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  • Child poverty in the US was stagnant — and then something changed

    September 14, 2022 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: United States

    The economic impact payments and expanded child tax credits given to American households during the COVID-19 Pandemic helped reduce rates of child poverty and food insecurity.

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  • How some low-income buyers can afford a home in pricey Seattle

    September 12, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, Homestead Community Land Trust and Habitat for Humanity Seattle-King County help low-income residents buy homes using a community land trust model. Residents who make under 80% of the local median income can purchase a home at a rate far below the median home price in the city from a set portfolio of homes.

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  • A single injection can help heal PTSD in Louisiana veterans: It's not a miracle cure, but close

    September 11, 2022 |

    The Times-Picayune |

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    Response Location: United States, Louisiana

    To help address suicides as well as the painful symptoms of PTSD among veterans, Andrew Ward, a veteran himself founded Acadiana Veterans Alliance. His organization works with a team of medical professionals and the Stella Center to make a treatment procedure for stellate ganglion block, or SGB, as well as therapy accessible to veterans. Since the initiation of the program in 2020, they've seen a success rate of 75 percent in treating PTSD.

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  • How an initiative is providing water to remote communities in northern Nigeria

    September 10, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Water the Needy Foundation uses donations and sponsors to provide rural, remote communities in Nigeria access to drinking water by building wells and boreholes.

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  • Antimicrobial resistance: Patient led contact tracing helping Ugandan medics to fight drug resistant TB

    September 10, 2022 |

    West Nile Today News |

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    Since 2017, the Defeat TB (tuberculosis) program supported by USAID introduced a patient contact tracing program in Uganda wherein health workers and facilitators have been trained to trace a patient with multidrug-resistant TB back to their community to screen family members, conduct tests, and refer them for Xrays or treatment if needed. Introduced in the Mulago referral hospital, the program has since expanded to 16 other centers. Along with counseling, follow-ups, and provision of food assistance, it has helped increase the TB detection and treatment rate over the years.

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  • This German village managed to go off grid and become energy self-sufficient

    September 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Germany, Feldheim, Brandenburg

    Feldheim, Germany, built an entirely self-sufficient, decentralized energy grid with funding from residents, the European Union, and the state. They produce their energy with wind turbines, a solar farm, and agricultural waste.

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  • Making women dry; here's how a foundation is reducing Nigeria's fistula burden

    September 09, 2022 |

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    Fistula Foundation Nigeria helps women with obstetric fistula get free treatment and get back to daily life. The organization also works to prevent obstetric fistula through public education and training doctors.

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  • What It's Like To Make A Film Almost Entirely In Prison

    September 07, 2022 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

    Inmates taking a credit-bearing film course through Miami Dade College created a short film while inside Everglades Correctional Institution in Florida. The program helps incarcerated students get credits towards degrees and gain skills they could use for employment when they leave.

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  • At Fly Compton, the sky's not a limit. Neither is race.

    September 07, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Compton, California

    The nonprofit Fly Compton Aeronautical Education Foundation provides affordable flying lessons for marginalized youth to help them get careers in the aviation industry.

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  • For Nigerians hoping to study abroad, there are many hurdles to scale

    September 05, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The i-Scholar Initiative is one of a growing number of individual and organizational efforts to support Nigerian students looking to study abroad. The initiative helps fund the cost of international graduate examinations, provides scholarships to fund their education, and connects students to peer mentors who can guide them through the application and admission process.

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