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  • Pakistan pins big hopes on small dams to help farmers beat drought

    January 25, 2021 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Nagarparkar, Sindh

    A government scheme in Pakistan involves the construction of water-harvesting dams in areas that experience droughts, which allows farmers in the region to use the irrigation water from the dams for their crops. One farmer is growing onions and wheat and because of the access to water, his income has increased more than 60 percent. There are concerns about how helpful the water from the dams will ultimately be in the arid region, but there are plans to build more dams in the next few years.

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  • Almost a year after opening, Compass House provides direction amid safe surroundings

    January 25, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

    Compass House provides safety and support for women, many of them newly released from incarceration, who struggle with substance misuse issues or mental illness. The transitional housing program is the first of its kind in a state that is sorely lacking in such services. Peer support and professional counseling and treatment can last a year or more. The women in the program, who are at high risk of homelessness without a refuge like Compass House, pay 30% of their income for rent, with the rest of the costs covered by a state agency.

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  • A Heavy Blow: The Pandemic's Impact on Domestic Violence

    January 25, 2021 |

    KOSU |

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    Response Location: United States, Oklahoma

    Domestic Violence Intervention Services supports domestic violence and sexual assault survivors. Services include counseling, legal advocacy, and group meetings among others. A texting service allows people to subtly connect to advocates, which was crucial during COVID-19 lockdowns and certified interpreters are available. Services are tailored to special populations, like immigrants and refugees, LGBTQ survivors, individuals who are incarcerated, and rural populations. An intensive year-long intervention program works with convicted offenders to develop coping mechanisms and tools to change behaviors.

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  • Amid Covid Health Worker Shortage, Foreign-Trained Professionals Sit on Sidelines

    January 25, 2021 |

    KFF Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A small cohort of states have eased restrictions and eliminated beauracratic barriers for foreign-trained doctors to practice medicine in the U.S. during the coronavirus pandemic as a means of better staffing hospitals. The states that have created these temporary licenses for "foreign-trained nurses, certified nurse’s aides, physician assistants and many other health professionals" have recieved numerous applications, although not all who apply qualify.

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  • After the Capitol Was Stormed, Teachers Try Explaining History in Real Time

    January 25, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    After the insurrection at the U.S. capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, teachers across the country responded to the event by finding ways to discuss the event with students. “They have turned to science fiction, Shakespearean tragedy and the fall of Rome in search of parallels to help their students process the often frightening and surely historic events.” Students and teachers turned to discussions to unpack the event.

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  • Charlotte may have cracked the code on affordable housing. Here's how

    January 25, 2021 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    A real estate investor has led the charge in creating a Housing Impact Fund in Charlotte, NC, to preserve affordable housing. The housing it seeks to preserve is not considered public housing but it does serve those who make less than the area’s median income. This type of housing is known as Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) and can be profitable over a longer period of time while simultaneously providing a service for the rapidly growing city.

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  • Telehealth addition makes Texas school nurse's offices look a lot different

    January 24, 2021 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Waco, Texas

    A handful of schools across Texas are implementing a telehealth program known as SchoolMed Virtual Care for Families to better serve their student body. The program pairs a virtual doctor with the school's in-person nurse to help assess the student and decide what sort of testing may be necessary or if the student can remain in school or should go home. During the pandemic, this service has played a significant role at at least one school in keeping the school open by being able to test on-site and order immediate isolation.

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  • Inmates are learning to be their own bosses after they leave jail behind

    January 24, 2021 |

    Mashable |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Inmates to Entrepreneurs has graduated 1 million people from its eight-week program that teaches incarcerated people how to start their own low-capital businesses. An extension of a free online entrepreneurship course, Starter U, the program offered in-person workshops until COVID forced it to go virtual. One study shows the unemployment rate in December 2020 for formerly incarcerated people was more than 27%, more than four times higher than the general public. Inmates to Entrepreneurs was started 28 years ago in North Carolina's prison system.

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  • How West Virginia Became a U.S. Leader in Vaccine Rollout

    January 24, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, West Virginia

    Prior to the COVID-19 vaccinations being rolled out to states, West Virginia preemptively opted out of the federal distribution plan that relied on CVS and Walgreens and instead partnered local pharmacies with long-term care facilities to vaccinate residents. The state's control over distribution has been extremely successful when compared to that of all other states; however, West Virginia officials are now reporting that their rate of vaccination is so efficient that it is outpacing their supply.

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  • 2 Years After Legalizing Cannabis, Has Canada Kept Its Promises?

    January 23, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Since Canada legalized recreational use of marijuana two years ago, prosecutions for possession of small amounts of the drug have all but disappeared, erasing a major racial disparity in Canadian law enforcement. But other aspects of the country's plan for racial equity to flow from legalization have yet to be realized. Few of the estimated 500,000 people with possession convictions on their record have managed the daunting process of getting their records cleared. Illegal sales still flourish, and Black and indigenous people have not found much success in the growing legal side of the business.

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