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  • Charity's vision for a blind-free Indonesia

    June 24, 2017 |

    AzerNews |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, Sumatra

    A New Vision is a Singapore-based non-profit that provides free cataract surgery to impoverished people in Indonesia. Indonesia has one of the highest rates of blindness in the world, and 50 percent of these cases are due to cataracts, which can be reversed with a simple surgical procedure. A New Vision sets up free clinics in Indonesian villages and performs cataract surgery on locals and sends local health care providers to Nepal to be trained to perform these surgeries themselves and provide post-op care.

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  • Therapy for Everybody

    June 22, 2017 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Johnson City, Tennessee

    People living in rural areas often do not have access to therapy, additionally, the price of therapy can be expensive. In Tennessee, therapists now provide brief psychotherapy sessions within a health clinic, in order to serve the public faster and cheaper.

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  • Even the Insured Often Can't Afford Their Medical Bills

    June 18, 2017 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Massapequa, New York

    As the cost of care and medication continues to rise, many people find themselves underinsured and unprotected from a financial crisis when facing a medical emergency or ongoing treatment for a chronic disease. To address this issue, programs are working to assist people with paying for the costs of care and avoiding bankruptcy based on diagnosis, employment history, or individual pleas on crowdfunding sites. While these programs can make an impact, the need is much larger than the funding available and it is often difficult for patients to find and apply for these funds.

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  • In Sikkim, football is weaning drug users away from the dark

    June 15, 2017 |

    Livemint |

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    Response Location: India, Sikkim, Gangtok

    For many youth in India, illegal drugs are readily available, but rehab is socially stigmatized, government resources and information for narcotics are sparse, and there are few options for a user looking to get clean. A group of people in recovery in Sikkim has formed a football team as a means to recover, finding social support and exercise that is proven to aid in sustainable rehabilitation from drug use.

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  • Mobile “CityTree” Installations Use Moss to Clean Air in Urban Areas

    June 12, 2017 |

    Futurism |

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    Response Location: Germany, Berlin, Berlin

    CityTree doesn't resemble the typical tree, but it provides the environmental benefit of 275: this structure, designed for urban landscaping by "Green City Solutions," filters air, cools the surrounding environment and removes CO2 and harmful air pollutants. As climate change worsens our air quality, these structures have proven to monitor and combat the air pollutants in cities all over the world.

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  • Gender equality key to development

    June 09, 2017 |

    Anglican Journal |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Masasi

    The Primate’s World Relief and Development Fund (PWRDF) is working to implement maternal and newborn child health programs in East Africa. Though the project has incorporated a wide-range of initiatives, many of them have relied on a single underlying principle that has proven to be effective: the empowerment of local women.

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  • Access to clean water improves health in rural Tanzania

    June 08, 2017 |

    Anglican Journal |

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    Response Location: Tanzania, Ndomoni, Lindi Region

    In rural villages like Ndomoni, access to water is paramount to community development, and locals are the first to recognize that other issues such as maternal health cannot be addressed until there is clean drinking water. The installation of a central borehole well is not only providing the village access to water, is has freed up the many hours a day women and girls spent fetching water from other distant sources, allowing them to stay in school, attend to the health of the family, and pursue other business.

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  • The 'moss wall' that helps cities breathe

    June 07, 2017 |

    CNN |

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    Response Location: Germany

    Air pollution is a major health risk, and growing in severity as more of the population moves to urban (more polluted) areas. Several university friends from Germany developed a "CityTree," which filters toxic pollutants from the air with moss that can be installed around cities.

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  • If You See Dirty Water, Don't Just Gripe. Talk To The Cloud!

    June 07, 2017 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: India, Delhi

    Scientists and activists in India are training citizens to collect information on water issues like contamination — and upload it so it can be used to push for change.

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  • How sexual assistants are helping disabled Czechs fulfil their ‘right to sex'

    June 07, 2017 |

    Euronews |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    An organization in the Czech Republic has hired "sexual assistants to help disabled Czechs explore their sexuality and satisfy their sexual needs" as part of an initiative to decrease the stigma around people with disabilities and the topic of sexuality. The initiative has received some community pushback but has gained support from the government’s Interior Ministry – and in other Western countries, some governments have gone so far as to also offer financial support.

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