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  • Building a Better Indigenous Future

    December 24, 2024 |

    LiCAS News |

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    Response Location: Malaysia, Sabah

    Indigenous communities confronting poverty, loss of traditional land, and marginalization in Malaysia are finding support through PACOS Trust, a faith-based group focused on community organizing. By providing structured leadership training, advocacy skills, and livelihood development initiatives, PACOS empowers young Indigenous leaders to address pressing issues in the community, advocate for land rights, and preserve their cultural practices.

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  • Feeding Hope: An MSF-Backed Nutrition Project is Giving Malnourished Children a Fighting Chance in Katsina

    December 23, 2024 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kofar Sauri, Katsina

    Médecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) launched a nutrition project in collaboration with the Katsina State Ministry of Health to provide healthcare and support to children suffering from malnutrition. Currently, the organization has four centers throughout the state. Year over year, the centers are seeing an increase in the number of patients, having cared for about 20,000 patients from January 2024 to October 2024 alone.

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  • Idea: Open Health Hubs, One-Stop Shops for Addiction Recovery

    December 23, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Health engagement hubs like Washington state’s Buprenorphine Pathways connect people with prescriptions for methadone and buprenorphine to help treat addiction. In addition to medication and a syringe-exchange program, the hub also connects patients to social services, taking a more holistic approach to addiction treatment.

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  • How Government Buses Are Transforming Girl Child Education in Kano

    December 20, 2024 |

    Nigeria Info FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    To help address low school attendance and retention among girls, Kano’s state government launched a transportation initiative with buses that bring students to and from school for N50 per trip, a much lower cost than arriving by commercial rickshaw. Both students and teachers report that the program has made it easier and less costly to arrive at school on time.

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  • Transforming the Delta

    December 20, 2024 |

    Food and Environment Reporting Network |

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    Response Location: United States

    The Next California project, a collaboration between AgLaunch and WWF, is helping transform the Mississippi Delta into a sustainable and prosperous agricultural economy. Working with local farmers across Arkansas, Tennessee, and Mississippi, the organizations are helping agricultural operations incubate projects, diversify assets, and grow distribution networks.

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  • How One City Cut Its Poverty Rate By More Than a Third

    December 19, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building acts as a hub for connecting the city’s many anti-poverty programs and organizations, with partnerships that holistically tackle everything from job training and guaranteed income initiatives to community health programs. Since 2014, the city’s poverty rate has dropped from nearly 27 percent to 17.1 percent.

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  • Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here's How

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Farmers markets, supported by federal, state, and private food assistance programs, are helping to bridge gaps left by disparate food access by offering a direct distribution model.

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  • Beneath Branko's Bridge

    December 18, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Serbia, Belgrade

    The Drumodom program meets people experiencing homelessness where they are with a mobile doctor’s office as well as a retrofitted bus that offers showers, hygiene products, and hair cuts given by volunteers. The service is often clients’ only means of receiving medical care, and more than 1,200 people benefited from such care in the first nine months of 2024.

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  • How forest therapy is helping survivors of wildfires reconnect with nature

    December 17, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    Forest therapy, which was first developed in Japan in the 1980s, is being used to help survivors of wildfires in California. For many, but not all, it helps people reconnect with nature and adjust their expectations of what the forest can be for them.

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  • NM kids can text '988' for free mental health help

    December 13, 2024 |

    Southern New Mexico Journalism Collaborative |

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    Response Location: United States, Las Cruces, New Mexico

    The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline provides free, 24/7 support for those experiencing a crisis, emotional distress, alcohol or drug concerns, and general mental health struggles. The line can be reached via call or text, instantly connecting the person with a crisis counselor. Since its launch in May 2022, 988 has received 10.8 million calls, texts, and chats, with call volume increasing by 74% in New Mexico alone from 2022 to 2024.

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