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India's condom showrooms: A place to talk about sex, health and candy nipple tassels

Chryselle D’Silva Dias

March 18, 2016 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Panaji

A business in Panaji is helping to decrease the stigma around sexual health in India by selling products such as condoms and encouraging customers to ask questions. While stigma still persists throughout the region, the store has expanded to two other locations and has seen a varied customer base including "college girls and boys, housewives, people above 50."

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Communities step up for kids' mental health

Katherine Lymn

March 17, 2016 |

The Post Crescent |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

After shortages of mental health options for kids and untold grief, counties in Wisconsin have responded with new kinds of support for at-risk youth. Wisconsin communities have increased access with reduced wait time, and have used horse therapy, support groups, charity golf that raises awareness, school-group therapy, as well as mobile live chat sessions, among others.

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Jennifer Pahlka helps improve how government works

John Wildermuth

March 11, 2016 |

SFGate |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Jennifer Pahlka founded Code for America, an organization that provides human-centered design tech solutions to government services. Now they have a growing list of requests from cities all over the US, a network of 44,000 volunteers nationwide who create "civic-hacking" solutions, and an over $10 million yearly budget.

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Could Urban Farms Be the Preschools of the Future?

Eillie Anzilotti

March 07, 2016 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United Kingdom, London

A group of architects proposed a new design to help raise environmentally responsible kids by combining farms and preschools.

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With tent city cleared, no shortage of ideas — or homeless

Kevin Fagan

March 06, 2016 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Removing encampments does not help the San Francisco homeless because there are not enough places for them to live off the streets. The city has had a history of projects that have aided the homeless in the past ten years, and currently in works the works is the creation of the Department of Homelessness. The Department will streamline programs such as housing, counseling, street outreach and other services, while managing government funds to improve allocations of spending.

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Brazil's school lunch program is putting food on the table for the country's small farmers

Rhitu Chatterjee

February 10, 2016 |

Public Radio International (PRI) |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Brazil, Promissão

Brazil's small farmers can now directly supply the country's school meals programs. It's been a big boost for local farmers, and it's helping the schools too.

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In India, Dispensers of Balm Travel to Death's Door

Ankita Rao

January 12, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: India, Kerala

The palliative care system in Kerala, India, has been singled out as a beacon of hope in offering the possibility of a dignified death to everyone by safely providing morphine.

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The Formal World Economy Was Failing Women and Small Farmers. So This Guy Built a New One.

Gila Lyons

December 08, 2015 |

GOOD Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Colombia, Cartagena

The Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership develops enterprises that foster sustainable economic development, focusing especially on empowering farmers and women.

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Cooked, frozen, trucked: N.Y. facility churns out Boston school lunches

James Vaznis

December 06, 2015 |

The Boston Globe |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Islandia, New York

Whitsons Culinary Group’s food-making center, in a bucolic town of 3,000, produces about 80,000 meals a day. It addresses the question of how to feed students in a school district where many buildings have no kitchens.

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How newborn testing should work

Ellen Gabler

November 16, 2015 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Iowa

State-run newborn screening programs can vary widely by hospital, creating an inconsistent process and a dangerous environment for babies born with disorders. These six points address how screening should be done.

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