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Utiliser le numérique pour faciliter l'accès à l'éducation: le modèle d'ecole au Sénégal

Matteo Fraschini Koffi

December 14, 2021 |

StopBlabla |

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Response Location: Senegal

Utiliser le numérique pour réduire les inégalités d’accès à une éducation de qualité. Telle est l’ambition de l’Ecole au Sénégal, School in Senegal (EAS), une plateforme de cours disponible en ligne gratuitement visant à aider élèves et enseignants. Aujourd'hui, elle compte 103 000 anciens élèves, 54 professeurs et plus de 3 000 cours en ligne.

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'A clear winner': How education in prison can help people after release

Paul Cuno-Booth

December 13, 2021 |

Granite State News Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Correctional education opportunities provide a number of benefits: Skills, self-esteem, job opportunities, and lower chances of going back to prison. Educational opportunities for people serving prison time decrease the possibility of recidivism by 30 percent.

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This NGO's Strategy Helps Ex-convicts Avoid Repeating Crime

Ekpali Saint

December 13, 2021 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

In the nine years since its founding, Dream Again Prison and Youth Initiative has helped more than 2,000 incarcerated Nigerians prepare for success in work and life after they leave prison. Using mental health support, vocational training, and financial aid after graduates leave prison, the program works in six prisons in an effort to combat the country's rising recidivism rate. Much of the focus is on helping would-be entrepreneurs start their own businesses rather than rely on existing businesses that may not want to give the formerly incarcerated a second chance.

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Room for everyone: Tribal college expands its reach

Marisa Agha

December 13, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation, United States, Arizona

Tohono O’odham Community College in Arizona shifted its courses online during the pandemic and offered them for free to any Native student, expanding the tribal college's reach beyond the Tohono O’odham Nation for the first time. The college saw its enrollment jump by 96 percent — the largest increase of any tribal college in 2020 — and now serves students representing 55 tribal nations.

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Big Steps Forward: Cameroon's Multi-Sector Approach to Reducing Pregnancy-Related Deaths

Leocadia Bongben

December 13, 2021 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Cameroon

Several initiatives, from family planning and birth assistance education to improving access to hospital care, are reducing maternal and infant deaths. The Motor Ambulance initiative helps women get to hospitals in emergencies by providing 165 tricycles designed to navigate difficult terrain. The ambulances are run and maintained by local communities. Another program improving access to care is a health voucher system that helps women to pay for hospital deliveries. Women buy an affordable delivery kit that provides hospital staff with everything they need, including if there are complications.

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Mapping Lead Contamination in the Granite State

Paul Cuno-Booth Kathie Ragsdale John M. Bassett

December 13, 2021 |

Granite State News Collaborative |

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Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

Through education, public policy and grant programs, New Hampshire is working on decreasing the number of children with elevated blood lead levels. In 2016, the state wanted to improve lead-testing rates and over the year, they conducted 25 training sessions reaching more than 300 medical professionals, which led to 2,100 more children being tested than the previous year. Interest in lead-abatement grant programs by landlords and homeowners has also increased.

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To clean up East Baltimore, this mentor shores up buildings – and youths

Dwight A. Weingarten

December 13, 2021 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

A community organization focuses on the wellbeing of young people in order to prevent violence. Members are mentored and taught martial arts by founder, Munir Bahar. Young residents also help clean up their neighborhood, hold food drives, and lead anti-violence marches.

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How role-playing helps police do their job without firing their guns

Caren Chesler

December 12, 2021 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: United States

Training courses based on role-playing that supplement classroom teaching have helped some police departments reduce incidents of unnecessary use of lethal force. In response to protests over police shootings, more departments are using a variety of courses that train officers to seek alternatives to shooting when they perceive a threat. The most expensive and intensive course uses live actors. Others use video and virtual reality headsets. The key to effectiveness is the realism of a training that lets officers repeatedly act out the lessons so that they become second nature.

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The priests navigating Colombia's conflict zones

Megan Janetsky

December 12, 2021 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Colombia, Chocó Department

Shielded by cultural deference to the Catholic church, Colombian clergy venture into conflict zones to document the clashes, provide aid, and mediate disputes between civilians and armed guerrilla groups. Their efforts have helped response organizations access difficult-to-reach areas and drawn renewed attention to the crises.

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La Salle San Luis: un espacio para las altas capacidades

Néstor Rodríguez

December 12, 2021 |

Noticias De Gipuzkoa |

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Response Location: Spain

Como respuesta a la atención especializada que puden necesitar estudiantes con altas capacidades, un colegio crea un programa que les permite profundizar en las materias que llevan día a día en las clases con los demás estudiantes, de manera que fomentan sus capacidades y evitan la distracción, el aburrimiento y problemas de salud mental.

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