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Amidst Lean Resources, this Foundation Devises Means to Secure Future for Poor Children in Taraba

Yahuza Abdulkadir

June 16, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Sabon Gari, Taraba State

The Umayya Danejo Foundation provides financial support to help out-of-school children enroll in classes and complete exit examinations. The organization also runs a food aid program and has a partnership with tailoring centers where students can learn hands-on trade skills.

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How one organization is shaping future adults in Nigeria

Kehinde Ogunronbi

June 16, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos, Lagos

To prevent youth from participating in dangerous activities after school, the Crystal Innovation Center holds programs that provide secondary school students with soft and hard skills training to prepare them for future employment. The program runs three times a week and teaches skills like goal-setting, overcoming peer pressure, fashion designing, computer literacy, and cooking.

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College felt impossible to this student in foster care. Then NYC offered to pay.

Reema Amin

June 15, 2023 |

Chalkbeat New York |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

To help make college more accessible, New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services provides students in the foster care system with room and board, a $60 daily stipend, and up to $15,000 for tuition.

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This Nigerian School is Bridging Digital Gender Gap in Northern Nigeria

Muhammad Auwal Ibrahim

June 14, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria

The Nigeria-based Bauchi Feminist Internet School is bridging the gender gap in digital literacy and safety in the country. The school teaches youth, primarily young women, how to safely use the internet and encourages them to advocate for change.

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Can e-voting revolutionize Nigeria's democracy? Lessons from FUOYE campus elections

Peace Oladipo

June 13, 2023 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Oye, Ekiti

Following violent disruption during campus elections in 2021, Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, implemented an electronic voting process which allowed students to cast their ballots online via a university portal. Some students who had previously abstained from participating in elections due to safety concerns were able to vote, but the platform also experienced technical glitches and fears around cyberattacks, which left some students unable to cast their ballots.

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First cohort completes new nsyilxcən degree at UBCO: ‘our language is very strong'

Aaron Hemens

June 13, 2023 |

IndigiNews |

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Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

The first eight graduates of a new program run by the University of British Columbia Okanagan, the En’owkin Centre, and the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology received their bachelor's of nsyilxcən language fluency degrees. The program is one of the ways the syilx Nation is revitalizing their language, which is critically endangered. Students spend their first two years learning from fluent speakers in the community and the second two years working on a capstone project that includes an internship.

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How a Salina school program helps connect students with mental health services

Kendrick Calfee

June 11, 2023 |

The Salina Journal |

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Response Location: United States, Salina, Kansas

The Mental Health Intervention Team at Salina Public Schools makes mental health care more accessible by using grant money to hire school liaisons to assist and provide mental health services to students at school. Within the 2022-2023 academic year alone, 635 students were served and 76% of them improved their school attendance, while 65% saw improvement in their academic performance.

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Immersive Language School Renews Generational Dreams of Cherokee Culture

Lynn Liu, Pingping Yin

June 10, 2023 |

Native News Online |

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Response Location: Cherokee Nation, United States, Cherokee, North Dakota

New Kituwah Academy Elementary provides immersive language education for members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, helping to keep the band’s language and culture alive. Students speak exclusively in Cherokee until third grade and then use both English and Cherokee throughout the school day to build proficiency in both languages.

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Learning to live with — and love — bears and eagles in Colombia's cloud forest

James Hall

June 08, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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Response Location: Colombia

A group of conservationists created Techo de Agua to engage communities in Colombia with conservation efforts for endangered species like the black-and-chestnut speckled eagles and spectacled bears. The nonprofit educates locals about the importance of these animals and reduces human-wildlife conflict with individualized solutions.

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School clinics can improve students' worsening mental health. So why aren't there more?

Patrick Wall

June 08, 2023 |

Chalkbeat National |

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Response Location: United States

School-based health centers provide free services including flu shots, physicals, contraceptive care and reproductive education, talk therapy and behavioral health care to students. Research has found that these school-based clinics boost vaccination rates, reduce hospital visits, lower rates of teen pregnancy and depression and improve grades and attendance levels, all while reducing disparities and making healthcare more accessible.

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