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How to give the land back

Aaron Fernando

September 07, 2021 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Eureka, California

In California, the Wiyot tribe and the city of Eureka are forming a Community Land Trust to return to their ancestral land to the Wayat tribe. The trust ensures the Wayat tribe keeps decision-making powers concerning the land. Prior, to that the tribe raised $200,000 and purchased portions of Tulawat Island. In 2004, a tribal chairwoman requested a transfer of land back to the tribe that was unanimously approved by Eureka's city council. In 2019, the city returned an additional 200 acres.

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Haitians helping Haitians: A winding, yet eye-opening path to bring help

J.O. Haselhoef

September 01, 2021 |

Haitian Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Haiti

Haitian nonprofit, Health in the Mountains provided vital supplies to people in need after the earthquake. Despite a number of obstacles, the team was able to transport the supplies to the final destination.

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These Texas schools offer lessons on how to quickly catch up kids learning English during pandemic

Valeria Olivares Brayden Garcia

August 25, 2021 |

Dallas Morning News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Fort Worth, Texas

The International Newcomer Academy provides English language learning students with a learning environment where they can catch up on their language skills before moving on to regular campuses. Teachers at the academy are specifically trained to provide language support and teach in an understandable way through visuals, repetition, and communication.

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How Ex-Miners Turn Toxic Land into Lavender Farms

Emily Harger

August 18, 2021 |

Business Insider |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, West Virginia

Appalachian Botanical Company, or ABCo, owns a lavender farm that rests on a retired coal mine. The farm aims to restore the land and soil by growing lavender. Coal companies are legally obliged to restore the land they have mined, known as reclamation. ABCo is part of the reclamation. However, they also want to restore the community, it employs former coal miners and recovering addicts to harvest, pick, distill, and package the flowers. The farm grew two-fold since its inception.

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Big Ideas for Small-Town Revival

David Kidd

August 12, 2021 |

Governing |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Bellefontaine, Ohio

Small towns in Ohio are turning to a developer to revitalize their main streets in order to bring residents and businesses back. Small Nation is the brainchild of a local developer who put his struggling town back on the map as a tourist attraction. The company is taking its methods to more than a dozen towns that are benefitting from his expertise.

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Nonprofit Esperanza Threads helping refugees and immigrants stitch together their American dream

Danita Harris

August 05, 2021 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Esperanza Threads provides sewing training to refugees and immigrants so that they can find sustainable jobs and provide for their families. The students learn to make t-shirts, bags, and baby products, which are sold on the organization’s website. To emulate an actual job experience, the two-month long program pays the trainees a stipend for their time and their work. The group partners with resettlement agencies, shelters, rehabilitation facilities, and churches to reach new clients. The training has also had the effect of increasing hope and building self-esteem among the participants.

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California's Yurok Tribe grows solutions in soil of crises

Mackenzie Wilkes

August 04, 2021 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

The Yurok Tribe, located in Northern California, depends on fishing to sustain a living. However, a severe drought, the COVID-19 pandemic, and a crumbling highway severely affected the tribe. So, leaders are turning towards new ways of making an income: a community garden.

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For girls with mothers in prison, a summer camp offers much-needed support

Amna Nawaz

July 21, 2021 |

PBS NewsHour |

Broadcast TV News |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

For three days each summer, the Girls Embracing Mothers (GEM) camp near Dallas gives girls an escape from their daily reality of being denied a normal relationship with their incarcerated mothers. Founded by a lawyer whose own mother was incarcerated, GEM combines typical summer-camp fun with trust-building exercises. During camp and afterward, the girls become part of a community of peers who understand each other's trauma – which puts them at higher risk of dropping out of school, mental health problems, and homelessness – in a place where they need not feel shame for their mothers' status.

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Can ‘Bad Men' Ever Change?

Amelia Schonbek

July 21, 2021 |

The Cut |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

Among the many restorative justice programs in the U.S., the Domestic Violence Safe Dialogue program was one of the few to arrange face-to-face dialogue between survivors and men who had violently abused women. This form of surrogate dialogue – the pairings are between strangers – helps two people who want to change but can't do it alone. After extensive preparation and led by a facilitator, the meeting gives survivors a way to hear they were not to blame for the harm done to them, and for the men to admit responsibility and help someone else in ways that traditional punitive justice often cannot.

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Tourism in time of pandemic. How the Safar Project opened minds and borders

Isa Grassano

July 19, 2021 |

News48 |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Italy

An Italian travel writer and a publishing house partnered to recreate the experience of travel to new places, providing tourists with a virtual experience and tour guides with a source of income to replace their lost businesses when the pandemic shut down actual travel. Called the Safar project (Arabic for travel), the service charges 15 euros for one and a half hour Zoom tours featuring live explanations and interactions with local people, limited only by time zones and cellular reception. An average of 50 tourists have signed on with the seven tour guides who have been recruited so far.

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