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  • Una aplicación gratuita brinda asistencia en emergencias con una red de voluntarios capacitados en primeros auxilios

    Según la American Heart Association, diez minutos es el tiempo necesario para salvar a una persona que atraviesa un evento cardíaco mientras llega la ambulancia. En ciudades de América Latina, los servicios de emergencia tienen un tiempo de respuesta promedio de veinte o veinticinco minutos. La plataforma Helpers ha logrado conectar de manera gratuita a más de 3.300 usuarios que necesitan ayuda durante una urgencia, con voluntarios entrenados para intervenir hasta que llega la asistencia profesional.

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  • How cancer patients are getting funding for treatment in Nigeria

    Project Pink Blue helps cancer patients access treatment by raising funds, training medical personnel, and connecting patients in need with sponsors through their Adopt a Patient initiative. Project Pink Blue has also advocated for better healthcare policies in the state and even provides jobs to cancer survivors to help integrate them back into society.

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  • How employer benefits can ease burden on people caring for elderly loved ones

    Companies like Sanofi are beginning to partner with organizations like Bright Horizons to offer eldercare benefits to employees, like in-home adult care services. The benefit allows Bright Horizons to dispatch care workers to a person’s home and the company administering the benefit subsidizes the majority of the cost. Providing eldercare benefits reduces the burden on employees, allowing them to be more present at work. Since the pandemic, Sanofi has seen a 20% increase in the number of employees registering for the eldercare benefit program.

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  • How honesty may be the best policy for medical errors

    Healthcare providers are using an approach called Communication and Optimal Resolution to acknowledge medical errors and work towards a solution with open communication instead of through court hearings.

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  • Combining Old and New: Aquaponics Opens the Door to Indigenous Food Security

    Indigenous communities are combining traditional knowledge and new technology to improve food production for its people. For example, the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma partners with the startup Symbiotic Aquaponic that uses fish and plants in water to grow traditional foods like corn, pole beans, and squash. It can be expensive to get started, but the system uses less water than industrial agriculture and provides key nutrition for members of the tribe.

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  • How Kaduna Women Finance Their Healthcare Through Recycled Wastes

    SOSOCARE Healthcare Insurance provides low-income women with health insurance in exchange for recyclable wastes, which they convert to hedge funds to pay for the insurance expansion. The insurance offers different levels of coverage, with the basic one guaranteeing coverage of basic illness treatments for diseases such as malaria and typhoid, including in-patient hospital recoveries, for the women and their families.

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  • Nigerian Rural Community Stuck In Water Crisis. A Nonprofit Takes A Photo, And It Tilts The Narrative

    The Grassroots Aid Initiative uses the power of photography to bring safe drinking water to communities in Nigeria. The women-led nonprofit takes pictures of these villages and uses the images to crowdfund on social media. So far, they’ve been able to bring motorized boreholes in 15 communities to help combat water scarcity.

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  • Tribal Pharmacy Dispenses Free Meds and Fills Gaps for Native Americans in the City

    The Mashkiki Waakaa’igan Pharmacy provides Native American patients with their prescriptions for no out-of-pocket expenses and provides culturally-conscious care.

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  • Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

    The Mansfield Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP) helps individuals in recovery programs access housing through its Genesis Row Project. The non-profit currently owns six houses and following some renovations, plans to house 20 people.

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  • Succour for Nigerian Persons with Albinism

    The Albino Foundation in Nigeria connects people with albinism to hospitals and government funding for expensive skin cancer treatments.

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