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  • Prisons Rethink Isolation, Saving Money, Lives and Sanity

    March 10, 2012 |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    A positive transformation in a Mississippi prison has become a focal point for a growing number of states rethinking the use of long-term isolation. Humanitarian groups have long argued that solitary confinement has devastating psychological effects, but a central driver in the recent shift is economics. Some officials have also been persuaded by research suggesting that isolation is vastly overused and that it does little to reduce overall prison violence.

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  • Innovations in Light

    February 02, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

    Solar lighting will revolutionize Africa - but access infrastructure is a difficult thing to build. Three different, innovative business models get lights into the hands of the people who need them most.

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  • A Boost for the World's Poorest Schools

    January 19, 2012 |

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    Response Location: Nepal, Kailalia District

    How can rural African children learn to read when there are no books in their languages? Save the Children helps kids to create their own books, creating a homemade library for their village.

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  • To Maintain Water Pumps, It Takes More Than a Village

    December 13, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma

    Water pumps often break and no one locally has the skill or parts to fix them. Two columns on Water Aid’s program in India to train women to be handpump mechanics.

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  • Outsourcing Is Not (Always) Evil

    December 08, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The United States can outsource certain kinds of "microwork," such as accurately digitizing large swaths of information, to developing countries without taking jobs from Americans ― if it’s done carefully, and ethically, as some organizations are working to do. As the author Robert Wright has argued, we no longer live in a zero-sum world, where one person’s, or one country’s gain, must be another’s loss.

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  • Keeping the Water Flowing in Rural Villages

    December 08, 2011 |

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    Response Location: India, Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh

    In Tanzania, mapping of water points showed that nationally, less than half the existing rural water points were working—of water points that were less than two years old, a quarter had already stopped functioning. British charity WaterAid sets up workshops in poor countries like Tanzania and India to train mechanics in order to have a local fix for these problems. The mechanic position offers employment opportunities for women, fixes pumps for an average of 100 rupees (roughly $2.00), and repaired more than 1,100 pumps in the first 14 months.

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  • Health Care for a Changing Work Force

    December 01, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    America’s system of health care is based on an old industrial-era model, without taking into account a decentralized, mobile, independent workforce that remains largely unprotected without health and unemployment insurance. The Freelancers Insurance Company, based in New York State, offers competitive premiums by having their executives receive salaries at low wages. The model keeps costs under control, which in turn makes health care more accessible to independent workers.

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  • For Weight Loss, a Recipe of Teamwork and Trust

    November 15, 2011 |

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    Response Location: United States, Irving, Texas

    While weight loss can be challenging to maintain, different structures are being created to help. Certain support groups, financial incentives, and tough love are proving to be effective.

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  • The Birth Control Solution

    November 02, 2011 |

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    Response Location: Afghanistan

    Family planning, including access to contraception, is the key to reducing population growth. Not only does family planning therefore reduce poverty and environmental damage, it also saves money. “If you think family planning is expensive, you haven’t priced babies,” says Nicholas Kristof.

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  • In Famine, Vouchers Can Be Tickets to Survival

    October 27, 2011 |

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    Response Location: Somalia

    World Concern, a Seattle-based Christian humanitarian group, provides people around the world with vouchers they can use in select markets, rather than the traditional emergency food aid of rice and other grains. In Dhobley, Somalia, the solution of vouchers quickens the process of receiving the food and contributes to the local economy.

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