Artwork stating 'Education Destroys Barriers', 'We Demand Treatment', and 'I Need A Chance'

Search Results

You searched for: -

There are 3816 results  for your search.  View and Refine Your Search Terms

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

    June 02, 2022 |

    Livingston Daily |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • How honesty may be the best policy for medical errors

    June 01, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

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

    May 31, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Wewoka, Oklahoma

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • How Kaduna Women Finance Their Healthcare Through Recycled Wastes

    May 29, 2022 |

    Daily Patriot |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

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

    May 28, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Afon, Kwara

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

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

    May 24, 2022 |

    KFF Health News |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

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

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

    May 19, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    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.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • Succour for Nigerian Persons with Albinism

    May 19, 2022 |

    TalkHealth9Ja-TV |

    Video |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria

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

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • Tackling the supply side of the EMS shortage

    May 18, 2022 |

    Montana Free Press |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Missoula, Montana

    To combat the EMS shortage exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, a collaboration between a college and emergency services department is working to train paramedics by providing students access to high-end facilities, instructors, and experiences. Similar programs have popped up around the country, specifically in rural areas where the EMS shortage is even more apparent.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

  • Forth Hope: La esperanza navega por el río Ucayali

    May 17, 2022 |

    El País |

    Text |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Peru

    En el fondo de la Amazonía peruana donde no llegan fácilmente los médicos, el barco Forth Hope lleva curación, alivio, vacunas y prevención. Desde el año 2002, ha visitado y ayudado a millones de personas con apoyo médico, odontólogo, psicólogo y obstétrica.

    Read More


    Go to Original Story

Go to All Solutions in Focus