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  • Oasis in the Desert: Walker River Paiute Tribe Builds Food Pantry

    August 03, 2022 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Schurz, Nevada

    In response to the COVID-19 pandemic making access to groceries more difficult, The Walker River Paiute Tribe created a food pantry to support members of the tribe and local farmers. The food pantry has since become the largest in the state, by volume of distributed food, having distributed about 6,500 bags of food to over 355 households.

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  • Vaccinated at the Ball: A True Story About Trusted Messengers

    June 15, 2022 |

    Word In Black |

    Illustrations |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Members of a local Black, LGBTQ+ community joined together with Chicago's COVID Rapid Response team to bring COVID-19 vaccinations to the city's Black and Latino LGBTQ+ population — a group that is severely lagging behind the general population in terms of vaccination rates.

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  • Medication and Recovery: Doctors Say Access to Critical Addiction Care is Difficult in Appalachia

    October 21, 2021 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wise, Virginia

    The Health Wagon provides medical care to those experiencing addiction. The Health Wagon also provides services for those in recovery, including medications, counseling, and peer support groups in an effort to reduce relapses and overdose deaths which have skyrocketed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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  • Despite COVID and conflict, Kashmiris keep food coming

    September 12, 2021 |

    Missoulian |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Kashmir

    Community networks acted to keep people in Kashmir fed throughout COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns. The Bonamsar mosque provides donation-funded monthly meal kits and small cash payments to people in need, including cooked food for those in immediate need. Tiffin Aaw provided meals to residents during political turmoil and shifted to serving warm meals to COVID-19 patients and their medical and family caregivers that couldn’t afford food. Both services included the culturally traditional food that has led the region to have the country’s highest nutritional health.

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  • 20 million Americans still don't have enough to eat. A grass-roots movement of free fridges aims to help

    June 28, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The pandemic economy has left more people without money for quality food, a need addressed in some communities by "freedges" – community-run refrigerators dispensing free food. The food gets donated by groceries, restaurants, and individuals. Volunteers maintain the fridges, which typically are placed outdoors on a sidewalk. This form of "mutual aid" has grown in popularity nationwide, despite food-safety concerns by city health officials.

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  • Video 150 organizaciones migrantes

    June 24, 2021 |

    Conexión Migrante |

    Video |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York

    El video relata la experiencia de algunas de las organizaciones migrantes que trabajaron activamente durante el 2020 y 2021 en atender las necesidades primordiales de la comunidad mexicana en Nueva York durante la Pandemia por COVID-19.

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  • Migración, pandemia y resistencia en NY

    June 24, 2021 |

    Conexión Migrante |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, New York

    Cientos de familias de migrantes mexicanos en Nueva York, como la encabezada por Ángel y René Gordillo, perdieron a alguno de sus integrantes durante la pandemia. Atravesaron los primeros meses sin apoyo médico o financiero, y fueron otros migrantes los que atendieron sus necesidades básicas. Hoy, son sus hijos quienes enarbolan su lucha y pelean por sus derechos.

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  • Redes migrantes en la pandemia

    June 24, 2021 |

    Conexión Migrante |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Mexico

    Organizaciones no gubernamentales, organizaciones religiosas y grupos de voluntarios, en su mayoría dirigidos por migrantes, implementaron acciones para proveer a las familias de migrantes en Nueva York de recursos básicos durante la Pandemia por COVID-19. Los beneficiarios fueron en especial los migrantes indocumentados que no lograron apoyo gubernamental de tanto Estados Unidos como de México

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  • India's healthcare workers are busting misinformation on WhatsApp

    June 17, 2021 |

    The Verge |

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    Response Location: India

    Accredited social health activists (ASHA) across India fight COVID-19 related misinformation on WhatsApp. ASHAs provide basic health care to people in their villages, which puts them on the frontline of treating COVID-19 patients and educating people to dispel the many myths about the virus and its treatments. ASHAs' local interactions often identify prevailing myths, which they quickly dispel in their face-to-face exchanges and by posting in the many local WhatsApp groups that have been created. The local groups have been an effective mode of educating people and helped ASHAs gain villagers’ trust.

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  • What Robots Can—and Can't—Do for the Old and Lonely

    May 24, 2021 |

    The New Yorker |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Joy For All Companion provides lifelike robot pets to lonely seniors. These robotic pets provide much-needed company to a group of people most at risk of being impacted by the loneliness epidemic that was exacerbated by COVID-19.

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