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  • An Emergency Tele-Hailing Initiative Is Helping Lagos Residents Reach Ambulances in Eight Minutes or Less

    May 12, 2025 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Eight Medical is a technology-driven emergency medical service that uses real-time communication systems to deliver ambulance services within 10 minutes or less. The service has 45 control center staff, over 400 field personnel, and over 25 ambulances, and operates under a “care now, pay later” scheme, making emergency healthcare more affordable. Since launching, it has received over 15,000 calls and saved about 8,000 lives by providing fast, life-saving care.

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  • The Screenings Saving Lives in Rural Guatemala

    May 07, 2025 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Guatemala

    The Nursing Heart mobile cervical cancer screening clinic uses visual inspection with an acetic acid (VIA) screening method to make cancer screening simpler and more affordable. Since 2011, the clinic has performed more than 4,000 mobile cancer screenings in more than 40 rural Guatemalan communities.

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  • Jobs for Life

    May 07, 2025 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    Floare de Cires addresses the employment barriers people with disabilities face by training them in culinary and hospitality skills that help them integrate into the workforce and build a sense of independence.

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  • Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

    May 05, 2025 |

    Capital News Service Maryland |

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    Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

    The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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  • This Youth-led Initiative is Debunking Myths About Health Insurance, PHCs in Nigeria's Capital

    May 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    DEAN Initiative's Youth Health Access Initiative addresses healthcare misconceptions among young people through targeted community outreach, educational workshops in local languages, and training programs for healthcare workers. The initiative specifically addresses myths that Primary Healthcare Centers are only for pregnant women and children, and that health insurance is only for the sick, helping to increase healthcare accessibility.

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  • In Sri Lanka, 'the Ocean Is For Everyone'

    May 02, 2025 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Sri Lanka, Weligama

    SeaSisters offers free swim and surf lessons to local women and girls, challenging social norms and fear that traditionally keep them from enjoying the ocean. The group has since trained 150 participants, helping them overcome their fears and find a newfound sense of freedom.

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  • The Quiet Engine for Affordable Housing in Red and Blue States

    May 01, 2025 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) like BlueHub Loan Fund are stepping up to help create and preserve affordable housing. BlueHub Loan Fund recently financed a project in Nashville that converted two abandoned motels into affordable studio apartments, when larger banks wouldn’t finance the project.

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  • Swipe To Survive: How Digital Payments Tackle Youth Unemployment In Nigeria

    April 30, 2025 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benin City, Edo

    Nigeria's digital payment ecosystem, particularly Point of Sale (POS) operations, has emerged as an entrepreneurial solution to help young people find sustainable employment and income to support themselves and their families. With the POS systems, people can establish small hubs for cash withdrawals, bill payments and other financial services. With the help of these new ventures, youth unemployment has dropped from 53.4% to 6.5% over a four-year period.

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  • Baby Saver boxes: Lifelines to moms or criminal tools?

    April 30, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    Baby Savers allow mothers to place their babies for adoption anonymously. The box is monitored, and once a baby is received, social workers are notified to help organize housing and care. Many mothers and advocates see this as life-saving care, though many others are critical of the boxes, and they don’t have support from local government agencies. Despite that, some Savers have been open for over 20 years, taking in thousands of babies over the years.

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  • Colleges partnered with an EV battery factory to train students and ignite the economy. Trump's clean energy war complicates their plans

    April 28, 2025 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas

    To quickly build a skilled workforce, two Kansas community colleges and Panasonic created an accelerated 8-week apprenticeship, funded by the company and featuring tailored classroom and practical training. The program aims to fast-track workers into Panasonic's new EV battery factory while providing clear career pathways through stackable credentials.

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