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  • Enabled to Enable: How NGO is changing narrative for PwDs in Cross River state

    Enabled to Enable provides vocational skills training to disabled individuals. So far, the skills training has reached about 129 women and girls, empowering them to find jobs and even start their own businesses despite their disabilities.

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  • A new way to pay for college

    Income share agreements provide students a new way to pay for college. They receive the money they need by agreeing to give the school a percentage of their future earnings for a set number of years after graduation.

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  • Dallas parents flocking to schools that pull students from both rich and poor parts of town

    Transformation Schools in Dallas, Texas, admit students by lottery to combat concentrated poverty and declining enrollment with more socioeconomically diverse students.

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  • In a New Orleans ward ravaged by climate change, leaders nurture the next generation

    Founded in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the Center for Sustainable Engagement & Development program teaches young locals and interns about environmental science and conservation practices to prepare them for natural disasters.

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  • An evolving role for colleges: Training former substance abusers to be part of treatment teams

    The City University of New York’s College of Staten Island is among a handful but growing number of colleges that are offering peer advocate training programs to former substance abusers. These certified trainings are enabling vulnerable adults to pursue higher education, acquire skills, and use their experience to not just find employment but also support patients with recovery.

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  • Nigerian advocate who launched mobile app to tackle GBV

    The CampusPal mobile app is a safe, confidential place for students at colleges in Nigeria to report cases of sexual assault and gender-based violence.

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  • The Nigerian school with a radical idea: Teaching Boko Haram's kids

    Founded in the midst of ongoing violent conflict, the Future Prowess Islamic Foundation offers education to children and orphans from families fighting on both sides of the war between Boko Haram insurgents and the Nigerian government. With this inclusive approach, the organization has so far averted being targeted by Boko Haram, successfully keeping roughly 2,200 children in school without interruption during the peak of the insurgency.

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  • How promise programs can offer more than just college affordability

    Promise Programs provide free college educations in the high school graduate’s home state. Along with coaching and other methods of financial support, the initiatives have seen success in increasing graduation rates. The first promise program was implemented in Michigan. Since then, dozens of other states have followed suit.

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  • HAPPY GOES TO SCHOOL

    In a community where economic barriers prevent children from getting an education, the Oakbridge Foundation provides free, quality primary school education for out of school children.

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  • School on Wheels delivers tutoring – and hope – for homeless students

    The nonprofit School on Wheels pairs students experiencing homelessness with tutors to help them catch up, and stay caught up, in school.

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