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  • How ‘cheap plastic' is helping to deal with Nigeria's open defecation problem

    March 22, 2023 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    A public campaign is improving access to toilets in Nigerian communities to put a stop to open defecation. These affordable, easy-to-install, plastic toilets have a counterweighted door that ensures an air-tight seal to minimize odor and keep pests away.

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  • LA reuses lots of stormwater, but wants to save more

    March 22, 2023 |

    KCRW |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    To help combat the water shortage, Los Angeles captures stormwater in giant dams and releases it later to slowly seep underground and recharge the aquifers. This water supplies about a quarter of the locals for the year.

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  • LA's City Hall Leads a New Fight Against an Old Foe: Homelessness

    March 22, 2023 |

    Bloomberg |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Los Angeles’ Inside Safe initiative is helping to transition people experiencing homelessness into interim housing and, eventually, permanent housing. The program uses local service providers to assist with the transition and provide social services.

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  • Women of Winter inspires the downhill rush that uplifts – and diversifies

    March 22, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Big Sky, Montana

    Women of Winter helps train women of color to become professional ski instructors and make the sport more accessible and diversified. Women from across the country come to join the program, receiving a sense of community and access to scholarships to attend events to further their education and experience.

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  • Assessing Trauma in Children: It's key to helping them thrive, and WMU center leads the way

    March 22, 2023 |

    Encore Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    The Child Trauma Assessment Center (CTAC) assesses youth ages three months to 17-years-old to see how trauma can negatively impact a child’s developing brain, especially among children in the foster care system. CTAC has trained more than 150,000 individuals in identifying trauma in children and its effects, including medical professionals, judges, caregivers and educators.

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  • Prisoner Correspondence Project brings comfort and hope to LGBTQ2S+ prisoners across North America

    March 22, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    The Prisoner Correspondence Project connects LGBTQ2S+ people who are incarcerated in the United States and Canada with pen pals who are not incarcerated. The consistent communication helps combat isolation and improve mental health and rehabilitation outcomes.

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  • In Kwara, documentary films bring healing to people with addiction

    March 21, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kwara

    The Mental Health Rebuilding and Restoring Initiative helps those struggling with drug addiction by showing them documentaries of others who have also struggled with addiction and how they managed to overcome it. The documentaries have since helped 50 people to stop using drugs. The Initiative also follows up with, monitors and encourages participants throughout their recovery journey.

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  • ‘It's about inclusion': Norfolk's first drag storytime a progressive step for rural county, advocates say

    March 21, 2023 |

    The Hamilton Spectator |

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    Response Location: Canada, Norfolk, Ontario

    A rural county recently hosted its first drag storytime in an effort to increase representation and inclusion among children — and adults — in the community by exposing them to LGBTQ+ people in their neighborhood. Those who attended felt a sense of belonging, inclusivity, and acceptance in a county that has historically been lacking.

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  • The Menstrual Room Keeping Rwandan Girls in School

    March 21, 2023 |

    The Chronicles |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Since 2012, the government has required schools from primary to university to create a Girl’s Room, stocked with pads, pain medicine, a bed, soap and water for girls to seek refuge in during their menstrual cycles, in an effort to address the issue of period poverty. By the end of 2021, 2,046 primary schools across the country had established a room for girls, representing 55.4% of all primary schools in the country. Schools with a Girl’s Room have also reported reduced rates of absenteeism and dropouts.

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  • Artificial reefs bring wild lake trout to Lake Huron

    March 21, 2023 |

    Great Lakes Echo |

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    Response Location: United States, Michigan

    As natural reefs continue to decline, artificial reefs constructed by humans from various materials like small stones or sunken ships create spaces for fish to breed safely.

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