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  • Conservationists Are Saving America's Prairies by Selling Them Off

    Marcello Rossi

    January 16, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oregon

    The Nature Conservancy uses conservation easements to protect prairie land in Oregon. These legal agreements allow landowners to sell their land to the conservancy but continue to use it for activities like farming and ranching.

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  • Crop of the future? More climate-hit Kenyans count on fish farming

    Caroline Wambui

    January 16, 2023 |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibingo

    The Kirinyaga county government is helping Kenyan farmers build fish ponds and supplying them with their first stock of fish and food in an effort to diversify their incomes while adding rainwater storage amid the drought.

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  • Sauce Milwaukee delivers meals the hard way, to anyone who needs them

    Joan Elovitz Kazan

    January 16, 2023 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    Sauce Milwaukee is a bicycle-based meal delivery service aimed at combating food scarcity. The organization feeds between 30 and 80 people a week and specializes in plant-based meals prepared with food donated by grocery stores, restaurants, and food banks.

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  • Project Zero, an Initiative that's reducing the number of out-of-school children in Lagos

    Blessing Oladunjoye Onochie Edward

    January 16, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    Lagos' Project Zero program worked with teachers, youth organizations, and other groups in the education space to reach out to parents of students who had dropped out of school during the pandemic. The program provided them with school kits including everything they needed to re-enroll, such as books, uniforms, shoes, and other supplies.

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  • Is plastic waste the building material of the future?

    Désiree Schneider

    January 16, 2023 |

    Unbias The News |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Indonesia, Bukit Lawang

    The use of plastic waste as an affordable building material is rising in popularity. One option is turning the waste into “Ecobricks” by tightly packing it into a bottle with a stick. A German organization called Project Wings pays locals in Bukit Lawang, Indonesia, to collect plastic and make bricks to be used for buildings.

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  • Yadda matasar garin Kara suka maganje rashin ruwa a al'umma

    Kamaldeen Muhammed

    January 14, 2023 |

    Arewa Radio 93.1 |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Mutanen Kara sun samu walwala daga tafiyan kilomita 21 kafun su samu ruwan sha. Masu bada ruwan suna karban N5 domin kula da pampun burtsatsen da kuma sayan main petrol na ganereto.

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  • These queer organizations are providing free binders to people in New Brunswick

    Maddy Mahoney

    January 13, 2023 |

    Xtra |

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    Response Location: Canada, Saint John, New Brunswick

    The LGBTQ2S+ organizations Chroma N.B. and QT Fatties work together to provide free chest binders to New Brunswick residents.

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  • Voluntary initiatives give hope to refugees on the Greek island of Samos

    Romain Chauvet

    January 13, 2023 |

    Equal Times |

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    Response Location: Greece

    The Skills Factory provides refugees and migrants a place to develop valuable skills, like phone repair, and express their creativity through activities like painting, photography, and furniture making. Not only does the Skills Factory provide a place for refugees to improve upon their skillsets, but it also offers a sense of community.

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  • Bishops visit migrant shelter in Mexico as US government seeks to limit record-high crossings

    Lynette Wilson

    January 13, 2023 |

    Episcopal News Service |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Nogales

    In Nogales, Mexico, La Casa de Misericordia y de Todas Las Naciones provides food, shelter, and education to migrants while they work through the process of applying for asylum in the United States.

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  • How Tucson's Southside Worker Center has helped undocumented workers earn fair wages over decades

    John Washington

    January 13, 2023 |

    Arizona Luminaria |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Tucson’s Southside Worker Center supports day laborers by offering a safe place for them to wait for employment and services like English-language workshops and connections to attorneys should they need help collecting past-due payments.

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