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  • A Campus Community Is Empowering Students With Sustainable Blockchain Skills

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    Blockchain UNN is a student organization and campus tech community that focuses on educating the next generation of blockchain leaders. Through both physical and online training and tutoring, the group teaches students valuable tech skills like web development, crypto trading and financial market analysis for free. Since forming in 2021, the organization has trained more than 3,000 students, helping them to secure good jobs in the tech sector.

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  • In Baltic Sea, citizen divers restore seagrass to fight climate change

    July 26, 2023 |

    Reuters |

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    Response Location: Germany, Kiel

    The SeaStore Seagrass Restoration Project in Kiel, Germany, is teaching locals to harvest and replant the underwater grasses. The project is restoring areas these plants used to inhabit because they store large amounts of carbon.

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  • Out of The Jungle

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Breakthrough Institute |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Having already eliminated the worst parts of slaughterhouse work by not using meat, the plant-based “chicken” company Rebellyous HQ is designing an autonomous system that will ease the physical demands of making its food. Developed with feedback from employees, the new machine will do the heavy lifting and repetitive scooping of ingredients for them.

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  • Pushed to action (II) : To prevent diseases, these communities unite to provide clean water

    July 26, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Akakwu, Enugu State

    As a result of locals writing to their political representatives, the Nigerian government began a borehole intervention project to provide more than 2,000 residents with clean, easily accessible water. The project also provided a generator to address the village’s lack of power supply and residents pay N20 ($0.02) to access the borehole, which covers the cost of running the generator.

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  • Portland drag performers raise funds at ‘Drag the House Up!'

    July 26, 2023 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Groups like Portland: Neighbors Welcome and Black & Beyond the Binary Collective aims to provide safe, affordable housing to people in crisis — specifically members of the LGBTQ+ community. The group partners with other local organizations to raise funds through donations and events like drag shows to help address extreme rates of homelessness and housing discrimination within the LGBTQ+ community. These groups have helped more than 200 people access housing in the past four years and are continuing to acquire funds to expand their services.

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  • Nursing oil palm plantations back to nature in Malaysian Borneo

    July 26, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Malaysia

    In October 2020, the Rhino and Forest Fund in Malaysian Borneo began to buy land once cleared for oil palm plantations, and reforests and rehabilitates the tracts into wildlife corridors. After replanting 40 tree species in the last 3 years, an increase in several threatened species has been documented traveling through the project sites.

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  • A non-profit is trying to save manatees by restoring seagrass

    July 25, 2023 |

    WMNF Community Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Florida

    The Ecosphere Restoration Institute received $5 million from the Florida State Legislature to restore the declining seagrasses on 100 acres of the coast. The organization partnered with experts who have permits to harvest the seeds, grow them in a nursery, and replant them in shallow areas. The project will also help prevent manatee deaths, as the animal depends on seagrass as a food source.

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  • Rebuilding Health in Yobe State through PHC Rehabilitation and Social Equity Initiatives

    July 24, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Yobe

    To address gaps in healthcare access, the local government partnered with organizations like Plan International, German Cooperation and the World Bank’s Saving One Million Lives Project to build, refurbish and equip primary healthcare centers across the state to provide better care. As of May 2023, 138 centers have been built or upgraded, offering maternity care services, child healthcare, vaccinations and family planning among other services.

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  • How NYC's Harbor School is trying to reduce summer school stigma

    July 24, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat New York |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governors Island offers a summer school program that provides a low-pressure environment for students to complete coursework they may struggle with during the traditional school year. Students benefit from flexible scheduling that allows many to work part-time, as well as more individualized academic attention thanks to lower student-teacher ratios.

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  • How tax credits and social finance are building a healthy future for Nova Scotians

    July 24, 2023 |

    Future of Good |

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    Response Location: Canada, Nova Scotia

    Novia Scotia, Canada, created community economic development investment funds with a 35% tax credit to investors to help small businesses that need capital but don’t qualify for bank loans. The cooperative FarmWorks brings together investors and farmers using this funding method to provide loans that will directly support the local food network.

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