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  • Over 3,000 Navajo Homes Receive Accurate Addresses

    April 04, 2024 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: Navajo Nation, United States, Utah

    To improve voting access for residents of the Navajo Nation, who often don’t have official addresses, the Rural Utah Project partnered with Google to assign and distribute Plus Codes, more accurate address coordinates that use longitude and latitude. The organization has since registered nearly 2,000 new voters using the Plus Codes, and the new addresses have resulted in other unexpected benefits, such as improved response time for emergency responders and better access to delivery services.

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  • Volunteers make big impact on African healthcare

    March 31, 2024 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    Local community health volunteers make healthcare more accessible in rural areas by providing services like ambulance taxi rides, which quickly transport people in hard-to-reach areas to clinics when there’s an emergency. These volunteers also share medical information to promote healthy behaviors among those living in villages. There are currently about 100,000 volunteers serving rural communities across the country.

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  • Make School Food Great Again

    March 26, 2024 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Red Rabbit provides nutritious, culturally diverse lunches to students at two local schools. The program promotes cross-cultural exchange among students by exposing them to different dishes from various cultures while ensuring they’re getting healthy meals that hit all the major food groups, as most students get the majority of their meals at school.

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  • Where can Minnesota students access free mental-health care?

    March 26, 2024 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Hennepin County, Minnesota

    Public schools in Hennepin County have offered free school-based mental healthcare services to students since 2000, with the number of schools offering care continuously growing. Across the 263 Hennepin County schools that have implemented school-based mental health care, suicide attempts have decreased by 15%.

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  • Mediación para derribar las barreras lingüísticas y culturales en salud

    March 22, 2024 |

    Revista Haz |

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    Response Location: Spain, Madrid

    Hasta la crisis migratoria ‘de los cayucos’ no existían mediadores interculturales en salud en España. En este marco surge el Servicio de Interpretación y Mediación Intercultural sociosanitaria de Salud Entre Culturas, uno de los pocos presenciales, integrado en un hospital. Su objetivo, junto con los teléfonos de interpretación idiomática, es echar abajo las barreras lingüísticas y socioculturales en la sanidad española.

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  • Can a 'prescription' for free fruits and vegetables improve health? Studies say yes.

    March 21, 2024 |

    NBC News |

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    Response Location: United States, Tulsa, Oklahoma

    Produce prescription programs like FreshRx Oklahoma and Recipe4Health are taking off as ways to combat heart problems and other diseases like diabetes. These programs provide free fruits and veggies to participants, helping increase access to healthy foods and address food insecurity. Research over the course of a year shows Recipe4Health participants significantly lowered their cholesterol and food security rates among participants dropped from 59% to 48%.

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  • Volusia County couple offers clean start to homeless residents

    March 21, 2024 |

    Daytona Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

    A mobile shower facility called God’s Bathouse stops at churches in Florida to provide a safe environment for people experiencing homelessness to take a hot shower and address their health maintenance needs.

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  • Nonprofits Successfully Challenge Red State Restrictions on Abortion

    March 20, 2024 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    In response to varying abortion bans across states, nonprofit organizations are emerging to help women in states with strict abortion laws access the care they need. Nonprofits like the Center for Reproductive Rights, Northwest Abortion Access Fund and Indigenous Idaho Alliance provide women with free abortion pills, help them travel out of state for care and even challenge local courts attempting to pass strict trigger laws.

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  • 19 Years On, Nigeria's School Feeding Program Still Falls Short

    March 20, 2024 |

    The Solutions Paper |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu State

    The National Home Grown School Feeding program provides food to schoolchildren to support their health and education while simultaneously supporting local cooks and farmers. During its operation, the program reached millions of students across 3o states and led to a 20% increase in primary school enrollment.

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  • The Farm at Penny Lane grows hope through therapy programs

    March 19, 2024 |

    The Daily Tar Heel |

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    Response Location: United States, Chatham, North Carolina

    The Farm at Penny Lane offers a safe space for people with mental illnesses to participate in activities such as gardening, art therapy and animal-assisted therapy to supplement traditional mental health treatment. Follow-up evaluations with participants indicate they feel more peaceful and inspired after participating on the farm and building meaningful relationships with others who share their experiences.

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