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  • Migrantes en Argentina: la solidaridad como única vía

    Los venezolanos que han estado viviendo en Argentina durante años logran recolectar dinero y ayudar a los nuevos inmigrantes de Venezuela durante la crisis pandémica. El sistema de donaciones ayuda a los recién llegados a integrarse en una realidad más difícil para los trabajadores informales, debido a las medidas nacionales de confinamiento.

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  • Bankers say PPP loans saved 40,000 jobs in New Hampshire

    The Paycheck Protection Program, a program launched by the federal government to help small businesses survive the coronavirus pandemic, has helped the community in New Hampshire save about 40,000 jobs. Although not all small businesses are keen to take the loan because of the strict stipulations that must be met for it to be forgivable, overall, 7,400 loans have been approved so far.

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  • As pandemic continues, community nursing effort looks to grow in the Upper Valley

    In the New England region of the U.S., community nurses are working to fill a void in health care during the coronavirus pandemic for those who may require medical attention but do not need hospital care. As described by the co-director of the Upper Valley Community Nursing Project, "the last thing the health care system needs right now is a lot of people in the emergency room because there have been complications of their chronic diseases, or they’ve fallen or they have problems with their medications."

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  • Was wir von den Toten lernen können

    Verstorbene obduzieren, die Corona hatten – ist das eine gute Idee? Ja, finden Pathologen. Denn diese Menschen könnten uns noch viel über das Virus verraten. Schon bei HIV oder Hepatitis C hat die Pathologie dabei geholfen, die Viren und ihre Wege im Körper zu verstehen.

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  • How a Group of Political Novices Ended Gerrymandering in Michigan

    Voters Not Politicians (VPN) is a grassroots initiative that, with the help over 4,000 volunteers who knocked on 125,000 doors and canvassed at public events, collected the 400,000 signatures needed to get an anti-gerrymandering initiative on the statewide ballot. The initiative passed with 61% of the vote in 2018 and requires district boundaries be drawn by average citizens. The group’s founder also started The People, another group to help residents in other states apply VPNs model to stop gerrymandering. So far, residents in Florida, Virginia, and New Hampshire are at various stages of applying the model.

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  • An impromptu drive-through at a Sikh temple to feed neighbors now helps thousands daily

    The Sikh community in Riverside, California—starting with the United Sikh Mission and the Riverside Sikh Temple—has provided thousands of masks and more than 40,000 homemade hot meals to healthcare professionals and anyone who needs it. They also have sent more than 1,000 meals a day to nursing homes in nearby counties and deliver meals to four local hospitals. The efforts have received community funding, and they have no plans to stop anytime soon because, "there are no days off for hunger."

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  • The fire we need

    The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network works with a group of other similar networks with the shared goal of promoting prescribed fire in a positive and safe manner that will help local ecosystems and minimize the risk of unintentional wildfires. Since controlled burning has been part of Indigenous communities for much of their long history, there is an opportunity for Indigenous leaders and local fire experts to learn from each other.

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  • Coronavirus en Islandia: pruebas masivas y gratuitas, una apuesta difícil de replicar en el mundo

    Este artículo explicativo analiza cómo Islandia controló la pandemia por el COVID-19 usando medidas especiales: confinamiento parcial, pruebas masivas a todo el país sin cerrar fronteras para el turismo y viajes de civiles. El Gobierno se alió con un laboratorio de genética líder en Europa para ser el país que más tests ha realizado a su población (17% de los habitantes).

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  • Meet the Women Who Detonate Land Mines in Colombia's Former War Zones

    In Colombia, the organization Humanity & Inclusion has hired women in local areas like Caquetá to help demine formerly war-torn lands. In areas with violent histories, trust is crucial, thus the hiring of local residents who can gain community trust and access more information about where landmines might be. But with the risk of instability, the future of this work has yet to be determined.

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  • How San Francisco's Chinatown Avoided Covid-19 Panic

    It wasn't until first cases of coronavirus were recorded in the United States that San Francisco and other U.S. cities took action to mitigate the spread, but in Chinatown, precautions started much earlier and the preparations seem to have worked. With only three recorded cases in Chinatown, the residents credit trust in authorities, community-driven communications, heightened hygiene practices, and the local Chinese Hospital, "which has strong ties to the community it serves."

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