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School Farms Target Food Insecurity, ‘Supermarket Redlining'

Torsheta Jackson

April 01, 2022 |

Mississippi Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

A high school in Jackson, Mississippi, hosts the Academy of Natural Resource Utilization in which students grow produce in greenhouses, sell it at farmers markets, and make food products like salsa. The academy is an effort to educate youth on gardening and combat food insecurity in the community.

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To save lives, midwives mix Mayan heritage with Western medicine

Megan Janetsky

March 29, 2022 |

National Geographic |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Guatemala

Indigenous midwives in rural areas of Guatemala help pregnant women with limited access to healthcare give birth in an effort to prevent maternal and infant deaths.

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Democracy Comes to Michigan

David Byrne

March 21, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States, Michigan

A grassroots campaign ended gerrymandering in Michigan by passing an initiative requiring districts be drawn by citizen-commissions rather than politicians. The all-volunteer campaign went door-to-door collecting enough signatures to get the initiative on the ballot and used creative voter-engagement techniques to sustain the support. Once the ballot initiative passed, 9,300 people applied for the first commission. A third-party firm ultimately selected four Democrats, four Republicans, and five non-partisan people as commissioners, who worked together very well to redraw districts.

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Kansas increasingly meeting the need for rural broadband speed

Stan Finger

March 16, 2022 |

The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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Response Location: United States, Kansas

Kansas has increased access to high-quality broadband, especially in rural areas, by using $60 of the $250 million Congress allocated to Kansas for coronavirus-related costs. The Statewide Broadband Expansion Planning Task Force had already made recommendations to the state legislature, which were approved in the 2020 session. Companies who won the bids to expand access quickly deployed about 350 miles of fiber and fixed wireless service in some areas. Other grant-funded initiatives will continue to improve access, particularly to low-income areas.

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Is Brazilian jiujitsu making policing safer for everyone?

Mary Hall Dray Clark

March 03, 2022 |

NewsNation |

Broadcast TV News |

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Response Location: United States, Minnesota

The St. Paul Police Department is one of a growing number of such departments which have integrated training in Brazilian jiujitsu for officers as a way to reduce not just civilian injuries but also the amount of money spent on lawsuit settlements as a result of police misconduct.

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From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

Chibuike Alagboso

February 07, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sauka

The international organization Riders for Health provided an electric generator to a community in Nigeria to power their water pump and get them access to clean drinking water.

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The Answer to our Youth Mental Health Crisis?

Jessica Blatt Press

February 03, 2022 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

To provide mental health care to students, a pilot program at Girard College meets students where they are at with practices based on integrated behavioral health, adding mental health care into conventional health care settings.

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The ‘AI-Powered Midwife' Helping Pregnant Nigerian Women and Newborns Stay Healthy

Innocent Eteng

January 24, 2022 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

Encouraged by her own pregnancy experience, medical technology expert Abisola Oladapo worked with two of her colleagues to create Sister Agnes. It is an AI system that delivers periodic, timely information to pregnant women by calls and texts in local languages to empower them with information about their health. 79 percent of the women who used the service delivered in health centers, were four times more likely to survive the pregnancy, and the survival rate of their children was 33 percent higher than the national average.

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Back from the Brink

Veronika Perková

January 24, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: Zambia

The North Luangwa Conservation Program provides financial and technical support to protect and grow the population of black rhinos at North Luangwa National Park in Zambia.

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‘Boys and girls have equal freedom': Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms

Hannah Ellis-Petersen KA Shaji

January 02, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: India, Kerala

In an attempt to provide ease of movement to girl students while playing, Valayanchirangara primary school introduced "gender-neutral" uniforms for all its 756 students that eliminated the earlier requirement for them to wear skirts. It has since inspired several other schools in Kerala to similarly change their uniforms and snowballed a movement, supported by the state's education minister no less, where more such measures to promote gender equality in schools are being encouraged and adapted.

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