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  • A Network Of Traditional Leaders Is Helping Kaduna Communities Find Missing Children

    May 06, 2024 |

    News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Rigasa, Kaduna

    A rural village has instituted several WhatsApp groups to communicate and help find children when they go missing. Each ward has a WhatsApp group and a system in place to care for children until they are reunited with their families, all for free. From January 2024 to May, over 20 missing children have been found and reunited with their families.

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  • How Mexico's Abortion Activists Care for Each Other—and Themselves

    May 06, 2024 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Monterrey

    Necesito Abortar is a group of 20 “acompañantes” (companions) who provide support and education throughout the abortion process. The group provides counseling, in-person and virtual accompaniment and follow-up care for people seeking at-home abortions. The group also works to take care of its volunteers by hosting annual meetings for volunteers to connect, and encouraging them to make time for self care.

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  • Inspired by Laudato Si', Catholics in Bangladesh work to protect environment

    May 06, 2024 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh, Dhaka

    Catholics in Bangladesh are working to increase environmental conservation efforts in the country through grassroots initiatives that encourage practices like tree planting and reducing litter.

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  • Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter gets creative with business sponsorship program

    May 01, 2024 |

    The Oglethorpe Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Danielsville, Georgia

    The Madison Oglethorpe Animal Shelter launched a business sponsorship program that allows businesses to sponsor animals by paying their adoption fees in an effort to make the adoption process easier and help the animals find their permanent homes. So far, the program has led to nine adoptions in just three months.

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  • Inside the exquisite Tibetan monasteries salvaged from climate change

    April 30, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: China, Mustang, Tibet

    A team of Western art conservationists trained a community in Tibet how to restore historic monasteries that were crumbling due to the effects of climate change. Over decades of restoration work, the team sparked a cultural renaissance in the region and is providing economic opportunities for women.

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  • Donaciones solidarias en Cuba

    April 25, 2024 |

    La Joven Cuba |

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    Response Location: Cuba

    Para reducir las dificultades de acceso a medicamentos e insumos médicos en Cuba, muchas personas usan y apoyan redes o grupos de intercambio y donación. Por un lado, se evidencia la capacidad de organización, la solidaridad y la búsqueda de alternativas de los cubanos dentro y fuera de Cuba. Por otro, es un esfuerzo oneroso con impacto limitado en un escenario que empeora por días.

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  • Chicago student group organized "peace talk" forums for conversations on Israel and Gaza

    April 24, 2024 |

    Chalkbeat Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Student organizers with Chi Youth 4 Justice facilitated PzTalks, a series of forums at Chicago high schools to encourage conversation around Israel and Gaza and build bridges between Jewish and Arab American students. The events were held at 10 public high schools around the city and were tailored to each school’s population and priorities, with some drawing on restorative justice techniques to encourage open, respectful dialogue.

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  • A City Tries to Measure the Violence It's Preventing

    April 22, 2024 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

    A violence prevention program in Baton Rouge is working to reduce gun violence and help mothers and those affected cope and move forward in a healthy way. The street team with the non-profit C.H.A.N.G.E supports grieving families, provides targeted interventions and community engagement efforts around gun violence, and collects data to measure their work’s impact over time.

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  • Taking the classroom outside: How nature is teaching valuable lessons in Uganda

    April 18, 2024 |

    Farm Radio International |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kikandwa

    The residents of Kikandwa, Uganda, came together to create the Kikandwa Environmental Association to implement nature-based solutions in their community. The solutions are combatting climate change and generating more income than options with a negative environmental impact. For example, many people traded cutting trees to make charcoal for selling seedlings at the local tree nursery.

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  • Watanda: This local scheme helped struggling Nigerian Muslims end Ramadan fasting with feasts

    April 16, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Watanda is a bulk-shopping system that helps ensure low-income families have access to meat during the Eid-al-Fitr celebration following Ramadan. In Watanda groups, members contribute money to a collective fund to purchase cattle that is then split between all the contributors. Amidst the rising cost of cattle, Watanda groups help ensure families have food on the table and can still participate in celebrations.

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