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  • Sanbornton Connect(s) seniors aging in place

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Sanbornton, New Hampshire

    Sanbornton Connect is a local information exchange and social network for aging residents who share advice about meeting the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of living out their years independently in their own homes. The network started just before the pandemic, but quickly filled a vacuum left by the community's shutdown. Three dozen residents gather monthly on Zoom to trade tips and hear from experts. The goal is to provide personal connections in a sparsely populated town, and in a way that helps people plan before they're in a crisis as their health declines.

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  • Turtle conservation hits the SPOT in North Cyprus

    March 24, 2021 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Cyprus

    Thanks to efforts by the Society for the Protection of Turtles and a band of international volunteers, green and loggerhead turtle numbers in North Cyprus are rebounding. Last year, there were more than 2,400 nests counted, a 10-fold increase since their first survey in 1988. There are still challenges in saving these species due to plastic waste, but more locals are recognizing the importance of turtle conservation.

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  • How Taiwan triumphed over Covid as the UK faltered

    March 24, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Taiwan

    Taiwan was among the first countries to respond to COVID-19 with decisive actions that contained the virus’ impact on the population. Its 2003 experience with the SARS virus provided an established infrastructure to focus on eliminating the virus rather than its mitigating spread. In-bound travel was quickly regulated, a centralized office coordinated responses across sectors, and clear communication campaigns limited disinformation. Officials temporarily authorized “intrusive data collection measures” to track, trace, and isolate infections and masks were required and made widely available.

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  • Comment des bénévoles ont décidé d'aider les bergers azuréens contre les attaques de loups

    March 24, 2021 |

    Nice-Matin |

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    Response Location: France, Provence - Alpes - Côte d'Azur

    Dans les Alpes, pour aider les bergers à prévenir les attaques du prédateur sur les troupeaux de brebis dans les alpages, l'association Férus met à disposition des bénévoles pro-loup. En relayant les bergers dans la surveillance, ils offrent un peu de répit aux éleveurs, assurent une présence dissuasive. Une initiative qui renoue le dialogue entre pro-loup et agriculteurs souvent opposés au prédateur.

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  • Fighting the Mafia on Its Own Turf

    March 23, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Italy, Alto Belice Corleonese

    La Placido Rizzotto is one of nine farm co-ops in a network of properties that were seized from Sicily's Mafia and reused to create a productive alternative to the area's crime-based economy. Part of the Libera Terra (Freed Land) network, La Placido Rizzotto employs 22 people and its farm, winery, and tourist inn generated nearly $900,000 in sales in 2019. The government has confiscated thousands of properties in its effort to hurt the Mafia economically, but managing the properties remains a challenge that the "social use" movement addresses. Libera Terra's model has been copied by an Argentinian co-op.

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  • Guaranteed Income in Jackson Designed By Black Moms for Black Moms, Showing Results for Black Moms

    March 23, 2021 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    Beneficiaries of a guaranteed income program in Mississippi have received monthly cash payments that they are free to spend however they need to. Known as Magnolia Mothers, the program has allowed mothers to pay off debt, invest in business, avoid predatory loans, and consider educational opportunities that can help increase their income and quality of life.

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  • A village to nourish a child: FHI360 community structures provide nutrition for children in Borno

    March 23, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

    FHI360 is an initiative, supported by grassroots and international partnerships, providing healthcare to Internally Displaced Peoples in four locations. The nourishment of pregnant and lactating mothers, as well as their children, is a main focus. The group disseminates information and provides nutrition counseling in both one-on-one and community support group settings. They also offer vitamins and micronutrient supplements to women and children and create safe breastfeeding spaces and safe spaces for women who have been victims of gender-based violence.

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  • Babyl Rwanda bridging healthcare gap through mobile technology

    March 23, 2021 |

    Rwanda News Agency |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Babyl Health provides over 3,000 daily e-health consultations to bridge the gap between Rwandan providers and patients. The two million registered users can dial *811# to book an appointment and are triaged, with those needing more extensive care referred to one of the 483 partner clinics around the country. The country’s universal health coverage pays for 90% of the appointment and the patient pays 200 RWF. The platform works on an app available on most citizens’ phones and doesn’t require an internet connection. When needed, patients receive prescriptions via SMS that they can bring to a local pharmacy.

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  • Meet the Black Mambas, South Africa's all-female anti-poaching unit

    March 23, 2021 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    The Black Mambas are an all-female anti-poaching and ranger unit based in South Africa’s Balule Nature Reserve. They patrol on foot and by vehicle to remove bushmeat snares and look for evidence of illegal poaching activities. They also run the Bush Babies Environmental Education Programme, which teaches local school children about wildlife and conservation. The group combines anti-poaching enforcement with efforts to ensure local communities have food security and understand the economic and employment benefits of tourism as a way to protect wildlife. The Mambas are seen as role models within the community.

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  • How to reuse a demolished building

    March 23, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Switzerland, Winterthur

    A warehouse in Switzerland is being transformed into new creative workspaces. The catch: It’s being constructed out of reused building materials. About 70 percent of it is being made from old materials like wood floorboards, steel beams, and windows. A network of treasure hunters are on the lookout for used materials that can be used in constructing these buildings. The workspace is nearly complete and it already has tenants for all of the spaces. They were also able to cut the building’s carbon emissions in half.

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