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  • Montana Creates Emergency ‘Drive-Thru' Blood Pickup Service for Rural Ambulances

    The Montana Interfacility Blood Network allows ambulance crews to pick up blood from area hospitals to transfuse to patients on the way to get the advanced care they need to prevent death or permanent brain injury en route to the emergency room. The Network is primarily for rural patients who face elevated rates of traumatic injury and have less access to healthcare. Since launching in 2022, the Network has helped three patients.

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  • A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here's what it took.

    In partnership with other local organizations and advocacy groups, Communities for Kids trains providers to offer Spanish-language childcare, as the state lacks sufficient access to culturally responsive, bilingual care. The training is free and has already licensed several individuals who now run their own Spanish-speaking childcare centers.

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  • Can A Public University Change The Fate Of One Of India's Most Backward Districts?

    Young women in the Nuh district, where access to education for women is limited, wrote postcards to the Prime Minister that received attention to build a university. Their efforts worked and since then the government opened a college in the district, 621 young women enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program, and 73 enrolled in the Bachelor of Commerce program.

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  • The 'Beautiful Gate' Where Polio Survivors in Nigeria Find Hope

    The Beautiful Gates Handicapped People Center builds mobility aids like wheelchairs and crutches and distributes them to people with disabilities, particularly those paralyzed by polio. Since forming in 1998, Beautiful Gate has distributed 32,000 wheelchairs and mobility tools.

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  • Inside the Hausa edtech platform bridging the language divide for Africans

    The online education platform Flowdiary is bridging a language gap in the industry by offering training courses in Hausa, so young people in Hausa-speaking communities across Africa can learn the necessary skills for a career in technology.

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  • Free air conditioners available again in Pa. through utility assistance program

    Pennsylvania uses funding from the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program to provide air-conditioning units and repair units for people who would otherwise be unable to afford them.

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  • How Foundation Helps to Reduce Hemophilia Burden

    Since 2010, the World Federation of Hemophilia has been providing patients with free treatment to reduce the financial burden of caring for someone with this condition. People living with hemophilia can access treatment whenever they need it and have indicated their condition has been improving now that they can afford care.

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  • Keene Lions Club screenings help kids envision healthy future

    The KidSight program offers free vision screenings to catch and correct eyesight problems early. The local Keene Lions Club offers these screenings throughout the year with the help of trained volunteers. Beyond screenings, the Lions Club can also fully cover the costs of any further care needed, such as glasses or more exams, for families living below 200% of the federal poverty level. The group screened 3,394 this past school year.

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  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America

    Modeled after a similar program in Costa Rica, Neighborhood Nursing has teams of nurses and community health workers who host weekly visits throughout the community to provide free medical care — particularly preventative care — to those who need it. Neighborhood Nursing has helped build trust between residents and healthcare workers and aims to serve more than 4,000 people within the next year.

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  • New Jersey Ditched Cash Bail. Research Shows the Reform Didn't Increase Violence.

    New Jersey voters approved an amendment that removed cash bail so people would no longer be incarcerated because they couldn’t afford to pay it. Now, the courts evaluate each person’s risk to the public, of skipping trial, and of reoffense to determine whether they are held in detention until their trial.

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