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He wouldn't cure only his son, so he got franchise for kids with brain disorder

Violet Ikong

March 31, 2023 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

The Dyslexia Foundation Nigeria aims to create awareness about dyslexia and ADHD through radio and TV talk shows, spreading information to encourage parents to seek out testing and training for their children with dyslexia. The Foundation also offers more affordable testing and brain training for children with dyslexia that helps to improve their learning ability over time.

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Cell Groups Helping to Reduce HIV among Rwandan Sex Workers

Gaston K. Rwaka

March 31, 2023 |

Panorama |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

Leadership groups formed by sex workers are helping to reduce HIV rates by traveling door to door and hosting meetings to educate people on HIV/AIDS awareness and how those with the disease can care for themselves, encouraging regular visits to clinics and antiretroviral therapy use. The program began in 2013 and now has 12,000 sex workers from around the country who are trained to provide aid and advocate for those with HIV.

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First Place, Spectrum Courtyard aim to close autism housing gap

Hayden Cilley, Maria Staubs

March 31, 2023 |

Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

First Place offers supportive housing for adults with autism and Down syndrome and those who are neurodivergent. Along with housing, First Place also offers a residential transition program that teaches skills like budgeting and management to prepare residents to live independently.

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Una escuela itinerante rescata la forja de hierro en los Andes venezolanos

María Fernanda Rodríguez

March 31, 2023 |

Historias que laten |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Venezuela

La Caravana Escuela, una escuela móvil de herrería que recorre comunidades remotas de los Andes venezolanos, ha transformado la vida de más de 15,000 personas al enseñar el arte ancestral de la forja a 405 campesinos, quienes han fabricado más de 12,000 herramientas que salvan cosechas, evitan la muerte de animales de trabajo y ofrecen una alternativa económica que frena la migración rural.

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Edo IDP Camp: Displaced by insurgents, they found refuge thousands of kilometres from home

Gbeenga Salau

March 31, 2023 |

The Guardian Nigeria News |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Uhogua, Edo

The Home for the Needy Foundation’s camp offers accommodations and support for people who are displaced in Nigeria due to terrorism. Along with housing, clothes, food, healthcare, and general support, those staying at the camp receive help and encouragement to continue their education, apply for college, or learn a trade.

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Cleveland non-profit sending surplus medical supplies to Ukraine

Courtney Gousman

March 31, 2023 |

WEWS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Local nonprofit Medwish collects surplus medical supplies and equipment to distribute to those in need. Medwish provides supplies both domestically and internationally and has significantly increased its efforts amidst the war in Ukraine. Since the start of the war Medwish has sent out more than 81 shipments to Ukraine or Poland, about 190,000 pounds of medical supplies in total.

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Is There Anything 'Solar Meadows' Can't Do?

Elizabeth Hewitt

March 31, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Ramsey, Minnesota

Pollinator-friendly solar arrays, also called solar meadows, feature meadows of native flowers around the solar panels instead of turf or gravel to support pollinators.

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Seattle set aside $100k for street sinks. Two years later, where are they?

Anna Patrick

March 31, 2023 |

The Seattle Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Several U.S. cities — and groups like the Clean Hands Collective — are obtaining funding to install public sinks to provide those experiencing homelessness access to better hygiene, thus combating the spread of disease. Some cities, like Portland, have even created portable toilets and other cities are installing public showers as well.

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This school district is allowing students, staff to take mental health days

Jenna Zibton

March 31, 2023 |

WKMG-TV |

Multi-Media |

Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Montgomery County, Virginia

Since 2019, students and staff at Montgomery County Public Schools have been able to take mental health days. They count as sick days, which are excused absences. Mental health days can be taken for a variety of reasons and allow people to take a break when they start feeling overwhelmed. When students take mental health days, staff and school counselors can then connect the family with resources and follow up with students to ensure they’re getting the help they need.

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How old coal mines can help the climate

Martha Henriques

March 30, 2023 |

BBC |

Video |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: England, Gateshead

In Gateshead, England, Lanchester Wines keeps its storage warehouse at a stable temperature year-round using geothermal heat from an abandoned coal mine nearby. The water that naturally floods the mine is geothermally heated below ground, then a heat pump system pulls that water to the surface to transfer that heat to the warehouse.

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