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How the Most Dangerous Place on Earth Got Safer

Sonia Nazario

August 11, 2016 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Honduras, San Pedro Sula

The gang-driven violence in Honduras has caused thousands to migrate to the United States. In the last three years, with emergency international aid from the United States, Honduras has experienced a 62 percent drop in homicides and has witnessed a decrease in the number of migrants entering the United States. The aid has gone toward community improvement projects and outreach centers, such as providing items for soccer games and other activities that dissuade gangsters from fighting each other. It also has supported more effective prosecution of homicides.

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Young Atlantans Get a Jump-Start to Tech Jobs

Cassandra Maddox

August 11, 2016 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

A successful entrepreneur in Atlanta created a training program for high school graduates between 18-24 to encourage coding proficiency and professional development. The year-long program, called Code Start, gives each student a living stipend, facilitates meetings between students and tech companies, and offers classes on Java and other programs.

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The City That Unpoisoned Its Pipes

Anna Clark

August 08, 2016 |

Next City |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Lansing, Michigan

The water crisis in Flint, Michigan, has left the city in dire straits without funds or political will to replace its lead pipes. Less than fifty-miles away, the city of Lansing has managed to replace almost all of its pipes, even during the Great Recession. Between Flint and Lansing, divergent approaches to management of utilities, funds, and citizen health provide extraordinary lessons about what worked and what caused the failures.

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Connecting social justice and black identity at a national debate camp in Baltimore

Jonna McKone

August 04, 2016 |

WYPR |

Multi-Media |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

In the past, debate teams have lacked diversity and have been mostly compromised by white students. Beginning in the 1990s, Urban Debate Leagues engaged minority students and challenged the traditional style of debate, which was disconnected from communities of color. In cities like Baltimore, students of color are encouraged to debate by talking about their “black identity and structural racism.”

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Meet the Ex-Inmate Whose Successful Prison Rehab Program Goes Beyond Drug Treatment

Melissa Hellmann

August 04, 2016 |

Yes! Magazine |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

Led by peers and providing everything from group therapy to tips on how to build credit, the Timelist program works with the recently paroled as well as the presently incarcerated to reduce recidivism. Seven years after it started, Timelist’s comprehensive approach has a perfect record of it’s graduates staying out of prison.

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Inside Rio's favelas, the city's impoverished, neglected neighborhoods

Johnny Harris

August 01, 2016 |

Vox |

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5-15 Minutes

Response Location: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro

Favelas, what some people might perceive as gang-filled slums surrounding the developed part of Rio de Janeiro, are in fact brimming with creative resilience that demonstrates the ingenuity of people in the face of a government that turns its back on them. Though gangs do exist, there are photographers attempting to show all views of the city. One man has transformed a trash hill into a garden. Others have built governing authorities to support their neighborhoods. All these people continue to innovate in the face of daily challenges.

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Schools nurture students' agriculture interests

Stephanie Anderson Witmer

July 30, 2016 |

USA Today |

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Response Location: United States, Millersville, Pennsylvania

The Agriculture Education program at Penn Manor High school aims to teach about career paths as a farmer or within the larger agricultural industry. This type of high school education is part of a larger national trend to use agricultural education to teach STEM skills and better equip students to enter a technology- and innovation-based agriculture sector.

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Welcome to Brazil, Where a Food Revolution Is Changing the Way People Eat

Bridget Huber

July 28, 2016 |

The Nation (New York) |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Brazil

Since the 1970s, obesity rates in Brazil have been increasing proportionally with the amount of "ultra-processed" foods being consumed. Foregoing healthy, locally produced food has not only resulted in a health epidemic, but has also contributed to a deteriorating economy, strains on the environment, and decaying of culture. Brazil's new food guide and school lunch programme are both founded on the premise of taking a holistic approach to eating, going beyond calorie count to address the environmental, cultural and social elements to food consumption.

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Chronically Absent: Is Quality Education in Juvenile Detention Possible in Mississippi?

Sierra Mannie

July 27, 2016 |

Jackson Free Press |

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Response Location: United States, Pelahatchie, Mississippi

Many years of work to improve juvenile-detention centers in Mississippi may curb recidivism rates by increasing the quality of life in detention. Despite those efforts, however, centers might still be unable to give detained students what they need the most—a quality education.

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How Malawi Girls Combat Sexual Abuse – Self Defense

Hannah McNeish

July 26, 2016 |

News Deeply |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Malawi, Dedza

Sexual abuse and rape are frequent and accepted parts of the social fabric in Malawi. To combat that, Malawi girls and boys take self defense classes to learn how to avert assault in order to protect themselves and others.

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