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From 'Identity Search', She Built A Movement Against Mental Illness

Ekpali Saint

August 05, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

Victoria Restored Minds provides therapeutic and emotional support to people facing mental health challenges. With its team of counselors, therapists, and psychologists, VRM has provided counseling, therapy, and general support to about 2,000 people.

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Enabled to Enable: How NGO is changing narrative for PwDs in Cross River state

Umo Akwang

August 05, 2022 |

Legit.ng |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

Enabled to Enable provides vocational skills training to disabled individuals. So far, the skills training has reached about 129 women and girls, empowering them to find jobs and even start their own businesses despite their disabilities.

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After a series of medical issues, Tarrant County Jail hired this nurse to advocate for inmates.

Alexis Allison

August 03, 2022 |

Fort Worth Report |

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Response Location: United States, Texas

Texas’ Tarrant County Jail has a medical liaison that uses her master’s degree in forensics nursing to advocate for people who are incarcerated and in need of medical care.

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NYC's Newest Gigabit Center Aims to Close the Bronx's Digital Divide

Emily Nonko

August 03, 2022 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

The free, public WiFi network LinkNYC addresses the digital divide exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. LinkNYC replaces old payphone kiosks and provides high-speed WiFi hotspots and allow for phone calls, device charging and access to social services and local information.

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Oasis in the Desert: Walker River Paiute Tribe Builds Food Pantry

Jan Pytalski

August 03, 2022 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Schurz, Nevada

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic making access to groceries more difficult, The Walker River Paiute Tribe created a food pantry to support members of the tribe and local farmers. The food pantry has since become the largest in the state, by volume of distributed food, having distributed about 6,500 bags of food to over 355 households.

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‘Better for democracy': Two US cities offer Arabic voting ballots

Ali Harb

August 03, 2022 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: United States, Michigan

Municipal officials in two southeast Michigan communities exercised their local governing power to bypass federal voting legislation that does not include Arab Americans among the "disenfranchised communities" with a right to receive election ballots in their first language. Through a city council resolution and collaboration among county officials, the Michigan Secretary of State, and Dominion Voting Systems, the cities offered Arabic ballots for the 2022 state primary, which is thought to be the first example of Arabic-language ballots being offered in a state-organized election in the United States.

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Solar power opens the door to banking for rural Indians

Moushumi Basu

August 03, 2022 |

Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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Response Location: India, Maharashtra

In Aitawade Budruk the switch to solar power is not just reducing carbon emissions but addressing issues of frequent power cuts and lack of internet connectivity faced by the local bank. As a result, the bank has opened new accounts at a much higher rate than before, and communities have been able to properly access government financial services for the first time.

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Limited access to financial services pushes informal business owners to embrace classical saving schemes

Ndabarasa Eugene

August 01, 2022 |

Royal FM |

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Response Location: Rwanda, Kigali

Savings groups called Tontines gather members engaged in informal business, like street merchants, to access financing through peer-to-peer banking and lending. Tontines allow lower-income individuals who typically fail to qualify for bank loans to access financial services and learn to save and manage their money.

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Free school meals helped families during the pandemic. This fall, those lunches won't return.

Nadra Nittle

August 01, 2022 |

The 19th |

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Response Location: United States

Several studies have shown the link between universal free school meals and higher academic performance, improved nutrition and health, and better behavior. Children who deal with food insecurity often receive “most of their dietary needs at school.”

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How BFF is reintegrating obstetric fistula patients back into society

Sola Abe

July 28, 2022 |

Social Voices |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

The Bashir Fistula Foundation (BFF) provides free surgeries to remedy obstetric fistula, as well as rehabilitation services to integrate patients back into society. Since the organization was formed in 2018, approximately 98 women have benefitted from free surgical intervention.

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