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  • Pandemic Disruptions Created an Opportunity for Organic School Meals in California

    The West Contra Costa Unified School District saw loosened regulations during the pandemic as an opportunity to tie up with local organic farms and producers and ensure hundred percent organic meals to students from low-income families. This is part of a growing effort in the state that recognizes school lunch as a way to not just provide the healthiest food to students but also to support a more sustainable food system that helps address climate change.

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  • A Survival Tool In Transgender Community, Breast Binders Are In High Demand

    Health Care Advocates International’s free breast binder program provides binders to transgender youths by donating them to local clinics or paying to ship them. The binders help prevent body dysphoria triggers by creating a flat-chest appearance.

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  • A Faith-based Network Equips Youths For Peace In Violence Prone-Jos

    The Africa Faith and Justice Network trains young people on de-radicalization and collaboration efforts to end violent religious conflicts in the area. The Network teaches youth how to use dialogue and be more tolerant of different groups in an effort to avoid violence.

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  • How Hong Kong protects people from dangerous landslides

    After deadly landslides in the 1970s, Hong Kong has pioneered a successful landslide risk mitigation approach. Geotechnical engineers have cataloged over 60,000 slopes and upgraded those that needed it. The most successful aspect of the mitigation approach has been an early warning system that uses a combination of data sources to determine the risk of landslides and broadcasts warnings over TV, radio, and other public sources. Deaths from landslides have dropped substantially and it has inspired similar early warning systems around the world.

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  • Heat wave caused bees to ejaculate to death. Could Styrofoam 'protection' help?

    As a warming planet continues to affect bee colonies, a bee farmer in Canada is experimenting with different ways to help the bees survive. By using a polystyrene cover, she was able to drop the average temperature in the hive by 3.8 degrees Celsius. While this type of insulation won’t be able to completely protect the colonies, it’s a simple solution that can help them get through extreme temperatures.

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  • Reinvent Utah farms to save our soil and Great Salt Lake?

    Farmers in Utah practice no-till farming to improve soil health and water retention amid an ongoing drought.

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  • Faith based group offers hope to girls suffering vesicovaginal fistula

    Medical Missionaries of Mary is a Christian faith-based organization that works to complement the government's efforts of helping those experiencing vesicovaginal fistula by providing access to surgery for free. The group also addresses stigma around the condition and helps create a sense of community for patients.

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  • When the Doctor is Just a Truck Away

    The MTN Y’ello Doctor initiative is a medical outreach program that targets underserved communities via mobile clinic trucks. The mobile clinic truck increases healthcare access, helps with healthcare costs, and provides services like treatment for malaria, vaccinations, and screening for other conditions. The trucks provide healthcare to anyone who needs it but has a focus on children and expecting mothers. So far, a total of 97,844 patients have been treated for various ailments thanks to the mobile clinics.

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  • A new fund seeks to close the racial wealth gap by helping Black families buy homes in metro Denver

    Black families that make less than $140,000 a year can qualify for down payment assistance to purchase a home in Denver. The Deerfield for Black Wealth is attempting to close the racial wealth gap that has remained pervasive due to a lack of generational wealth. Owning real estate creates housing stability as well as an increase in family wealth and opportunity, which leads to economic mobility.

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  • Are community jobs the solution for Missouri's sheltered workshops?

    Even as several states banned subminimum wages for disabled workers and adopted versions of the "employment-first" legislation in the country, the Center for Human Services became an anomaly when it closed its sheltered workshop programs in Missouri where they find immense support. In the last five years, the non-profit has focused, instead, on helping adults with disabilities gain employment in traditional jobs in their own communities and earn minimal wages.

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