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  • Virginia clean energy job training program climbs its own learning curve

    January 25, 2022 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    To ensure that marginalized communities, include Black residents and the formerly incarcerated, have the skills and opportunity to be a part of the growing solar and energy-efficiency industry in the community, Bridging the Gap offers free, intensive solar-training courses to them.

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  • The Ohio Organization Rekindling Indigenous Foodways

    January 21, 2022 |

    Belt Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbus, Ohio

    The Native American Indian Center of Central Ohio opened a food truck that sells Indigenous cuisine to boost public awareness of the Native American community and increase intertribal and inter-generational knowledge sharing.

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  • Asher Craig: 'We are walking our talk' in Bristol's experiment in democracy

    January 19, 2022 |

    Bristol 24/7 |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    A year after Bristol convened a randomly selected 60-person citizens’ assembly, which brought together a representative and diverse group of residents to tackle complex issues facing the city, they have delivered a set of recommendations. The panel produced 17 recommendations, with a total of 82 associated actions on three topics: climate, transport and health. Fourteen recommendations have been fully agreed to and eight have been dismissed. Participants also report positive effects of being able to work together across diverse ideologies and experiences, as well as from the civic participation more broadly.

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  • Strengthening Surveillance and Vaccine Uptake to Curb the Transmission of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus in Kano State

    January 17, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Kano

    Outbreak Response teams travel from house to house in Kano, Nigeria, making sure children are vaccinated against wild poliovirus to prevent its spread.

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  • More voters, less party affiliation 2 years into automatic voter registration

    January 16, 2022 |

    The Nevada Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Nevada

    Nevada’s automatic voter registration (AVR) system has added over 320,000 new voters since its launch in 2020, expanding access to many. Unless they opt out, the AVR system automatically registers eligible voters, or updates their voter information, whenever they complete a transaction with the DMV. Since they are registered as nonpartisan by default, it has diversified the state’s voter pool. Officials still perform checks and balance to keep voter rolls clean, including the Electronic Registration Information Center that compares voter registration data between states to identify out-of-date records.

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  • Redefining Mobility For Children With Disabilities

    January 11, 2022 |

    Rwanda Dispatch |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Angel Rider Wheelchairs provides free wheelchairs to children across Rwanda. The group constructs and distributes the wheelchairs themselves and coordinates with the National Council of Persons with Disabilities, who provides a list of children nominated to receive one. Access to the wheelchairs have changed the quality of life for many of the children, allowing them to attend school and other social activities for the first time in their lives. The non-profit has donated over 2,000 wheelchairs in the last five years.

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  • The alternative learning experience for children during lock down through football talent development

    January 10, 2022 |

    Metro FM 90.8 |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Wakiso

    Kick-off soccer academy provides young people with mentorship, education, and talent development. It was created by a group of young friends during the COVID-19 pandemic after they noticed many young people getting into drugs and alcohol while out of school during pandemic-related shutdowns. The team, who mobilizes parents and caretakers so that they buy into the program’s benefits, serves almost 100 young people. The program develops the athletic skills of the young people but also increases their self-esteem and responsibility.

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  • Asthma affects thousands of Oakland kids. These residents are working to prevent it

    January 10, 2022 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    To help prevent children with asthma from missing school and being hospitalized Asthma Start provides their families with education and resources like mattress and pillow covers and cleaning supplies.

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  • The Feeling Of Freedom After Prolonged "Awaiting Trial" In A Nigerian Prison

    January 10, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    Considering the overwhelming number of low-income inmates awaiting trial in Nigeria due to lack of legal representation, Heafort Foundation takes up such cases and provides legal services free of cost. Since 2019, the foundation has helped about 200 inmates get out of jail while also supporting them with the means to complete their education or learn new skills so they can restart their lives again.

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  • Cross River State ministry of health Leveraged on Polio campaign to integrate Covid vaccination

    January 07, 2022 |

    Sparkling 92.3 FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Cross River

    To vaccinate eligible adults against COVID-19, the health ministry distributed vaccines to adults alongside an already established campaign that vaccinates children against Polio. The existing vaccination structure helped health officials bring COVID-19 vaccines to communities and increased communities’ trust of the vaccine, since it was administered alongside the established and trusted Polio campaign. When children under 5 years old received their Polio vaccine all eligible adults are offered the COVID-19 vaccine. Over 100,000 people were vaccinated for COVID-19 during the campaign.

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