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  • A pad bank for girls to stay in school

    The Pad-A-Girl project by the Citizen Participation Advancement and Awareness Initiative (CPAAI) helps those experiencing period poverty, particularly girls in primary and secondary schools and underprivileged women. CPAAI offers washable pads that are good for five years, installed pad banks in area schools and taught the women and girls how to create washable pads themselves. The program launched in 2020 and has since helped more than 7,000 women and girls across 25 schools and communities.

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  • LA SED Senior Center emphasizes wellness support for Southwest Detroit seniors, caregivers as Latino population and funding needs rise

    Latin Americans for Social and Economic Development (LA SED) provides culturally relevant programming and services for the area’s predominantly Latino senior community. The Center offers a safe space for seniors to converse in their native language, take English classes, connect with the community, exercise classes, and receive necessary care like vaccinations, food distribution and other social programming and wellness-focused care.

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  • Everyone dies. End-of-life doulas can help us process it

    End-of-life doulas, or death doulas, are non-medical aides that help guide people through the process of dying. Death doulas provide various forms of support to dying people and their families like death planning and listening to grieving loved ones. The National End-of-Life Doula Alliance currently has more than 1,500 members worldwide, a 300-person increase from 2019 when the nonprofit was formed.

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  • Delivering Addresses (and Access) to the Navajo Nation

    The Rural Utah Project is working to connect rural, off-the-grid residents in Navajo Mountain with fundamental services like mail, emergency medical care and voter access that they were often denied due to lacking a formally recognized address. Google’s Plus Code tool is allowing simple 10-digit codes to be generated anywhere in the world and instantly located on Google Maps. The codes can easily be looked up and doubles as a formal address in most cases.

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  • The non-profit pushing back drug abuse in Nigeria

    The David Folaranmi Foundation works to fight drug abuse and help those suffering from addiction through rehabilitation and education efforts. The Foundation connects patients to local rehabilitation centers for free treatment and therapy services. The Foundation also works to empower individuals to gain practical skills to help them reenter society and the workforce. Since forming in 2017, the Foundation has successfully funded the rehabilitation of 66 individuals.

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  • How 3 LGBTQ+ centers support Detroit's queer youth

    LGBTQ+ youth centers, like The Ruth Ellis Center, are working to provide a sense of community and access to necessary services to uplift local LGBTQ+ youth. The Ruth Ellis Center offers shelter to LGBTQ+ youth facing homelessness and serves about 1,200 people each year. Along with shelter, the Center also works to bridge the healthcare gap in the LGBTQ+ community by partnering with Henry Ford Health to provide general wellness visits, STI/HIV screening, contraceptives and gender-affirming care.

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  • Nepal's Covid-19 Immunization Campaign – An Unlikely Frontrunner

    Through well-coordinated efforts by healthcare workers, those living in rural, hard-to-reach areas were able to access the COVID-19 vaccine. As of July 2023, 83.9% of the country’s total population had been vaccinated with their first dose and 83.4% had received their second dose.

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  • Responses to schistosomiasis paying off in North Central Nigeria, despite challenges

    Interventions like annual mass administration of medicines, increasing clean water access and educational efforts are being deployed across several states to help curb the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) like schistosomiasis. These interventions have been active since 1995 and through the help of partnering with other local and international organizations, like the German E-Merck, rates of NTDs like schistosomiasis have dramatically decreased over the years.

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  • These Hospitals Are Welcoming RV Living For Patients, Families And Workers

    Some hospitals like OHSU Hospital are free offering RV parking spaces with electric hookups for patients who are traveling great distances for medical treatment. Providing RV parking increases access to health care for patients, specifically those from rural areas. It also helps to improve patient comfort and quality of care, as they’re able to get a good night’s sleep in their RVs, rather than drive through the night or struggle to find lodging elsewhere.

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  • Indigenous people navigate abortion access after Roe v. Wade

    Indigenous Women Rising is a national fund that covers the costs of abortions and the traditional ceremonies that come afterward for Indigenous people. Indigenous Women Rising provides funds for airfare, child care, gas and whatever else a person getting an abortion may need covered, particularly to those in states with abortion restrictions. Since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, the demand for services have significantly increased. In 2019, the group funded 37 abortions and in the first six months of 2023 they had funded over 300.

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