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  • Youth Voter Turnout Is Already Ridiculously High In Colorado. State House Democrats Want It Even Higher

    April 24, 2019 |

    Colorado Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    In 2013, Colorado lawmakers passed a comprehensive voting reform bill which put a mail-in ballot in every voter's mailbox and allowed for same-day voter registration. Many credit the bill for boosting youth voting 13 percent in the past year, putting Colorado second behind Minnesota for highest youth voting turnout.

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  • 'It's a groundswell': the farmers fighting to save the Earth's soil

    April 24, 2019 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    Governments, UN officials, and climate experts alike are ringing the alarm bells of growing soil degradation around the world. But a new agricultural movement is tackling this challenge head on. Instead of the centuries-old method of ploughing, or turning up the soil, farmers have recently taken to keeping their fields covered with varied plants year round, to keep soil healthier. Advocates also point to lower costs on machinery and labor, more resilient crops, and climate change dividends as added benefits as well.

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  • Black birth workers help moms struggling when — and after — the baby is born

    April 24, 2019 |

    WHYY |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    To better serve women of color during pregnancies and childbirth, women in Philadelphia have started offering workshops to teach about and advocate for increased understanding around the birthing experience. With statistics indicating that black women are more likely to experience complications during their pregnancies, these workshops address in a gap in care for "black women’s desires for alternative, and better, birth and postpartum experiences."

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  • Can You Save a Dying Italian Town with the Art of Storytelling?

    April 23, 2019 |

    Literary Hub |

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    Response Location: Italy, Rosarno

    A group of locals in Rosarno, Italy - a town known for its organized crime and racism - reclaimed the perception of their home by creating a comprehensive tourism guide for the city. The guide creation helped to stimulate local passion projects, including renovation of local community hubs that now allow people to gather and collaborate rather than focus on differences within the community.

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  • Across the U.S., flood survivors are growing in number — and they aren't just seeking restitution, but answers

    April 23, 2019 |

    Ensia |

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    Response Location: United States, De Soto, Missouri

    Connecting residents affected by flooding to networks of expertise turns victims into activists. In De Soto, Missouri, the Citizen’s Committee for Flood Relief found support from Higher Ground, a nonprofit organization that connects flood survivors to scientists and other experts. The organizations that cooperate with Higher Ground work to find solutions to repeated flooding—whether political or ecological—and also call for equitable distribution of disaster recovery resources.

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  • Beyond Surgery: Gesse Centre's innovative approach to fistula care in Kebbi

    April 23, 2019 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Birnin, Kebbi

    Fistula repair surgery has become routine in the state of Kebbi in Nigeria thanks to the implementation of a health center that has made treatment easier for women to access. The center aims to address both medical and societal causes, by addressing underlying issues and patient-centered health practices.

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  • What Can the U.S. Health System Learn From Singapore?

    April 22, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Singapore

    In Singapore, government officials have taken the opportunity to learn from gaps and failures in their health care system in order to enact a more progressive, proactive and accessible process. From subsidizing housing to implementing healthier school lunches to combat diabetes, the country's health care system is often held as an example to model.

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  • Community buy-in stamps out elephant poaching in Zambian park

    April 22, 2019 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Zambia, Luangwa Valley

    In the North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, a conservation team worked with local communities to bring the rate of elephant poaching in the area down to zero in 2018. Poaching had surged in the Luangwa Valley in 2014, and since then the group has protected the elephants by placing the decision-making and benefit-reaping in the hands of the community members. They use financial incentives to stir the economy without depending on poaching money, work with the government to revise policies that redirect any income for the area to benefit the residents, and they patrol the park for any poachers.

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  • This mobile cinema is helping women in Pakistan learn their rights

    April 19, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    The Academy Award-winning documentary "A Girl in the River: The Price of Freedom" is being toured around small towns and villages in Pakistan, the country that the documentary is set in. The movie is about honor killings, but the director has since started hosting viewings of other movies about topics that discuss changes in the law and how women can advocate for themselves. The mobile cinema has since led to the closing of a "forgiveness" loophole in the law that allowed men to get away with the murders, and its model is now spreading to Bangladesh and Syria.

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  • A Nazi flag led this Western Mayberry to confront hate once again. Now Fruita aims to send a different message.

    April 18, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Fruita, Colorado

    A small city in Colorado turned an act of bigotry — someone publicly flying a Nazi flag — into an opportunity for growth for the city. Fruita considers itself a welcoming, inclusive community, so they seized upon this opportunity to pass an Inclusivity Proclamation. The proclamation affirms their commitment to defeating prejudice and also added inclusivity as a part of their next city planning strategy.

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