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  • Dare to dream: NGO empowers Ajegunle kids with library to address education gap

    December 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    To help bridge gaps in quality education for children in the Ajegunle neighborhood, the Transforming Lives and Communities Initiative established a community library and discovery. The library offers reading clinics, discovery programs focused on STEM skills, and game days that emphasize teamwork, collaboration, and decision-making.

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  • "I would've been a mum of 3": NGO is empowering girl child from Lagos slums

    December 09, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko, Lagos

    The Center for Children's Health Education, Orientation and Protection, or CEE-HOPE, works to address the challenges young girls growing up in poorer neighborhoods face, including lack of education and skills development and high child marriage rates. The organization helps these young girls access education and shelters for those experiencing abuse, helping to better themselves and turn them into advocates for other young girls.

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  • This trailblazing clinic is helping trans people in Brazil get the healthcare they need

    December 08, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

    The João W. Nery Outpatient Clinic provides medical and transition-related care for the area’s trans community. The Clinic provides patients access to social workers, psychologists, endocrinologists, nurses, and general practitioners who help patients get prescriptions for hormones, referrals for gender-affirming surgery, and advice on legally changing their names, all of which are offered for free.

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  • Rwanda combating Rift Valley Fever disease using mobile phones

    December 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Mobile applications such as iCow and Smart Nkunganire System allow Rwandan farmers to submit data and information about disease symptoms they observe in their cattle, which is then reviewed by community animal health workers and veterinary professionals. The data has helped identify outbreaks of Rift Valley Fever and improve vaccination efforts.

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  • The Volunteer Traditional Birth Attendant Plugging the Healthcare Gap for Women in Durumi IDP Camp

    December 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Durumi, Abuja

    A group of local women are providing healthcare and helping deliver babies for those who can’t afford traditional skilled birth attendance or can’t access hospitals. Over the years, the group has delivered over 200 babies, has established a network of doctors to contact during emergencies, and now has access to a local clinic built by Network Aid for Humanitarian Assistance to provide higher quality care.

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  • This Nigerian start-up is dedicated to debunking political misinformation

    December 06, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    To combat mis- and disinformation, Nigerian startup FactCheck Elections monitors voting results and verifies claims made during political debates and then distributes vetted information via articles, infographics, visual media, and social media. The organization has published more than 100 fact-checks so far.

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  • 'I'm not an alcoholic, I'm an Australian': Support for going sober in the bush

    December 03, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Australia, New South Wales

    Clean Slate Clinic is an in-home detox service that helps people receive a medicated detox plan including pharmaceuticals and vitamins, as well as daily telehealth sessions, rehabilitation support and check-ins. These detox services are currently undergoing a trial period that will tailor the program according to the unique needs of people in more rural and remote settings.

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  • How Dobbs Triggered a ‘Vasectomy Revolution'

    December 02, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Joplin, Missouri

    The country’s only mobile vasectomy clinic, owned and operated by Esgar Guarín, works to get men to participate in contraception by getting a vasectomy, especially after the recent overturn of Roe v. Wade, and abortion bans across the country. Since the decision, there has been a massive spike in vasectomies. Throughout his career, Guarin has completed more than 3,000.

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  • Mitigating internal displacement, one skilled woman at a time

    December 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Skilled Women Initiative provides training around mindset, technical skills, entrepreneurship, and marketing to women living in Nigerian camps for people who have been internally displaced due to Boko Haram. The program trains roughly 500 women each year and past participants say they are now able to better afford expenses such as sending their children to schools.

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  • The power of promotoras in the fight against COVID-19

    December 01, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Radium Springs, New Mexico

    Community health workers — or “promotoras” — work to buffer the harmful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically in isolated, Hispanic regions. These bilingual healthcare workers serve as a vital connection in the communities they serve, sharing medical information, COVID tests, and vaccines and working to dispel vaccine mistrust and misinformation.

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