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This house overwhelms me and no one is grateful

Camila Ramírez

May 28, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

Bogotá's Manzanas del Cuidado (Caregiving Blocks) provides free services like education, counseling, and skills training at 25 neighborhood locations to reduce the burden on women caregivers, successfully empowering participants to complete high school, gain new skills, and find employment opportunities. It's become a pioneering model in Latin America for recognizing unrenumerating labors. Read this article in Spanish here: https://solu.news/zfxr

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Abiye: Ondo's Community-Based Model for Maternal and Child Care Encounters Setbacks

Abdulwasiu Mujeeb

May 19, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Akure, Ondo

The Abiye Project registered over 20,000 pregnant women using a community-based model to ensure they receive proper healthcare. The program connected women with trained health rangers who served as liaisons with traditional birth attendants (TBAs). When TBAs’ resistance stalled the program, the government introduced financial incentives, paying them for each patient referral, leading to more hospital births and a reduced child and maternal mortality rate.

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La casa agobia y nadie agradece

Camila Ramírez

May 18, 2025 |

El Turbión |

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Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

El Sistema Distrital de Cuidado de Bogotá, implementado desde 2020 con sus 25 Manzanas del Cuidado como estrategia central, es un modelo pionero en América Latina por reconocer el trabajo no remunerado. Ha logrado transformar la vida de mujeres cuidadoras ofreciéndoles espacios gratuitos de formación, apoyo psicojurídico y desarrollo personal que les han permitido retomar estudios, fortalecer su autoestima y acceder a redes de apoyo. Puedes leer este artículo en inglés aquí: https://solu.news/wiva

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In FCT, People Are Dancing Their Way To Better Mental Health

Prosper Ishaya

May 14, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

A professional dance therapist in Abuja has developed a dance therapy program to address the country’s mental health crisis. He conducts guided movement sessions beginning with emotional check-ins and uses music to help participants express feelings non-verbally. His approach targets individuals with anxiety, stress, depression, and even those with physical conditions like strokes. The program reports reaching over 1,500 people with a claimed 90% success rate.

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Healing Arts

Brian S. McGrath

May 12, 2025 |

The New York Times Upfront Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

Social prescribing connects people with nonclinical activities, like art classes, nature walks and book clubs, to help them manage their mental health systems. Groups like Art Pharmacy, local universities and even the Cleveland Clinic, are prescribing these activities as a way to treat underlying issues like isolation and social stress.

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The Screenings Saving Lives in Rural Guatemala

Stephanie Capper

May 07, 2025 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Guatemala

The Nursing Heart mobile cervical cancer screening clinic uses visual inspection with an acetic acid (VIA) screening method to make cancer screening simpler and more affordable. Since 2011, the clinic has performed more than 4,000 mobile cancer screenings in more than 40 rural Guatemalan communities.

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Bolivia's Trans Houses: group shelters that seek to change lives

Brenda Villalba

May 06, 2025 |

El Colectivo 506 |

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Response Location: Bolivia

Trans Houses are community shelters created by and for trans women in Bolivia that offer comprehensive health services, psychological support, legal assistance, and entrepreneurship opportunities, evolving from basic assistance spaces into collective emancipation platforms that have served over 2,500 people across four cities and are expanding as a replicable model of social transformation. This story is available in Spanish here: https://solu.news/1qka

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Parents often struggle to find help for troubled youngsters — but this Maryland program can help

Katelynn Winebrenner

May 05, 2025 |

Capital News Service Maryland |

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Response Location: United States, Hagerstown, Maryland

The Co-Location Internship Program between Salisbury University and Maryland’s child psychiatry access program places social work graduate students in pediatric offices to connect youth and their families with behavioral and mental health care for free. Since the program began in 2012, interns have conducted 12,160 family visits, with a 98.3% satisfaction rate.

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This Youth-led Initiative is Debunking Myths About Health Insurance, PHCs in Nigeria's Capital

Isabella Ikpe

May 03, 2025 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

DEAN Initiative's Youth Health Access Initiative addresses healthcare misconceptions among young people through targeted community outreach, educational workshops in local languages, and training programs for healthcare workers. The initiative specifically addresses myths that Primary Healthcare Centers are only for pregnant women and children, and that health insurance is only for the sick, helping to increase healthcare accessibility.

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How this Limpopo NGO prepared itself for Trump funding cuts

Zano Kunene

April 29, 2025 |

Bhekisisa |

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Response Location: South Africa, Limpopo

After sudden U.S. government funding cuts jeopardized South Africa's HIV programs, Limpopo's Hlokomela Clinic quickly reorganized around existing resources, training community health workers to identify and encourage farm workers to visit still-operational clinic sites for HIV testing. By leveraging volunteers, they partially offset the impact of losing their dedicated HIV testing outreach team and program funding.

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