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Group led by a university teacher saves Nigerian vulnerable, endangered pangolins from extinction

Oluwatobi Odeyinka

October 12, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria

The Pangolin Conservation Guild Nigeria is a nonprofit educating the public on the importance of the declining pangolin population, the laws against hunting them, and how to keep them from going extinct. The organization also contains a task force to rescue captured pangolins and return them to the wild.

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Chess offers inclusion, new direction to marginalised kids in Nigerian slums

Adebola Makinde

October 05, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

Chess in Slums Africa uses chess to provide education and enrichment for marginalized children. The program typically lasts for about two weeks and consists of chess sessions, mental math, and discussions to get to know the children intimately. Then, some of the children are placed in shelters or reconnected with their families. The organization then pays scheduled visits to ensure the child’s needs are met. So far, the organization has helped 976 children across the state.

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What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay

Noah Gallagher Shannon

October 05, 2022 |

The New York Times Magazine |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Uruguay

Uruguay has turned to biomass, solar, and wind energy to transition to a 98% renewable energy grid that decreased over half a billion dollars from their annual budget along with their carbon footprint.

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Saving business and upgrading the city: how entrepreneurs get relocation help in Ivano-Frankivsk

Maria Smyk

October 03, 2022 |

Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk

The Save Business Now initiative in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is helping businesses to relocate from dangerous areas of the country. Businesses fill out an online application about their needs so the organization can help them through the process of looking for a new location and connect them with experts and other businesses for support.

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Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

Ray Levy Uyeda

October 03, 2022 |

Prism |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Hawaii

Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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Community ed centers help English learners break the ice(olation)

Meg McIntyre

October 01, 2022 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

The Keen Community Education Center offers free English courses for locals whose first language is not English. Along with improving their writing, reading, and pronunciation, students say they find a sense of community among their peers.

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Dual-language immersion: 'Only a matter of time' for New Hampshire?

Meg McIntyre

October 01, 2022 |

Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Teachers are practicing dual-language immersion by teaching content in English and the student's native tongue to help prevent loss of fluency in their first language while learning the new one.

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Workplace equity in Charlotte

Chris Rudisill

September 30, 2022 |

QNotes Carolinas |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

The Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce was originally formed as a safe space for LGBTQ+ business owners and professionals to network safely. The Chamber offers a combination of networking events, advocacy, and professional development opportunities designed to ensure members have access to the skills and training necessary to develop an equitable business community.

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How ecotourism in Konkan promotes climate-friendly tourism

Vinaya Kurtkoti

September 28, 2022 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India

In India, experience-based tourism promotes sustainability and conservation awareness while supporting local economies. For this style of tourism, tourists experience life like local indigenous communities in everything from eating to helping in agricultural fields.

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As COVID-19 Subsides, Online Memory Cafes for Dementia Linger

Elizabeth Hewitt

September 28, 2022 |

Next Avenue |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Barre, Vermont

Virtual memory cafes for people with dementia are able to reach more people, avoid transportation and mobility barriers, and open new possibilities — like making new friends across the ocean. First pioneered in the Netherlands in the 1990s, memory cafes have spread around the world as a way for people experiencing memory loss and caregivers can find community and companionship.

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