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  • A Mentorship Programme Is Turning Young PWDs Into A Thriving Workforce

    Nathaniel Bivan

    July 22, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The Peniel Foundation virtually connects people with disabilities with mentors to help them learn to achieve their goals, level up their career skills to access to better jobs and become financially independent. Since forming, the foundation has seen thousands join the program and go on to have great success in their careers and personal lives.

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  • Sale of Carbon Curbing Mangrove Loss Along Kenyan Coast

    Sharon Atieno

    July 22, 2022 |

    Science Africa |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    The Vanga Blue Forest group manages mangrove regrowth to conserve the plants, prevent deforestation, and sell carbon credits. These credits are purchased by individuals or companies to offset their carbon emissions by supporting a project limiting or eliminating emissions elsewhere.

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  • The country trailblazing the fight against disasters

    Catherine Davison

    July 19, 2022 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Bangladesh

    Bangladesh has developed a multi-layered early warning system for disasters that includes good weather monitoring equipment, communication systems to broadcast warnings, and importantly, a network of trusted volunteers – half of which are women – who go out into communities to share information and urge people to evacuate to shelters. The opportunity has also empowered women, both as volunteers and with the ability to make the decision to evacuate during a natural disaster.

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  • This San Francisco Supper Club Gives Youth a Chance to Reinvent Themselves

    Gabrielle Lawrence

    July 18, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Old Skool Café provides opportunities for youth, particularly those who were formerly incarcerated and/or in foster care, to gain life skills, job training, and receive help managing their finances, writing resumes and cover letters, build people skills, and strengthen interpersonal communication. The restaurant allows the youth to train for every position in an industry that generates 25% of the area’s jobs.

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  • SPECIAL REPORT: Facing high wheat prices, Nigerian bakers turn to potato puree

    Ronald Adamolekun

    July 14, 2022 |

    Premium Times |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Bakers in Nigeria make bread with orange-fleshed sweet potatoes to help offset the growing cost of producing bread with just wheat flour.

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  • Ukrainian vegan cuisine: how volunteers in Uzhhorod organize healthy food for displaced people

    Ksenia Yanus Oleksandr Masovets

    July 14, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Uzhhorod

    The volunteer-run Vegan Kitchen of Ukraine project provides vegan meals for displaced people in cities across the country and sends meal packages to soldiers. The volunteers prepare the food in their homes or during donated time at local kitchens.

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  • She Writes Woman: Giving Mental Health a Voice in Nigeria

    Folakemi Ajala

    July 11, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    She Writes Woman, provides safe spaces for those in need to receive mental healthcare services. As of this year, She Writes Woman receives about 200 calls on its toll-free helpline each day, serving a community of about 45,000 people.

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  • MUAC Approach, enabling Timely Diagnosis of Severe Malnutrition

    Hasifah Namuli

    July 06, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda

    Mid-Upper Arm Circumference (MUAC) tapes are color-coded measuring tapes that help parents and healthcare workers to determine if a child is malnourished by measuring the circumference of their arm. Using the MUAC tapes empowers parents to identify and address the signs of malnutrition, rather than relying exclusively on healthcare providers.

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  • Here to Stay: How Spain's migrants self-organized to fight for their rights

    Majo Siscar Banyuls Laura Herrero Garvín

    June 23, 2022 |

    The GroundTruth Project |

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    Response Location: Spain

    Mujeres Migrantes Diversas was founded by women working in domestic service and caregiving jobs and provides mutual support networks and services to migrant women in informal sectors. They provide food assistance, help finding safe shelter, workshops on gender and labor rights, Catalan language classes, and support with immigration procedures among other support services.

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  • How the Yurok Tribe Is Bringing Back the California Condor

    Sharon Levy

    June 22, 2022 |

    Undark |

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    Response Location: Yurok Nation, United States, California

    At a condor facility in Redwood National Park, the Yurok Tribe is raising young California condors to be released into the wild in an effort to increase the population of the critically endangered species.

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