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  • How Bangladesh is supporting climate refugees

    December 07, 2023 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Young Power in Social Action helps families displaced by extreme weather, like hurricanes, by building weather-proof homes and helping those who lost their jobs find new work by providing them with goats or sewing machines to help them create a new livelihood. The group has already helped rehome eight families and plans to rehouse eight more families by April 2024.

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  • Productive Discomfort: A Job Training Program for Single Moms That Centers Mental Health | Death, Sex & Money | WNYC Studios

    December 06, 2023 |

    WNYC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Wyoming

    A job training program for single moms experiencing poverty, called Climb Wyoming, runs 14, 12-week training sessions per year. The program provides wraparound support for the moms alongside the skills training, including mental health support, life skills training, and help navigating the criminal justice system.

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  • A Climate Change Success Story? Look at Hoboken.

    November 03, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Hoboken, New Jersey

    After experiencing extreme flooding, Hoboken, New Jersey, has reduced its flood risk by rebuilding its sewers to add capacity and designing new infrastructure, like parks, to collect and redirect storm water.

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  • Will Speer Found Hope Enough to Share on Texas's Death Row

    October 23, 2023 |

    Texas Monthly |

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    Response Location: United States, Texas

    Twenty-eight death row inmates have gone through the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s Rehabilitation Programs Division’s Faith-Based Program. Over a year and a half, they take classes, participate in community discussions, and attend religious services that encourage a sense of purpose, help them find inner peace with God, and inspire them to make a difference in the prison.

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  • More Colorado students are sticking with higher education after COVID hardships

    October 20, 2023 |

    Chalkbeat Colorado |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    By offering mentorship opportunities, multicultural support, increased academic support, and more resources to address food and housing insecurity, colleges such as the University of Colorado Boulder and University of Northern Colorado have improved student retention rates, with 89 percent and 74.5 percent of freshmen, respectively, staying enrolled for their second year in 2023.

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  • Who Runs the Best U.S. Schools? It May Be the Defense Department.

    October 10, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Schools operated by the United States Department of Defense, which serve the children of military members, are well-funded compared to most public schools, share a centralized structure and curriculum, and have diverse, integrated student populations. Amid pandemic-era learning loss, these schools saw standardized test scores improve while scores in public school districts have for the most part declined.

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  • How to harvest water from clouds of fog

    October 06, 2023 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    As the drought in Kenya drags on, people are collecting water from the air by using plastic to funnel fog off of trees into buckets at night or a machine that pulls water from hot, moisture-filled air like a dehumidifier would.

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  • A gentle push gets adaptive athletes into Fort Collins running club and races

    October 06, 2023 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Fort Collins, Colorado

    The Fort Collins Run Club began hosting adaptive running nights, devoted to engaging runners who use wheelchairs, are blind, deaf or have some other kind of challenge that may have prevented them from joining social running clubs or participating in races. Adaptive running offers a sense of community for runners with disabilities and even helps break down barriers by providing blind runners aids to help guide them through races. Currently, The Fort Collins Run Club has 1,000 members.

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  • A car mechanic's invention to deliver babies is finally coming to market

    October 05, 2023 |

    Devex |

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    Response Location: Argentina

    OdonAssist is an inflatable device designed to help better perform assisted vaginal births (AVB). Several organizations, including the WHO, have been working to get the device on the market, especially in areas with high maternal and infant mortality rates. AVBs are proven to reduce risks during birth, like excessive bleeding, and clinical studies have shown that the OdonAssist device is both safe and effective in performing AVBs, as 88.5% of uses have been successful.

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  • How Guaranteed Income Is Helping Black Women Battle Gentrification

    October 05, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Georgia Resilience and Opportunity Fund’s In Her Hands initiative provides monthly stipends to Black women with no strings attached, to help them combat poverty. Payments average $850 dollars per month and recipients have full control over how it is spen.

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