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  • This house overwhelms me and no one is grateful

    May 28, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Bogotá's Manzanas del Cuidado (Caregiving Blocks) provides free services like education, counseling, and skills training at 25 neighborhood locations to reduce the burden on women caregivers, successfully empowering participants to complete high school, gain new skills, and find employment opportunities. It's become a pioneering model in Latin America for recognizing unrenumerating labors. Read this article in Spanish here: https://solu.news/zfxr

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  • The women of Salta are building their future

    May 26, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Salta

    The "Constructoras" training program in Salta, Argentina, combined with 10% gender quota laws for public works, has trained over 1,100 women in construction trades since 2022 and helped increase women's participation in the sector nationally from 4.1% to 7.1%, though progress faces significant challenges from political rollbacks and persistent workplace discrimination. Read this article in Spanish here: https://solu.news/aeh0

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  • La casa agobia y nadie agradece

    May 18, 2025 |

    El Turbión |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    El Sistema Distrital de Cuidado de Bogotá, implementado desde 2020 con sus 25 Manzanas del Cuidado como estrategia central, es un modelo pionero en América Latina por reconocer el trabajo no remunerado. Ha logrado transformar la vida de mujeres cuidadoras ofreciéndoles espacios gratuitos de formación, apoyo psicojurídico y desarrollo personal que les han permitido retomar estudios, fortalecer su autoestima y acceder a redes de apoyo. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/wiva

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  • Mujeres en obra: las salteñas que construyen su futuro

    May 15, 2025 |

    elDiarioAR |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Salta

    El programa Constructoras de Salta capacitó a 1,100 mujeres en oficios de construcción desde 2022 y logró que 15 municipios aprobaran leyes de cupo del 10% en obras públicas, contribuyendo al aumento nacional de participación femenina en el sector del 4.1% al 7.1% entre 2007-2023, aunque enfrenta limitaciones por la disolución del Ministerio de Mujeres nacional y la falta de reglamentación local. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/xuvw

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  • This snack company is trying to change the way you think about chocolate

    May 13, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: Ecuador

    Blue Stripes addresses cacao-industry food waste and farmer poverty by turning overlooked cacao fruit pulp and husks into marketable snacks, creating additional revenue streams for farmers and potentially reducing environmental impacts.

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  • How to save a desert oasis—before it vanishes completely

    May 06, 2025 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Morocco

    In Morocco's desert oasis, combining traditional ecological knowledge (communal groundwater management, rainwater harvesting, sustainable agriculture) and cultural renewal (a music school and festival) helps combat desertification, encourages youth retention, and strengthens community resilience, although evidence of long-term ecological restoration is still limited.

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  • Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

    May 06, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Bolivia

    Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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  • From privilege to subjectivity: reflecting on masculinities to improve gender equity

    May 05, 2025 |

    El Colectivo 506 |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Program H is a group educational methodology that works with young men through participatory workshops, role-playing, and debates to reflect on toxic masculinities and promote more equitable attitudes toward gender. It has been implemented in more than 30 countries since 2002, successfully facilitated by males who act as gender equity role models. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/24kd

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  • Redes de esperanza: mujeres de Piura luchan contra la violencia de género

    May 03, 2025 |

    Norte Sostenible |

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    Response Location: Peru, Piura

    Las redes comunitarias de mujeres defensoras de Piura son estructuras organizadas que, desde 2018, brindan acompañamiento, formación y articulación interinstitucional a víctimas de violencia de género, combinando apoyo psicológico, rutas legales y empoderamiento económico. Han logrado que más mujeres se atrevan a denunciar violencia, han mejorado la coordinación entre instituciones públicas como policía y fiscalías, y han transformado a sobrevivientes en lideresas que rompen ciclos de violencia en sus comunidades. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/w0cx

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  • With ‘Green Islam,' climate action is a religious duty – and an act of community

    May 01, 2025 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Jakarta

    Green Islam is an Indonesian grassroots movement combining Islamic teachings on environmental stewardship with community-driven actions such as eco-boarding schools, green-certified mosques, and interfaith dialogues to address climate change and ecological crises.

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