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Fanned with love

Mark Anthony D. Toldo

July 15, 2018 |

Philippine Daily Inquirer |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Philippines, Parañaque City

What started as a form of therapy turned into a business venture for this group of moms. The aim was to “empower mothers through art” and now they are selling their pieces for a profit.

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Neighbors on call to help care for one another

Alex Sakariassen

July 14, 2018 |

High Country News |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Haiti, Mirebalais

Although Haiti and Montana appear to be vastly different places, they have a few important things in common; they are geographically rural, they both face high rates of mental illness and a shortage of mental health care workers, and they are both combatting this problem by utilizing Community Health Workers. These workers regularly visit people who struggle with mental health issues to check up on them and ensure that they stay on track with their treatment, and provide consistent support.

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Halting Violence In The Heartland

Gaby Galvin

July 14, 2018 |

U.S. News & World Report |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Omaha, Nebraska

A nonprofit in Omaha focuses on hospitals for its gang intervention work, making contact with gang members or potential gang members who have been injured through violence and may be ready to make a change in their lives. YouTurn connects them to services like housing, education and job programs and acts as a bridge between families, police and doctors. It also works to prevent violence that might occur in hospitals through revenge or retaliation by rival gangs.

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Door Step School Brings Education to Out-of-School Children in India

Shruthi Nair

July 14, 2018 |

Borgen Magazine |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: India, Mumbai

The Door Step School group is making education accessible to disadvantaged communities across India. Part of that approach included its mobile classroom, School on Wheels, where a bus with a driver, instructor, and a supervisor head out to different communities and host up to 50 pupils at a time.

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Finding the Untapped Potential of Alleys

Lynn Freehill-Maye

July 13, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Miami, Florida

Redesigning an alley expands commercial space and brings life to a city. Long-neglected side streets across the United States are getting makeovers both by citizens and developers. Miami’s Jade Alley is a particularly showy example with its archways, flowering trees, ice cream shop, and lingerie boutique.

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Farmworkers Feed Us. How Do We Support Their Kids?

Tennessee Watson

July 13, 2018 |

Wyoming Public Media |

Multi-Media |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Manvel, North Dakota

Children of farmworker families, many of whom travel seasonally during the school year, often need help filling gaps in the curriculum. Since the 1960s, the Migrant Education Program has been providing states with access to federal education funds meant to assist the children of migrant families with meeting educational requirements.. The money is used to provide different levels of support, from summer instruction to specialized curricula, in the states that continue to accept funding.

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As need soars, schools rally behind families in Vancouver, Wash. — and other cities take notice

Neal Morton

July 13, 2018 |

The Seattle Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Vancouver, Washington

As absenteeism has decreased and scores have gone up, Vancouver's community school model has not gone unnoticed. Administrators and teachers attribute the change to the city's push to incorporate social services into the fabric of at least half of its school campuses.

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A New Use for Food Trucks: Feeding Hungry Students in the Summer

Mattie Quinn

July 13, 2018 |

Governing |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Governing estimates that one federal free summer meals initiative only reaches 15 percent of eligible children. Recognizing flaws with the city's distribution system, the Minneapolis school district started serving students free meals by bus.

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'A dignified alternative': the special cart for homeless people to keep their stuff

Ashifa Kassam

July 13, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Canada, Toronto

People experiencing homelessness might now have one less worry, as students and engineers are designing a cart for homeless individuals to effectively store their belongings. The prototyping process involved hearing from future users. Though this cart will not solve homelessness, it will target on aspect of the problem, mitigating one stressful factor about being homeless.

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'It keeps us safe': An NYC bathroom set up to stem overdoses

Jennifer Peltz

July 13, 2018 |

Associated Press |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In Brooklyn, VOCAL-NY runs a bathroom that serves as a safe injection site and needle exchange program for those using heroin and other drugs. The bathroom is monitored by intercom and is a less "official" version of safe injection sites being tested around North America, in cities like Vancouver and Seattle.

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