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  • Pakistan Tries a New Way to Pay for a Dam: Crowdsourcing

    October 25, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Pakistan

    Under financial strain, Pakistan is asking its citizens and Pakistanis abroad to donate money to build two dams. Only $48 million of the estimated cost of $14 billion has been raised so far, yet the country’s new prime minister Imran Khan is optimistic. “We can build dams in five years if the donations continue,” he said.

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  • Meet The Woman Who's Transforming How Kenya Sees Disability

    October 25, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Nairobi

    After volunteering for the special olympics, Maria Omare decided children with disabilities in Kenya needed a space where they would be treated with dignity, care, and respect. So she rented a one-room space, and called it the The Action Foundation, a grassroots organization that provides social inclusion and education for children with disabilities. Eight years later, the organization has ballooned, “since 2012, the foundation has helped almost 240 children with various needs, large and small.”

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  • Neighbors create a solution for families who need diapers in Washington Heights and beyond

    October 25, 2018 |

    Second Wave Michigan |

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    Response Location: United States, Battle Creek, Michigan

    A neighborhood dentist asked his underserved community what he could do to improve their lives. The answer? Diapers. Now, his Battle Creek, MI organization delivers diapers to families in need around county, regardless of recipients' economic or social status.

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  • One country's plan to solve the world's hidden health crisis

    October 25, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Nepal

    Health providers are well-positioned to identify and help those who have experienced domestic violence. Nepal is one of several countries training medical workers to identify abused patients and refer them to in-hospital crisis support services.

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  • Kids in the Classroom Can Help Single Moms Rise from Poverty

    October 25, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    One quarter of undergraduates attending American higher education institutions are parents; however, the number of campuses with childcare facilities has continued to decrease. Individual professors are incorporating new policies into their syllabi that allow kids to sit in on class when other arrangements fall through and mothers to leave class to breastfeed. "Letting kids in class is a welcoming gesture that can set the stage for or accompany the more systemic and substantive supports that student parents need for success," says the Institute of Women's Policy Research's executive director.

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  • How Sex Workers Made San Francisco Safer for Everyone

    October 25, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    In San Francisco, a law that offers amnesty to sex workers who report violent crimes to police is designed to save lives and reduce crime overall in the city. It comes as the city’s police department faces a massive police sex scandal over officers abusing an underaged sex worker, something advocates say is all too common and leaves crimes women might report uninvestigated. Advocates applaud the new law, say it doesn’t go far enough and they worry new federal laws could undermine it.

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  • Dancing through Gunshots in Brazil's Favelas

    October 25, 2018 |

    Vice |

    Documentary |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

    The ballet program “Na Ponta dos Pes” (On Tiptoes) uses the teaching of ballet to girls ages 4-15 to inspire hope among the youth living in one of Rio de Janeiro's most violent favelas. Tuany Nascimento is not trying to turn all the girls into professional ballerinas, as she once was. Instead, she uses the discipline of dance lessons to show girls their lives can transcend their surroundings. Says one of the girls who attests to the power of the lessons, "They think we're only girls from a favela. Being poor, being black, being a woman ... We are people looking for hope."

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  • The Inside Story of How India Eliminated Polio

    October 24, 2018 |

    UN Dispatch |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: India, Utter Pradesh

    India was declared polio-free in 2014 after several years of work by health staff who traveled across the country to distribute the vaccine. One key part of the strategy included efforts by the government to recruit and mobilize volunteers from across the country to assist health care workers in locating the children who needed the vaccine and building trust with their caregivers.

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  • Fossil Refusal: Local Models Not Global Markets

    October 24, 2018 |

    Making Contact |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Alameda, California

    Climate change will impact everyone, but not necessarily equally, so organizations across the US are advocating for smaller-scale and locally owned and produced energy resources in order to better distribute these resources. Two of these communitiy-controlled energy models include Community Choice Aggregation, which provide different levels of green energy, and hyperlocal approaches that promote micro-grids.

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  • Community building: Chicago experiment links libraries and apartments

    October 24, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When a need for more libraries and more affordable housing arose in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel pursued a plan to combine the two. The result is a partnership between the Chicago Housing Authority and the Chicago Public Library system. Despite some concern among neighborhood residents, the solution is largely seen as a creative approach as well as a creative use of funding and land space. Mixed-use developments are becoming more popular around the world, and this next iteration will benefit many types of Chicago residents.

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