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  • Once cold, now too hot: Efforts to cut rising temperature in Nigeria's plateau intensifies

    July 04, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Obanliku, Cross River

    The nonprofit Africa Research Association Managing Development teaches communities in Obanliku, Nigeria, to run their own businesses in things like gardening, soap making, and marketing, and helps establish cocoa cooperatives to keep them from depending on deforestation for income. The program also requires communities to designate parts of the forest for conservation and trains members to protect those areas.

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  • In Vietnam, IKEA-style wind turbines are powering off-grid communities

    July 03, 2023 |

    Mekong Eye |

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    Response Location: Vietnam, Lai Chau

    An energy startup in Vietnam called 1516 delivers micro wind turbine systems to communities and schools that do not have access to power. The setup is simple enough that community members can do it themselves, making it an even more accessible option.

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  • Gwanda Women Revolutionise Diaper Disposal With Eco-Conscious Solution

    July 03, 2023 |

    The Citizen Bulletin |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe, Gwanda

    Local women have begun washing diapers and using the inner cotton material as stuffing to make reusable sanitary pads. This practice of cleaning and repurposing the materials from these diapers helps to prevent excess waste from disposable diapers, which has a significant impact on local waste management, long-term sustainability and environmental preservation.

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  • CRoWN Initiative: Enhancing Immunization Uptake for Zero-Dose Children in Bauchi State

    July 03, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Bauchi

    The Community Reorientation Women Network (CRoWN) initiative is working to increase immunization rates among children by leveraging trained community volunteers to identify zero-dose children and help connect them and their families with vaccination resources. Three months into the initiative’s pilot phase, CRoWN volunteers managed to reach 99% of identified zero-dose children, leading to increased vaccination rates among youth.

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  • Muckleshoot Tribal College makes history with doctoral graduates

    July 02, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Muckleshoot Cohort is an Indigenous-led doctoral program in educational leadership that is built around Indigenous culture and knowledge. The initiative, which encourages students to reclaim their Native identities and tackle generational trauma related to the colonized education system, graduated 10 students in its inaugural class.

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  • California Wage Theft: When bosses don't pay and new laws aren't enough.

    July 01, 2023 |

    CBS News |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Clara County, California

    To combat employer wage theft and chronic delays in payment remittance in state courts, Santa Clara County has leveraged businesses' food permits, threatening to revoke them if outstanding wage theft judgments are not paid. Run by the Santa Clara Office of Labor Enforcement, the program has resulted in 100% compliance.

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  • At Alaska's prison farm, a different way of serving time

    June 30, 2023 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Point Mackenzie Correctional Farm is a 640-acre farm, owned by the Alaska Department of Corrections, that operates as an alternative prison model. Select minimum-security inmates labor to keep the farm going throughout their sentence, producing tons of vegetable harvests (745,000 pounds of hay, nearly 5,000 pounds of tomatoes, 14,000 pounds of lettuce, 12,000 pounds of celery, 22,000 pounds of cabbage) and raising 150 cattle, 50 pigs and 300-400 chickens that produce 51,000 eggs—all of which is redistributed to other prisons and community food banks.

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  • Pedir perdón y reparar el daño, objetivo de la justicia restaurativa por delito económico

    June 30, 2023 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Instituciones Penitenciarias ha creado un programa de reinserción, que incorpora la justicia restaurativa para incidir en la responsabilización del delito y la reparación del perjuicio causado.

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  • The black market endangered this frog. Can the free market save it?

    June 30, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Colombia

    Ivan Lozano Ortega went from running a wildlife rescue center to breeding and selling critically endangered poison dart frogs, legally. He’s trying to stop poachers from taking the few frogs remaining in the wild in Colombia by making the species readily available to collectors.

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  • Texas eases process for voters to fix errors when they try to vote by mail

    June 30, 2023 |

    Votebeat Texas |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Following unfounded concerns around widespread voter fraud, Texas instituted new ID requirements for residents voting by mail. But the changes resulted in roughly 12,000 mail ballot applications and more than 24,000 mail ballots being rejected during a primary election, leading legislators to pass adjustments to the law for future elections.

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