care at home, for kids

    April 28, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Atrium Health’s pediatric hospital-at-home program allows patients to recover from the comfort of their own homes, rather than a hospital bed, combining visits from paramedics and virtual check-ins with doctors and nurses to provide continuous hospital-like care. 142 health systems in 39 states have been approved to provide home-hospital care, and some studies show patients receiving care at home have better health outcomes than those in hospitals.

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  • De la exclusión al empleo: la formación digital que transforma vidas

    April 28, 2025 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    Potrero Digital es una iniciativa argentina que ofrece formación tecnológica gratuita e integral a jóvenes vulnerables, logrando que más del 60% acceda a empleos formales en la economía digital y mejore significativamente sus habilidades socioemocionales y autoestima.

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