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  • Social Entrepreneur Peru: Albina Ruiz and the Ciudad Saludable

    September 02, 2008 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Peru, Pucallpa

    Albina Ruiz, founder of the social enterprise Ciudad Saludable, works with people living in areas dominated by the trash dump to create a more formal system of waste removal for their health and the wider city's cleanliness. Workers who collect and recycle the waste are now employed by the city, own a micro-business, and no longer work under a social stigma. At the same time their efforts to clean up the city are working well, and the model is spreading to other Peruvian cities.

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  • Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

    June 14, 2004 |

    SFGate |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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