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  • Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

    January 27, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Amazon, Peru

    After two seasons, an unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon has resulted in a positive impact on families who, in the past, would turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities as a response to economic stress and food insecurity. According to the pilot's latest internal assessment, three communities are no longer engaging in illegal forest activities to make ends meet.

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  • Power to Improve

    January 17, 2025 |

    Chicoco Radio Viral Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

    To prevent utility poles from falling due to lack of maintenance, damaging homes and leaving residents without power, community members worked together to raise funds to build 18 new concrete poles without the help of any government entities or power companies.

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  • Sani Isla: A Kichwa community that found alternatives to oil in conservation and tourism

    December 24, 2024 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Sani Isla, Ecuador

    The indigenous community of Sani Isla in Ecuador receives financial incentives for conserving thousands of hectares through the state-run Socio Bosque program. This economic support helps them sustain their ways of life, safeguard more of the environment, and showcase the area’s biodiversity to tourists.

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  • How Mexico's waste pickers are getting decent, green economy jobs

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Mexico, San Lorenzo Cacaotepec, Oaxaca

    GO SiKanda supports informal waste pickers in their efforts to professionalize, set up enterprises, and improve their communities’ waste management. To date, health and safety policies have developed, respect has grown, and wages have increased.

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  • In Yemen's Refugee Camps, Midwives Fight to Ensure Safe Deliveries

    December 13, 2024 |

    More to Her Story |

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    Response Location: Yemen, Marib

    In displacement camps where medical care is scarce, community midwives are working against the odds to provide safe OB-GYN care and deliveries. An individual midwife can see anywhere from 18 to 50 women a month who struggle to access basic maternal health services.

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  • AttackAgainstAsthma: An initiative tackles Nigeria's asthma crisis on college campuses

    December 09, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    The Attack Against Asthma initiative uses crowdfunding initiatives to purchase inhalers that are then distributed to university students with asthma. Since launching in 2023, the campaign has distributed over 700 inhalers in the country’s southwest region and has even extended support to people who aren’t students if they can provide proof of need.

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  • 2 Months After Hurricane Helene, How Are Impacted Local Organizers Coping?

    December 02, 2024 |

    Truthout |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    Aflorar Herb Collective provides herbs to community members in the wake of Hurricane Helene and intense recovery efforts to address high levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia and other mental health struggles. The group uses locally grown herbs and traditional practices to make teas, salves, soaks and other remedies to calm the parasympathetic nervous system and provide a moment of much-needed self-care and rest to those impacted by the storm.

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  • Oriente Recicla: un referente de reciclaje en El Salvador

    November 27, 2024 |

    Distintas Latitudes |

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    Response Location: El Salvador, San Miguel

    La iniciativa Oriente Recicla, liderada por ciudadanos comprometidos y recicladores locales, ha logrado recuperar más de 246 toneladas de residuos desde su fundación en 2021.

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  • Millions in rural America lack reliable internet. How Massachusetts towns got online.

    November 19, 2024 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Otis, Massachusetts

    The town of Otis, Massachusetts leveraged state and federal grant funding alongside a municipal bond to build out its own fiber-optic network, increasing access to high-speed broadband in a rural area that has historically had little. Since it’s a municipal network, the town has more control over how it’s run, and prices are typically lower than those offered by private internet providers.

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  • Grassroots Hurricane Relief Efforts Fight Disinformation, Slow Bureaucracies and More Frequent Catastrophes

    November 17, 2024 |

    Inside Climate News |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Petersburg, Florida

    In the wake of Hurricane Helene and Milton, mutual aid groups across the country are emerging to get essential supplies to thousands of people in isolated communities and working to combat misinformation and government mistrust surrounding climate change. Because mutual aid groups aren’t bound to the bureaucracy of government organizations, they’re able to act quickly and connect with community members on a deeper level.

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