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  • Summit Safe Syringe Exchange ‘plants just a little bit of hope' through harm reduction

    December 07, 2020 |

    The Devil Strip |

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    Response Location: United States, Akron, Ohio

    The Summit Safe Syringe Exchange provides free and clean needles and supplies to people who use drugs, while also providing access to testing and counseling and connecting people to housing and health care resources. Project DAWN saturated the community with naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, and trains community members to recognize and treat overdoses quickly. Both programs have helped the Summit County Public Health integrate harm reduction strategies into the ways that officials address drug use and addiction.

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  • Kibera ropes project keeps children out of mischief, supplements families' income

    December 07, 2020 |

    Impacthub Media |

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    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera, Nairobi Area

    Concerned with a rise in misbehavior by students who were staying home much more due to the coronavirus pandemic, a resident of Kibera started a rope-making project that both engages and employs the children. "I felt the need come up with a project to keep the children busy and also generate a little income for the families to shield them from the effects of the pandemic,” the founder of the program explains.

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  • As Pandemic Threatens Britain's Mental Health, These ‘Fishermen' Fight Back

    December 06, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: England, Gainsborough, Lincolnshire

    The Bearded Fisherman, a mental health charity formed by two men with their own past struggles with mental illness and homelessness, runs a weekly, virtual community support group, takes crisis-intervention calls, and runs the Night Watch suicide-prevention patrol to help people find ways to survive and cope with pandemic-driven unemployment and isolation. In addition to intervening in the moment to prevent a suicide, and providing informal counseling, the group refers people to counseling as England endures Europe's highest COVID-19 death toll and a deep recession.

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  • Chimney Sweeps Attack Deadly Pollution Crisis

    December 06, 2020 |

    Global Press Journal |

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    Response Location: Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

    After banning the burning of raw coal as a way to reduce air pollution in Mongolia, residents of Ulaanbaatar switched to refined charcoal to heat their homes. However, that coal also wasn’t the cleanest and contributed to hundreds suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning. To fix that, the government teamed up with a private company to hire more than 1,600 people to clean and inspect people’s chimneys and stoves. While critics say the program doesn’t solve the country’s pollution problem, the service has provided jobs to those who didn’t have steady work and helped those who aren't able to clean their stoves.

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  • Police Drones Are Starting to Think for Themselves

    December 05, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Chula Vista, California

    The first Drone as First Responder program in the U.S. expands the use of drone aircraft by the police, sending the aircraft on emergency calls without direct oversight by a human pilot. Using technology similar to self-driving cars, the drones deploy long-distance cameras and other sensors to observe things more quickly, safely, or efficiently than through traditional means. As more police departments adopt the equipment and tactic, privacy advocates warn of surveillance excesses that could harm over-policed populations.

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  • Could community collaboration be the key to a better child care system?

    December 05, 2020 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Swanzey, New Hampshire

    Building on an early-childhood initiative, the Monadnock district was able to quickly respond and provide childcare services for employees of the Monadnock district by partnering with the YMCA. The response was an effort to prevent employees from missing work during the pandemic due to lack of childcare. 32 children enrolled in the program. “I think of Impact Monadnock as a real beacon of the way a community can come together around early childhood [education].”

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  • À Bukavu, la réinsertion des enfants marginalisés

    December 05, 2020 |

    Solidarum |

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    Response Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo

    En République Démocratique du Congo, des enfants, parce qu’ils sont différents, sont marginalisés voire ostracisés. Deux organismes de la ville de Bukavu les accueillent. Le centre Heri Kwetu s’occupe d’environ 200 enfants par an en situation de handicap, physique ou psychique. Depuis sa création, en 2003, l’école a déjà encadré autour de 2000 élèves. Le foyer social Eka’Bana, prend soin quotidiennement d'enfants accusés de sorcellerie. 500 enfants ont été encadrés depuis la création du centre en 2002.

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  • A System for Sharing Household Heat Is Growing Beneath France

    December 04, 2020 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: France, Paris

    In Paris, about 7,500 buildings are heated using geothermal energy, a cost-saving and carbon neutral energy source. Water is drawn from deep below ground at a central location and heated by the earth, and then sent via underground pipes to individual buildings. The Bagneux and Chatillon district has scaled up the system, providing heat to over 40,000 people. Districts created joint ventures to reduce construction costs and residents do not notice the energy source shift because when the temperature drops to a point where geothermal energy is not viable, gas boilers automatically keeps the heat flowing.

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  • Arizona team helps investigate and trace COVID cases

    December 04, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    A team of volunteers at the University of Arizona is helping to bolster contact tracing efforts during the pandemic by working in tandem with those who have been trained by the Arizona Department of Health Services. Although federal health privacy restrictions limit what the volunteers can ask and in what order they must do so, the volunteer team "has made about 9,000 case investigations calls and contacted over 1,000 people exposed to the virus."

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  • To Rethink the School Run, Get Rid of the Cars

    December 04, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    The United Kingdom is encouraging students and parents to ditch their cars for bikes, scooters, and walking with the adoption of “School Streets.” The initiative halts vehicular traffic from using roads in front of schools, creating a safe space open for walking and cycling. School-related traffic contributes to a quarter of vehicular congestion, contributing to increasingly poor air quality and the associated detrimental health effects.

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