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  • What Greek Festival Dancers Can Teach Faith Communities

    September 09, 2022 |

    Interfaith America |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral's folk dancing program and Greek Festival involve more than 450 dancers and roughly 500 volunteers. Faith leaders credit the festival with helping to build a sense of community that has kept engagement steady while other faith groups have seen a drop in participation.

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  • How a Methodist Preacher Became a Champion for Black-Led Sustainable Agriculture

    September 09, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Allensworth, California

    The TAC Farm is a Black-owned and operated farm working to boost the local economy. TAC Farm also uses organic, climate-friendly farming processes, like enriching the soil with compost and installing windbreaks to protect crops.

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  • The British Schools Reinventing Themselves as Refugee Sanctuaries

    September 05, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    The Schools of Sanctuary program aims to provide welcoming, inclusive learning environments for those seeking refuge, teach students about migrants and refugees and engage with the local community. As even more people are seeking asylum, there are currently about 300 local schools signed up to go through the process of becoming an official School of Sanctuary.

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  • Traditional climate-smart agriculture system ‘Barahnaja' saves the day for Uttarakhand farmers

    August 30, 2022 |

    101 Reporters |

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    Response Location: India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand

    The traditional Barahnaja system of cultivation helps protect farmers’ crops from erratic weather conditions and crop failure and guarantees access to multiple food options and nutrition even during unprecedented conditions. The system helps crop diversification, ensures maximal use of land, nutrients and water and allows farmers to achieve year-round self-sustainability without commercial interest.

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  • Healthy mangroves build a resilient community in the Philippines' Palawan

    August 29, 2022 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Palawan

    The Philippines’ National Greening Program combined with ongoing outreach initiatives, partnerships with local communities, and Indigenous cultural practices that emphasized the importance of preserving mangroves helped the area’s coastal forests and fisheries start to recover after decades of deforestation.

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  • ‘It starts with us': Roanoke organizations teaming up to combat Black maternal mortality crisis

    August 24, 2022 |

    WSLS-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Roanoke, Virginia

    Birth in Color, in partnership with Birth Equity Action & Research to Transform Health (BEARTH) Village, is working to address the Black maternal mortality crisis. The community-based organizations use research and cultural wisdom to dismantle inequities Black women face during birth. The groups provide free doula care to provide care and advocate for women in healthcare settings. There are currently 80 available doulas who help about 350 women give birth each year.

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  • Trying To Heal The Wounds Of Partition, 75 Years Later

    August 18, 2022 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Pakistan

    A virtual reality project uses 3-D videos to transport elderly survivors of the forced Partition of India and Pakistan to the ancestral homes they haven't seen in over 75 years. Since most survivors are unable to get a visa to return to their original homes, the immersive experience provides an opportunity to intimately experience footage of their villages and hear messages from current residents.

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  • Kenyan youth help climate-hit communities prepare for disaster

    August 08, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    A group of young volunteers translate disaster alert bulletins issued by the government drought agency into local languages and then share the alerts by word of mouth and over the radio so that people living in rural areas can take action, particularly receive nutrition aid for their children.

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  • ‘Better for democracy': Two US cities offer Arabic voting ballots

    August 03, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    Municipal officials in two southeast Michigan communities exercised their local governing power to bypass federal voting legislation that does not include Arab Americans among the "disenfranchised communities" with a right to receive election ballots in their first language. Through a city council resolution and collaboration among county officials, the Michigan Secretary of State, and Dominion Voting Systems, the cities offered Arabic ballots for the 2022 state primary, which is thought to be the first example of Arabic-language ballots being offered in a state-organized election in the United States.

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  • How religious worship is boosting conservation in India

    July 26, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: India

    Sacred groves in India protected by religious practices, culture, and communities are helping country-wide conservation efforts for greenery and endangered species.

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