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  • Ukraine Starts Unpacking Mental Trauma as War Rages On

    September 19, 2023 |

    Direct Relief |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Kharkiv

    The “Together with You” center employs psychologists to provide mental health care to civilians in need, including children. Similar centers have also emerged in the area to address rising mental health concerns, like Kimnara Pidtrymky (Support Room) to provide free psychological services to children, both in person and online. These centers — and others like them — often collaborate all in an effort to reduce mental health stigma in the country.

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  • How Grassroots Sports Clubs are Tackling Mental Health

    September 19, 2023 |

    Men's Health |

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    Response Location: England, London

    Minds United Football Club hosts weekly sessions for people to join together and play football, while also addressing their mental health and well-being. Minds United, and similar sports clubs, aim to create a “we-agency,” providing people with a sense of being part of something bigger than themselves that allows them to feel empowered and supported. Sports groups like Minds United foster community among people who may be experiencing loneliness or mental health issues and are in need of a healthy outlet, particularly for men who face significant mental health stigma.

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  • Are Oakland community ambassadors making a difference?

    September 19, 2023 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In response to public safety concerns and understaffed police departments, community ambassadors are working to improve public safety by building relationships with local business owners and residents, mitigating conflict without force or violence, providing support to people in crisis and keeping the city clean. Since community ambassadors began patrolling the area, local business owners have reported noticing fewer robberies and crime in general.

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  • The Backyard Farmers Who Grow Food With Fog

    September 18, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: Peru

    El Movimiento Peruanos sin Agua is leading an initiative to install fog catchers in communities across Peru that lack access to water as they continue to face a drought. The nonprofit provides communities with a netted device, a network of tubes, and storage containers that they put together to harvest water from fog.

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  • Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

    September 18, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    The Safer Hands Health Initiative (SHI) aims to reduce maternal mortality across the country by educating and empowering birth attendants, healthcare centers and pregnant women to use safe delivery practices. SHI partners with medical boards and area hospitals to provide free training for birth attendants and also provides sterile birthing kits to expectant mothers. So far, SHI has trained over 200 birth attendants and has distributed more than 10,000 birthing kits.

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  • As Chicago Punts on Apartment Safety, Denver Shows What's Possible

    September 18, 2023 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    A new licensing system that registers landlords and requires safety checks is ensuring tenants have safe places to live that are up to code and meet basic safety standards like having working smoke detectors or being free of mold. So far about 4,000 single-unit rental properties have been inspected and signed off on as safe places to live and the city has issued 1,578 violations to buildings that don’t meet the safety criteria.

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  • How Cambodian Americans Heal the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma

    September 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

    The Fresno Center provides immigration services and culturally relevant mental health care to members of the Southeast Asian community. The Center provides therapy in native languages and works to destigmitize mental health in an effort to heal decades of generational trauma.

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  • 'Future' of voting unrealized: Few counties adopt vote centers and e-poll books

    September 15, 2023 |

    South Dakota Searchlight |

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    Response Location: United States, South Dakota

    For some counties in South Dakota, switching to centralized vote centers and electronic poll books helped increase turnout and cut the costs of running an election. However, for other counties the cost of implementing vote centers initially has been prohibitive, and not all vote centers have resulted in increased turnout.

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  • The Initiative Enabling Nigerian Farmers To Grow And Earn More

    September 15, 2023 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kubau, Kaduna

    Babban Gona is an agriculture company that helps smallholder farmers in Nigeria produce bigger yields and increase their incomes. The company offers training, fertilizer, herbicides, and seeds in exchange for some of the farmer’s harvest. When the produce sells, the farmers get some of the profit and a bonus if it sells for more than expected.

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  • Social Business Profile: Saving 9 – the first aid pioneers in Pakistan

    September 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Pakistan, Pind Begwal

    Saving 9 bridges the gaps between rural areas and emergency medical care by providing essential training to locals, transforming them into medical personnel. Saving 9 also has an ambulance that connects rural villages to medical facilities in the capital city and also offers a female-led ambulance service to provide culturally sensitive care to women in more conservative, rural communities. Since forming in 2017, Saving 9 has saved more than 900 lives.

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