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  • Rwanda Saving Mothers' Lives With An SMS

    September 14, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    The RapidSMS program provides mobile phones to connect pregnant women, community health workers (CHWs), ambulances, and hospitals. CHWs enter data into phones to track all pregnant women, monitor prenatal care, and identify women at risk of complications. The free platform also allows pregnant women to send a text message to their CHW, who can alert an ambulance to be dispatched to even the most remote regions and give hospitals advanced notice of the women’s arrival. The system has been so effective in improving health outcomes that the government is looking to use it for other medical issues like malaria.

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  • Youth Volunteers On The Frontline To Curb The Spread Of COVID-19

    September 14, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Rukara

    Youth volunteers in Rwanda are keeping their communities safe by reminding people to follow coronavirus safety guidelines. Volunteers enforce social distancing, masks, and hygiene, in addition to fighting misinformation about the virus.

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  • RGGI, behind the rhetoric: What we know about the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

    September 14, 2021 |

    StateImpact Pennsylvania |

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    Response Location: United States

    A regional cap-and-trade program in the northeast United States has reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and led to overall job gains in the economy. Up to 50 percent of the region’s CO2 reductions are attributable to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative program and nine of the states participating report training more than 8,000 workers.

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  • Rwanda Strives To Stamp Out Killer Malaria Using Drones

    September 14, 2021 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

    A pilot program is using drones to spray anti-Malaria pesticides in high-incidence regions. The spraying drones have a 10-liter on-board tank that holds a biological insecticide, which uses bacteria that impacts larval stages of certain insects, including mosquitoes. The operator flown drone has a battery powered spray pump that releases the spray and the downward thrust of the propellers pushes it to the ground. The fixed-wing drone takes off vertically and flies horizontally for 50 minutes and 80 miles. Estimates show a drastic decline of malaria cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the sprayed areas.

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  • Ein Ort der Hoffnung

    September 14, 2021 |

    3Sat |

    Broadcast TV Programs |

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    Response Location: Brazil

    Das Instituto Terra um den Fotografen Sebastiao Salgado betreibt im Osten Brasiliens ein beispielloses Aufforstungsprojekt. Dabei analysieren und verwenden sie auch die Samen hunderter verschiedener Baumarten aus der Region. Nach Jahren der Abholzung kehrt nun das Leben zurück.

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  • The hotel for homeless people

    September 14, 2021 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    To limit the spread of COVID-19, the Everyone In initiative offers housing to people experiencing homelessness. In the first few months of the program, the government paid for hotel rooms – which were empty due to the pandemic – for about 15,000 people. Additional services provided include helping people with substance abuse issues, accessing welfare benefits, and finding permanent housing. Some hotel residents expressed a renewed sense of purpose from having stable housing. A new set of workers, like hotel staff, addressing homelessness for the first time also led to innovation.

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  • How Delta Air Lines mandated employee vaccinations without losing workers

    September 14, 2021 |

    Quartz |

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    Response Location: United States

    To increase the number of employees getting vaccinated against COVID-19, Delta Air Lines announced that the company would charge employees for their healthcare plans if they were not vaccinated. Many businesses have used incentives to encourage their employees to get the vaccine, which can be positive rewards or, as in this case, the threat of a potential penalty. Within two weeks of the announcement, 20% of Delta’s remaining unvaccinated employees received their shots and no employees have resigned as a result of the new policy.

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  • ‘Every man was drinking': how much do bans on alcohol help women in India?

    September 14, 2021 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Bihar

    The Bihar, India, state government banned drinking and selling alcohol in 2016 after women in the mostly rural state mounted protests blaming men's alcohol abuse for rampant violence against women. Hundreds of thousands of arrests, carrying severe penalties, resulted from the ban. Previous bans in Bihar and other states failed because of unpopularity and loopholes. This one has some evidence to suggest a 15% decline in drinking, but only a 4% decline in violence, while bootlegging and other crimes have increased. The prohibition protests have spread to other states.

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  • These Guides Help Defendants Avoid the Legal System's Boobytraps

    September 13, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The nationwide nonprofit Partners for Justice aids public defender offices and their clients, helping to close gaps that can turn into unfair outcomes in criminal cases and repeated failures guaranteeing incarceration. Advocates get posted for two years to assist underfunded public defenders in multiple cities. The help can include gathering evidence to aid in clients' defense. But it goes beyond that to helping them and their families navigate bureaucracies so that their lives can be stable enough to avoid more criminal legal entanglements.

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  • Seattle police intervening in fewer mental health calls, data show

    September 13, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Washington state legislators imposed new restrictions on the use of force by police, including strict limits on physically restraining someone who is not suspected of committing a crime. At a time when non-police responders to mental health crises are not yet fully staffed, the use-of-force reforms have had the unintended consequence in Seattle of denying some people in mental health crises the emergency care they need. Police believe they are not allowed to restrain someone in order to involuntarily commit them to a mental hospital. Involuntary commitments have dropped by almost half.

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