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  • LGBTQ elders risk aging in isolation. A nonprofit is trying to change that.

    The Michigan LGBTQ+ Elders Network (MiGen) works to provide aging LGBTQ+ adults with necessary healthcare, like long-term care facilities. The Network also offers culturally responsive training for adult care providers.

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  • Mekong shrimp farmers less keen to share space with mangroves

    Farmers in Vietnam use integrated shrimp-mangrove ponds to produce organic shrimp for a higher profit while preserving endangered native mangroves. When practicing traditional shrimp farming, the mangrove forests would be cleared but leaving the trees near the water provides nutrients and breeding grounds for the shrimp.

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  • The Puerto Ricans Illegally Occupying Land to Resist Displacement

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, several locals are joining together to occupy land and avoid further displacement. Community members have worked together to address food insecurity by creating community gardens and have also cleaned and repaired abandoned buildings in the community to turn them into food banks, housing options and resource centers for those in need.

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  • Das Buurtzorg-Modell: Die (verhinderte) Revolution in der Pflege

    Im niederländischen Buurtzorg-Modell organisieren sich Pflegekräfte völlig autonom. Dadurch steigt nicht nur die Arbeitszufriedenheit und die Attraktivität des Berufs für Arbeitssuchende, sondern auch die Qualität der gesundheitlichen Versorgung.

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  • A Simple Fix Lifts Single Moms Out of Poverty in India's Slums

    Fund a Mom gives 40 single mothers in Jaipur, India, $60 a month with no strings attached. The guaranteed income program helps them cover necessary expenses giving them the breathing room to find paid employment.

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  • 'Mommunes': Mothers Are Living Single Together

    Women around the world are coming together to form “mommunes,” which are communes for single mothers to live under the same roof and share the load of child care, bills and housework. There are even platforms, like CoAbode, which have emerged to make finding other single mothers to live with much easier. CoAbode alone has had about 300,000 single mothers create profiles on the platform to find a home-share match.

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  • 'We're a community': These groups are working to bail out incarcerated women in time for Mother's Day

    As a part of the National Bail Out effort in the United States, the Free Black Mamas DMV campaign bails incarcerated women out of jails in the Washington D.C. area in time for Mother’s Day.

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  • Start-ups see sustainable future in seaweed farming

    Companies are beginning to grow offshore seaweed for human consumption as a protein option that’s better for the environment. Growing seaweed on ropes in the ocean is less land-intensive, sequesters carbon, and doesn’t require fertilizer or pesticides.

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  • Resource-rich countries find it pays to pay landholders to protect their land

    Guatemala’s reforestation programs pay farmers to keep their lands forested instead of clearing them for farming. The annual $380 payment each participant receives for 5 to 10 years comes from the general taxes collected by the government.

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  • The Matriarchs Who Helped Seattle's Urban Native Population

    The Seattle Indian Center, originally started by the matriarchs of the American Indian Women’s Service League, provides Native people in need with resources like food, clothing, financial and employment assistance, community outreach services and a sense of community where their heritage and culture are recognized.

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