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  • Emprendimientos migrantes claves para el desarrollo local

    Florencia Luján

    February 26, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Argentina, Gualeguaychú

    En Gualeguaychú existen varios emprendimientos gastronómicos que están ayudando a solucionar el desempleo y aportando al desarrollo sostenible local.

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  • Get Loud Arkansas sees success in new voter registration strategy

    Mary Hennigan

    February 26, 2024 |

    Arkansas Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Arkansas

    Since Arkansas does not allow online voter registration, Get Loud Arkansas collects voters’ information via an online form and then submits the registration paperwork for them, helping reach residents who are less likely to register in person via paper applications. So far, 358 people have registered using the organization’s online system, and nearly 80 percent of those were people under 20.

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  • Portable AI Ultrasound Reducing Maternal Mortality in Sierra Leone

    Treezer Michelle Atieno

    February 26, 2024 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Sierra Leone

    AI software BabyChecker is a portable ultrasound tool that can be accessed through smartphones and allows community health workers to easily and quickly detect pregnancy risks in rural areas where access to care is difficult. So far, over 20 community health workers have been trained to use the technology, and more than 2,000 pregnant women have been scanned using the BabyChecker app.

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  • Mt. Everest is plagued by garbage. These Nepali women are transforming it into crafts

    Tanka Dhakal

    February 25, 2024 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Tharu community, Nepal, Kathmandu

    A coalition of local businesses in Kathmandu, Nepal, is sorting non-recyclable waste collected from mountaineering activities in the Himalayan mountains. Once it is sorted, skilled Indigenous craftswomen make it into new products, like placemats and jewelry boxes, to earn a living.

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  • Courtroom watchdog program holds Los Angeles judges accountable

    Eliza Partika

    February 23, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Volunteers with CourtWatch LA attend court sessions throughout the county to take notes on proceedings, which help to inform the Rate My Judge platform run by de-carceration nonprofit La Defensa. Watchdog groups like CourthWatch LA provide oversight on the criminalization of income and race in court, as Black and Latino residents are disproportionately effected by unjust rulings and treatment.

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  • The 15-Minute City Is Saving My Life

    Steve Mencher

    February 22, 2024 |

    Next Avenue |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that encourages planners to develop neighborhoods that are easily accessible within a 15-minute walk, bike or public transit ride. The 15-minute city idea promotes health and wellness by encouraging residents to walk and bike more, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and fosters a sense of community among locals.

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  • How Mill Creek mobile home residents bought the land under their feet

    Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

    February 21, 2024 |

    The Everett Daily Herald (HeraldNet) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mill Creek, Washington

    ROC USA helps residents of manufactured home communities form co-ops to purchase the property their homes are built on, giving residents more stability and control over where they live. The organization has helped create 312 manufactured home communities in 21 states since 2008.

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  • Chatham Maternity Care Center bucks trend of rural maternity closures

    Rachel Crumpler

    February 21, 2024 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Siler City, North Carolina

    As rural hospitals stopped providing maternity care, Chatham Hospital opened a new Maternity Care Center in September 2020. The five-bed unit provides care to low-risk mothers and newborns and is staffed with family physicians trained in obstetrics and surgery, to keep costs down. In three years, the Maternity Care Center has delivered 402 babies, with birth volumes gradually increasing each year.

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  • How police are using cameras in school zones to catch speeders

    Jenna Zibton

    February 21, 2024 |

    Solutionaries |

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    Response Location: United States, Altavista, Virginia

    The police department in Altavista, Virginia, installed traffic cameras in school zones that help catch people going 10 miles per hour or more above the speed limit during the beginning and end of the school day. The $100 tickets issued for speed violations deter the behavior and reduce the occurrence of accidents involving pedestrians.

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  • Wildlife Crossings Can Mend a Landscape

    Anne Pinto-Rodrigues

    February 21, 2024 |

    Sierra Club |

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    Response Location: Netherlands

    The Netherlands built nearly 3,000 wildlife crossings over and under roads, railways, and waterways to reduce habitat fragmentation, allowing wildlife to roam freely without becoming roadkill.

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