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In ‘Food Deserts,' Oases of Nutrition

Tina Rosenberg

May 23, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Indonesia, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta

Asian cities are over-crowded and many residences are kitchenless, causing families with children to consume unhealthy food from the street vendors. Mercy Corps, a non-profit organization that advocates nutrition, has initiated some for-profit businesses in Jakarta that provide healthy food to underserved neighborhoods. The food carts are marketed at serving poor children a healthy meal.

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Villages Without Doctors

Tina Rosenberg

February 14, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: India, Halgaon, Maharashtra

Many health professionals choose to not live in poor, rural areas that lack access to healthcare. The Society for Education, Action, and Research in Community Health, and the Comprehensive Rural Health Project are training local women in rural parts of India to fill this gap. These women visit families in their community and offer services like education on breastfeeding to new mothers and vaccinations to children.

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The Hot Spotters

Atul Gawande

January 24, 2011 |

The New Yorker |

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Response Location: United States, Camden, New Jersey

Dr. Atul Gawande finds that the highest hospital debt bills are from chronically ill patients who only receive emergency room care instead of the primary care appointments they need. By targeting these hot spots, doctors are keeping people out of the hospital and saving money.

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The Street-Level Solution

David Bornstein

December 24, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a more granular, street-level view of the problem — disaggregating the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level.

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The Human Incubator

Tina Rosenberg

December 13, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

A shortage of incubators in a Bogota hospital was causing rampant infections among newborns. Kangaroo care, a system where the infant's mother is employed as a human incubator, was created and solved the shortage problem.

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Fighting Bullying With Babies

David Bornstein

November 08, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Canada, Toronto, Ontario

The Canadian federal government has identified bullying as a national problem. Roots of Empathy, based in Toronto, encourages empathy in elementary kids by having them interact with babies.

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Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

David Bornstein Tina Rosenberg

October 18, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Lesotho, Maseru

In a mountainous region of Lesotho, a man named Tsepo Kotelo visits 20 villages every week on his new motorcycle to provide health care to local villagers. The Elton John AIDS Foundation gifted the motorcycles to Kotelo and his colleagues, allowing them to increase the number of patients they visit by 600 percent. An organization called Riders for Health helps maintain the bikes, ensuring that remote villages will continue to receive medical care.

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Tibetan Exiles: 'We Shall Overcome'

Amy Yee

February 26, 2009 |

The Nation (New York) |

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Response Location: United States, New York

A New York-based nonprofit called Students for a Free Tibet is training Tibetans in "how to stage nonviolent protests." This effort, in conjunction with other Tibetan NGOs, has helped activists in Dharamsala, India to become "more organized, media savvy and technologically sophisticated," which in turn has increased the number of people who have come together to participate in the nonviolent protests.

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Going Big

Paul Tough

September 26, 2008 |

This American Life |

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Response Location: United States, Harlem, New York

Studies show the educational divide between affluent and poor people starts early on, before the age of 3, when children learn cognitive and emotional skills that are difficult to almost impossible to learn later as adults. In Central Harlem, parents were not applying methods that stimulate a child’s early development. So, Geoffrey Canada created Harlem’s Children Zone, an 8-week program where parents learn how to help their children. He also expanded his program to include charter schools. The first group of third graders had reading scores above the state average.

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Blocking the Transmission of Violence

Alex Kotlowitz

May 04, 2008 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

In the earliest days of what has become the Cure Violence model of violence prevention using street-outreach mediators, the Chicago CeaseFire group began hiring former gang members and people recently released from prison because of their credibility on the street. They "interrupt" violence, mediating conflicts to prevent escalation to gunfire, based on a public-health rationale that sees the spread of violence in epidemiological terms. The organization overcame skepticism when an early study showed its methods reduced violence by 16-27% more than in neighborhoods it hadn't worked in.

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