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South Siders Organizing To Help New Migrant Neighbors At School-Turned-Shelter: 'Woodlawn Is A Welcoming Community'

Noah Glasgow Maxwell Evans

February 27, 2023 |

Block Club Chicago |

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Response Location: United States, Woodlawn, Illinois

A closed school was converted into a shelter for some of the nearly 200 migrants arriving in Chicago. In tandem, local residents and faith-based groups started the Chicago 4 All initiative to help provide them with the necessary resources to settle in.

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A tested solution for helping teens who are homeless, or living on the brink

Sofia Jeremias

February 07, 2023 |

The Salt Lake Tribune |

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Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

Teen centers are spaces in high schools that provide youth with a place to call home if they’re experiencing housing insecurity. They also provide access to resources like food, clothes and counseling services. Several area high schools have opened their own teen centers, equipped with showers, washing machines, dryers, study rooms and trusted adults they can confide in who help them when they’re in crisis or seeking guidance.

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Why Asian Americans Are Moving to NYC's East Harlem

Amy Yee

February 03, 2023 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States, East Harlem, New York

To help and serve the large and growing Asian population in East Harlem, several organizations are emerging. One such is Asian Americans For Equality, which partnered with Union Settlement to start offering Asian food aid. The groups run a monthly food pantry that provides Asian produce and other groceries to those in need, ensuring the population is receiving culturally-relevant foods.

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Eat-Learn-Play: Bridging the Nutrition and Education Gap for Wassa's Displaced Children

Thelma Chioma Abeku Ikemefuna Igwe

January 30, 2023 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Wassa

The Transitional Learning Center provides children ages four to 14 with free education, school supplies, and one meal per day to not only encourage school attendance but to also address the issue of malnutrition. The beauty of the Center is that it’s a semi-permanent structure that can be moved to different locations where there may be school children in need. Since the Center was formed, over nine million students from 54,619 schools have benefited from the program.

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Austin Eats: Community Takes Action to End 'Food Apartheid' There

Michelle Meyer

January 30, 2023 |

StreetWise |

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Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

Over 20 organizations in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago work together under the name Austin Eats to improve healthy food access with food pantries, community gardens, and grocery stores.

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Sauce Milwaukee delivers meals the hard way, to anyone who needs them

Joan Elovitz Kazan

January 16, 2023 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sauce Milwaukee is a bicycle-based meal delivery service aimed at combating food scarcity. The organization feeds between 30 and 80 people a week and specializes in plant-based meals prepared with food donated by grocery stores, restaurants, and food banks.

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Hunger and malnutrition are increasing, but a group is turning the tide

Blessing Oladunjoye

January 11, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ayobo, Lagos

The Lagos Food Bank Initiative works to address hunger and malnutrition among those in need and reduce food waste. It offers several programs including temporary food assistance, nutritious meal interventions, and family farming among others. Since it was founded in 2016, the organization has expanded its efforts and now has 17,000 volunteers across the country and has helped more than two million people.

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Medicaid Is a New Tool to Expand Healthy Food Access

Lisa Held

December 15, 2022 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

Project Bread is a local food-assistance organization that provides medically-tailored meals to people in need, specifically those with diseases or ailments that worsen with poor nutrition. Organization coordinators can send grocery store gift cards and kitchen supplies or sign the patient up for cooking classes or nutrition counseling. In its first two years, the program served 5,000 patients, and a recent evaluation found that 25% were no longer food insecure after participating for six months.

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Saying it with soup in Lanesborough: We want to ease the isolation of our elders

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

December 12, 2022 |

The Berkshire Eagle |

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Response Location: United States, Lanesborough, Massachusetts

The Community Produce Program organized by the Heart & Soil Collective delivers weekly produce to seniors in need. Not only does the program increase food access, but it also provides seniors with community, wellness checks, and friendships that they struggle to access otherwise.

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Empty schools! Solutions for absenteeism.

Kimberly Gill

December 07, 2022 |

Solutionaries |

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Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

Detroit Public Schools is tackling chronic absenteeism by addressing the underlying reasons students are absent. Attendance agents work with families to address their needs and connect them to necessary resources like food, transportation, and school supplies.

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