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  • Tiny Bus, Big Opportunities for Immigrant Kids

    El Busesito, which means “the little bus” in English, operates four retrofitted buses that provide bilingual preschool education on wheels for Latino immigrant families in five neighborhoods. The free early childhood education has improved developmental progress and school readiness for the nearly 100 children it serves. Valley Settlement, the nonprofit that runs El Busesito, also offers family engagement programs for the communities.

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  • 'We can't incarcerate our way out of the problem': Why some judges favor drug courts' treatment-based approach

    Drug court programs serve as an alternative to incarceration for people dealing with substance abuse. The treatment-based approach provides medical treatment, counseling, education assistance, and employment assistance.

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  • ‘It's about inclusion': Norfolk's first drag storytime a progressive step for rural county, advocates say

    A rural county recently hosted its first drag storytime in an effort to increase representation and inclusion among children — and adults — in the community by exposing them to LGBTQ+ people in their neighborhood. Those who attended felt a sense of belonging, inclusivity, and acceptance in a county that has historically been lacking.

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  • Rekindling Hope: An NGO Builds Safe Space for Displaced GBV Survivors in Borno

    At various camps for internally displaced persons, the Gender Equality Peace and Development Center built three permanent safe spaces for women and girls that have experienced gender-based violence. The Center is not only a safe space for these people to go but also empowers them by teaching them new skills, providing access to health care and a sense of community.

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  • A Forgotten Barrio Fights to Keep the Water Running

    The “La Asociación de Usuarios del Acueducto Comunitario ‘Aguas Calientes’” is a comunity water plant built with government grant money to address the potable water scarcity in the area. Over the course of two decades of operation, the Association is the primary water supplier of the area’s 6,000 residents.

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  • How do you grow crops with no water? A rancher on the Gila River is trying an old approach

    An Arizona farmer became the first organic regenerative certified farm in the southwest using practices that conserve water and improve soil health along the drought-stuck Gila River. His practices include growing arid-adapted crops, integrating livestock grazing, and planting cover crops.

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  • Tenants Empowering Tenants

    Tenant advocacy group Long Beach Residents Empowered (LIBRE) works with renters and helps them advocate for themselves against tenant harassment, unsafe living conditions and unjust evictions. LIBRE is divided into various campaigns, each with a different focus, like neighborhood organizing or training others about how to fight for tenant protection and advocate for policy change.

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  • What It Takes To Shelter Washington State's Housing Insecure Youth

    School districts in Washington State are required to identify students experiencing homelessness and enroll them into a state program in which the district pays for the students' transportation and covers the cost of other necessities with allotted federal funds.

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  • Student Journalists in Nigeria Have Taken to Solutions Journalism, Here's Why

    Students in Nigeria are participating in trainings around solutions journalism, a framework for reporting on responses to social problems. Journalists who have adopted the method say it has given them renewed passion for the profession and helped build trust with their audiences.

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  • Kisumu farmers adopt use of worms to improve yields, save soil

    Farmers in Kisumu, Kenya, are restoring the health of their soil by using compost as manure instead of chemical fertilizers. To make the compost, food scraps and other waste are placed in a bin with earthworms and water. The worms break down the organic material and deposit their own waste that is full of nutrients.

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