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  • Loaves of bread bring happiness 

    August 08, 2023 |

    Amjambo Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    The ADAMÂ Bakery trains and employs refugees in Uganda to make bread. This way they can earn a living while also feeding unaccompanied minors in the refugee settlements.

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  • To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to grow your own programs

    August 07, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Morgan City, Louisiana

    “Grow your own” programs, like Reach University’s, are working to address teacher shortages, particularly in rural areas, by recruiting school employees who don’t have college or education degrees and giving them a chance to earn an undergraduate degree in education at just $75 a month. Participants take courses online and take 15 hours out of their work week to spend time observing and training in classrooms. So far 84% of all parishes across the state have signed up to take Reach trainees, which could put a significant dent in the statewide teacher vacancy issue.

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  • A Campus Community Is Empowering Students With Sustainable Blockchain Skills

    July 26, 2023 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    Blockchain UNN is a student organization and campus tech community that focuses on educating the next generation of blockchain leaders. Through both physical and online training and tutoring, the group teaches students valuable tech skills like web development, crypto trading and financial market analysis for free. Since forming in 2021, the organization has trained more than 3,000 students, helping them to secure good jobs in the tech sector.

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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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  • The money wives in Cross River State

    June 30, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    The Basic Rights Counsel Initiative in Cross River State, Nigeria, teaches women who were forced into marriage and slavery as young girls the skills necessary to start their own businesses and support themselves and their children.

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  • Moved by Experience: PWD-led Initiative is Building Safe Space for Persons with Disabilities in Borno 

    June 28, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Maiduguri

    Via educational workshops, the provision of mobility devices, and entrepreneurial support, a Polio-survivor-led initiative in Nigeria is reducing stigmas about disabilities and helping eradicate polio diseases. Since 2017, the crowd-funded group has assisted more than 200 people with disabilities and reduced the number of folks who have to ask for alms on the streets.

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  • In the land of honey and nuts: Indigenous solutions to save Brazil's Cerrado

    June 27, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Mato Grosso

    The Resilient Cerrado Project funds Indigenous-community-led economic projects in Brazil’s Cerrado region. Projects like the Terena people’s beehive installation and beekeeper training help to protect the region’s biodiversity, cultural diversity, and improve community members’ welfare.

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  • Klean Kensington pays teens to clean and green their own blocks

    June 07, 2023 |

    Kensington Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Klean Kensington pays teenagers $15 an hour to clean lots in the Philadephia neighborhood and prevents them from turning to dealing drugs to make money.

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  • What Happens to Locals' Jobs When an Abandoned Coal Mine Becomes a Tourist Spot?

    June 04, 2023 |

    The Wire |

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    Response Location: India, Bishrampur, Chhattisgarh

    An abandoned, flooded mine in Bishrampur, India, is now an eco-tourism site where visitors can take a boat ride to a floating restaurant and locals breed fish. The new facilities offer employment for some of the residents who were left out of work when the mine closed.

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  • Chanja Datti – the Nigerian plastic waste pioneer

    June 02, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Chanja Datti, a social enterprise in Nigeria, turns recyclables into commercially viable products to sell for manufacturing, like pellets and bales. The company collects waste from various organizations and pays locals who collect trash and turn it in.

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