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  • One Protest at a Time, Iyana Ipaja's Market Women Push Back Against Extortion, Injustice

    September 28, 2025 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Market women in Iyana Ipaja organized street protests after failed letter-writing campaigns, which led to the traditional ruler (Baale) brokering a peace agreement that stopped the extortion by thugs claiming to act on behalf of a local strongman, though the traders acknowledge this relief may be temporary.

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  • Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene

    September 27, 2025 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    In the wake of disasters like Hurricane Helene, FEMA is tasked with dispensing aid, including rental assistance and funding for home repairs. But in six of the 10 North Carolina counties most affected by the storm, the lowest-income households received less aid that households in the highest income tier, raising concerns about equity and the agency’s onerous application process.

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  • What It Takes To Keep Kentucky's Black-Led Farms Alive

    September 26, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    Black Soil, a nonprofit organization founded in 2017, supports Kentucky's Black farmers through direct investment, grant assistance, and market connections while bridging information gaps that prevent farmers from accessing existing government programs.

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  • Budgeting for Equality: How Local Councils in Cameroon are Including Women

    September 24, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Cameroon

    Gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) in Cameroon requires local councils to include women in budget planning and allocate resources to meet their specific needs, resulting in over 500 women in Tiko and Limbe councils gaining access to market infrastructure improvements, vocational training, agricultural support, and business grants that have enabled them to generate income and support their families.

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  • Cedar Oaks Clinic is reimagining what mental health care can look like

    September 23, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, Wake Forest, North Carolina

    In response to gaps in accessing psychiatric care, Cedar Oaks Clinic developed a team-based mental health care model that provides alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization through same-day crisis services, six-week intensive community programs, and collaborative care involving 30 specialized staff members. The clinic uses a holistic approach where providers from different specialties work together to create individualized treatment plans. So far, the clinic has served 3,000 patients, receiving hundreds of positive reviews.

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  • Las dos caras de la IA: cómo se usa para ejercer violencia digital contra menores y cómo puede ser parte de la solución (aunque aún tiene limitaciones)

    September 22, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Chatbots de IA como Sof-IA y programas educativos como E-tic están ayudando a menores españoles a gestionar el malestar emocional derivado de la violencia digital y a desarrollar pensamiento crítico para identificar y responder ante contenidos manipulados con inteligencia artificial.

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  • Cross Adapts To Phone-Free School

    September 19, 2025 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, New Haven, Connecticut

    Since instituting Yondr pouches, which keep phones locked away during the school day, students at Wilbur Cross High School say they feel more present and social with each other, and the library is even reporting an increase in books checked out compared to years past. But some concerns linger about equity when it comes to completing web-based assignments, particularly for students who don’t have laptops.

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  • How Do We Keep Children Safe from Online Violence and the Challenges of AI

    September 18, 2025 |

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    Response Location: Romania

    In an effort to address online violence children face in the digital age, initiatives across several countries, including Spain, Romania, and Ukraine, are getting creative using theatre, media literacy training on AI and algorithms, anonymous reporting hotlines and classroom phone bans, among other strategies to help youth cope. The various initiatives have proven successful. For example, the school-wide phone ban in one Spain region resulted in a 27.42% decrease in cyberharassment cases between 2023-2024.

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  • What if diapers were free for the parents who need them most?

    September 18, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, Illinois

    Diaper Dollars provides parents in Illinois and Ohio with a $40 e-card each month that they can use at major retailers like Walmart and CVS to purchase diapers. Nearly 8,000 people have been served so far, with 10,000 projected by 2026. About 90 percent of those who went through the program reported being able to better afford other essentials like food, rent and other bills with a portion of their diaper costs covered.

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  • How mental health care in schools became the norm in Minnesota

    September 17, 2025 |

    MinnPost |

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    Response Location: United States, Hennepin County, Minnesota

    In the early 2000s, Minnesota implemented a systematic approach to address inadequate mental health access for students by contracting with outside agencies to place licensed mental health providers directly in public schools. The state expanded funding from $4.7 million in 2008 to over $20 million today, growing from therapists in just five schools to now serving 82% of the state's public school districts.

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