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  • Proyecto de Bienestar Mental

    October 17, 2022 |

    NEW/NUEVA OPINION |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    Fundado por dos recién graduados para ayudar a otros estudiantes hispanohablantes que sentían como extraños, Estruendo usa el apoyo de los compañeros como una intervención eficaz para ayudar con los sentimientos de depresión, el aislamiento y la idea de suicidio.

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  • How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

    October 13, 2022 |

    NewsWire NGR |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

    In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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  • At This Alexandria Community, The Challenges Of Mobile Home Ownership Are Thrown Into Sharp Relief

    October 12, 2022 |

    DCist |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    When an offer to buy the Harmony Place mobile home community in Alexandria, Virginia, came in, the residents worked with a nonprofit to make a counterproposal in an effort to turn it into a co-op. The seller did not accept the counterproposal, but it is now considered a template for other communities looking to do something similar.

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  • Waste workers on the frontlines to protect Apo Island from plastic threat

    October 11, 2022 |

    Rappler |

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    Response Location: Philippines, Apo Island

    In the Philippines the War on Waste - Negros Oriental started a zero waste project on Apo Island to reduce landfill use and improve waste management. Waste workers train residents how to sort their trash into categories and collect the sorted trash twice a week.

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  • Restoring Hawaiian fishponds revitalizes food systems and cultures

    October 03, 2022 |

    Prism |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    Hawaiians are restoring fishponds to working order with tasks like fixing rock walls and removing pollution to reimplement land practices of the past into daily life. These ponds consist of a rock wall, a gate for midsized fish to enter, and things the fish feed on like algae and coral.

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  • One Navajo community finally gets electricity after more than 10 years. It's still waiting for water.

    October 02, 2022 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, San Juan County, Utah

    Through a complex network of indigenous, governmental, religious and community resources, the Westwater community finally has electricity after a 20-year journey to bring the much-needed resource to the community.

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  • Successes Against Female Genital Mutilation in Enugu State

    October 01, 2022 |

    Dream Radio (92.5 FM) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    Residents of Enugu State, Nigeria, are putting a stop to female genital mutilation by spreading awareness about the dangers of the practice to communities and enacting laws against it.

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  • In Seattle, Community Land Trusts Are Allowing Low-Income Families To Buy A Home

    September 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Homestead Community Land Trust and the local Habitat for Humanity specialize in helping lower-income residents become homeowners. They have portfolios of homes available to lower-income residents who make less than 80% of the area median income. To date, the community land trust model has been implemented at a small scale relative to the need and Habitat plans to build almost 300 new homes in the coming years.

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  • Cars Are Vanishing from Paris

    September 23, 2022 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    Cars are Europe’s second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the leading killer of children. In recent years, Paris has implemented an array of measures to prioritize pedestrians, cyclists, and transit while reducing car use. As a result, car use has dropped about 45% since 1990, the use of public transit has risen by 30% and the share of cyclists has increased tenfold.

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  • How A Loan-To-Own Program In San Diego Is Boosting E-Bike Access

    September 23, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    Pedal Ahead provides low-income locals access to e-bikes at no initial cost, while agreeing to ride an average of five miles a day, track and share rides for a study, and secure their own bike insurance. If the participants successfully complete the program after two years, they own the bike. Since its launch, the organization distributed over 400 bicycles across the county.

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