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  • Beyond Rhetoric: Assessing Lagos DSVA's Record on GBV Prevention and Response.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA) provides comprehensive survivor support services including legal aid, medical care, shelters, and prevention programs, successfully building public trust and securing 140+ convictions while reaching 6.3 million people through awareness campaigns, though significant gaps remain between the 8,692 reported cases and actual access to justice and support services.

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  • House and home: When housing works, tribal communities win

    October 03, 2025 |

    Montana Free Press |

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    Response Location: Blackfeet Nation, United States, Montana

    NACDE Financial Services, a Native Community Development Financial Institution on Montana's Blackfeet Reservation, provides home financing to those who can’t access traditional bank mortgages. NACDC offers credit-building and home loans, first-time homebuyer education, and leverages relationships with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to navigate complex bureaucratic processes regarding homeownership. The nonprofit is staffed by community members who understand local tribal politics and court systems, and has closed 109 real estate loans since 2017 with a 0% default rate.

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  • Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

    October 03, 2025 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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  • The Nigerian Women Who Went from Labourers for Hire to Landowners

    October 03, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    Twenty women in Kaduna, Nigeria formed a cooperative in 2015 that pooled their farm labor earnings to collectively purchase land, transforming them from hired laborers earning ₦2,000-₦10,000 per day into independent landowners who now harvest enough to support their families' education and healthcare while contributing food to their community.

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  • برنامج “المثمر”.. خارطة طريق لإدماج النساء القرويات في التنمية الزراعية

    October 02, 2025 |

    صوت المغرب (The Voice) |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Morocco

    يبرز التقرير دور برنامج "المثمر" في توفير التدريب التقني والأدوات الرقمية للنساء القرويات العاملات في المجال الزراعي في المغرب، وهو ما يساهم في دعم الإنتاج والتسويق وتوسيع مشاركة النساء في التنمية الزراعية وتحسين ظروفهن المعيشية.

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  • Meet the AI chatbot that's talking to young South Africans about sex, HIV and self-harm

    October 02, 2025 |

    Bhekisisa |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    Self-Cav is an AI chatbot that provides judgment-free, 24/7 information to young South Africans about HIV prevention, sexual health, and mental health via WhatsApp, allowing them to connect to real healthcare workers when needed. The chatbot is specifically designed to create demand for the HIV prevention medication PrEP among young women. Nearly 10,000 young people have used the chatbot platform, and 25% have been successfully linked to clinics or healthcare workers for PrEP, HIV testing, contraceptives, or mental health support.

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  • Sydani bridges vaccine gaps in Anambra

    October 02, 2025 |

    Radio Nigeria |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ogbaru, Anambra

    The Saving Lives and Livelihoods Project tackles vaccine access barriers in hard-to-reach communities by bringing immunization services directly to families on farms and in remote camps with trained mobile health teams. Since the work began, immunizations have increased in several areas, and children who were previously overdue have since been vaccinated.

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  • When Women Keep Watch: Inside Plateau's Female-Led Vigilantes and Peace Networks

    September 30, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Jos

    Women in Jos, Nigeria formed cross-religious peace networks and vigilante patrols that eliminated conflict deaths between 2014-2023 in their communities, restored inter-faith relationships, and reduced crime through nighttime security operations, though they face ongoing challenges from lack of police support and systemic justice failures.

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  • Documenting the History Trump Wants to Erase

    September 30, 2025 |

    Hyperallergic |

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    Response Location: United States

    Volunteer groups such as Citizen Historians and Save Our Signs are documenting artifacts and displays at museums and national parks as the Trump administration moves forward with plans to modify or remove vital historical information. So far, Citizen Historians has taken more than 31,000 photographs in the Smithsonian museum system, while Save Our Signs has collected more than 10,000 photos of signs in national parks.

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  • Denver's Food Forests Provide Free Fruit While Greening the Environment

    September 29, 2025 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Denver Urban Gardens transformed vacant urban lots into 26 food forests containing over 1,200 fruit trees and berry bushes, providing free fresh produce to communities while reducing local temperatures by 5-15 degrees and increasing tree canopy coverage in one of America's least forested cities.

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