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  • The New Abortion Underground

    Stephania Taladrid David Remnick

    October 10, 2022 |

    WNYC |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Mexico, Guanajuato

    By working with a nonprofit, Las Libres, in Guanajuato, Mexico, volunteers are helping women access medication for abortions for free. Las Libres organizes the supply chain to get the medication to those in need in abortion-ban states in the United States.

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  • Scholarship Scheme Is Promoting Tertiary Education In Northern Nigeria

    Abdulwasiu Olokooba

    October 10, 2022 |

    Campus Echoes |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    The nonprofit Abdulkabir Aliu Foundation provides scholarships for over 300 students in Nigeria to pursue tertiary education and help reduce the number of illiterate adults in the country.

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  • Record Heat Waves And Droughts Can't Dry Up This Native Garden In Phoenix

    Gabriel Pietrorazio

    October 10, 2022 |

    Next City |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    To tend their urban garden in extreme heat, the healthcare clinic Native Health of Phoenix partners with two nonprofits, Keep Phoenix Beautiful and the Salt River Project, to use flood irrigation techniques built on Huhugam agricultural practices and canals. Every other week during the hottest months 1,600 gallons of water flow through the garden and drain out.

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  • Where will new teachers come from? Community colleges offer a path.

    Janelle Retka

    October 06, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Teaching programs at community colleges allow people to earn teaching degrees at their convenience, around their schedule, and for cheaper than university programs. These programs are helping to reduce the teacher shortage in the states they are available.

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  • What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay

    Noah Gallagher Shannon

    October 05, 2022 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

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    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: Uruguay

    Uruguay has turned to biomass, solar, and wind energy to transition to a 98% renewable energy grid that decreased over half a billion dollars from their annual budget along with their carbon footprint.

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  • What's Working (and who isn't)

    Mike Holfeld Robert Breuer Angel Blazquez

    October 05, 2022 |

    Solutionaries |

    Video |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    Businesses and initiatives across the country are looking to support employees, employers, and unions together. One example is the Ironworkers Apprenticeship Program, a paid training program that is open to anyone regardless of their skills or previous experience. At the end of the four-year program, participants are completely certified for the ironworking trade at no cost. In fact, program participants are able to earn money while they learn and set themselves up for union jobs that provide good salaries and benefits, while filling the growing number of ironworking jobs.

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  • Human urine turned into ‘gold' to boost agricultural productivity in Rwanda

    Aimable Twahirwa

    October 05, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Rwanda

    Fertilizer produced from human urine is a more affordable option for Rwandan farmers and is better for the soil than chemical-based fertilizers. Though it was initially produced to improve fertilizer affordability, it has also become a source of income for those who sell their urine to the producers.

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  • Forced Marriage, Domestic Violence: Kashmiri Women Reach Out To A ‘Close Friend' For Help

    Hameeda Syed

    October 04, 2022 |

    Article14 |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: India, Rajbagh

    Mehram, a woman-led collective in India, provides legal aid and counseling for survivors of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

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  • Saving business and upgrading the city: how entrepreneurs get relocation help in Ivano-Frankivsk

    Maria Smyk

    October 03, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk

    The Save Business Now initiative in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is helping businesses to relocate from dangerous areas of the country. Businesses fill out an online application about their needs so the organization can help them through the process of looking for a new location and connect them with experts and other businesses for support.

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  • Dual-language immersion: 'Only a matter of time' for New Hampshire?

    Meg McIntyre

    October 01, 2022 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Teachers are practicing dual-language immersion by teaching content in English and the student's native tongue to help prevent loss of fluency in their first language while learning the new one.

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