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  • Local School Lunch Program Expands To Continue Feeding Children During Pandemic

    May 10, 2021 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Georgia schools provided lunches for students participating in virtual learning through curbside pickup or delivered food to their homes with school buses during the pandemic.

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  • Jirogasy's solar computers power offgrid schools in Madagascar

    May 03, 2021 |

    Hardware Things |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Madagascar, Antananarivo

    Jirogasy developed solar-powered computers and, maximizing a partnership with an education NGO, has helped expand computer access among rural schools without access to a grid. Using internationally-funded grants, they created the Jirodesk II, a Windows 10 powered PC that can be powered by the grid or charged via a solar panel. The computers are monitored remotely, which allows users to quickly get tech support, and the company monitors usage in Watt-hours for its “pay-per-use-until-you own model,” where users pay per number of Watt-hours used, and after a certain number of Watt-hours the machine is paid off.

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  • ‘What difference would that make?'

    April 30, 2021 |

    The Chicago Reader |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    A participatory budgeting pilot in ten Chicago Public Schools empowers students to influence change by deciding how small grants, typically $1,000 to $2,000, should be spent for school improvement. Students brainstorm ideas, construct persuasive proposals, and vote on which to implement, providing valuable lessons in civic participation. The proposals revealed student needs that staff hadn’t previously considered. Ultimately, grants supported gender-neutral bathrooms, locker room shower curtains, a peer mentoring program, and spaces for students to reflect and decompress when feeling overwhelmed.

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  • Clues to makes resident life work found during pandemic

    April 29, 2021 |

    The Laconia Daily Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Laconia, New Hampshire

    Nursing homes adapted to COVID-19 so that they could protect residents’ physical well-being while also preserving their social and emotional health. Staff at Belknap County Nursing Home modified popular activities to make them safe, like hallway bingo, where numbers were called from hallways so that residents could stay in or near their rooms. Participation jumped 30% from pre-pandemic levels. An adaptation to another popular game, “Price is Right,” had staff bringing items, like snacks and toiletries, room-to-room so that residents could guess the price, with the person coming closest winning the item.

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  • How going solar is helping U.S. schools save millions

    April 29, 2021 |

    Mashable |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States

    School districts in the United States are switching to solar power to save money on utilities and sell extra power back to the power grid. They use the savings to increase teachers' pay and upgrade facilities like buses and computer labs.

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  • How Senegal stretched its health care system to stop Covid-19

    April 28, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    Senegal limited COVID-19 cases in the pandemic’s first year using an existing infrastructure built from dealing with Ebola outbreaks. Coordinated emergency response teams quickly expanded testing capacity across the country and positive cases were required to quarantine in hotels or health centers, where Red Cross volunteers staffed the beds, rather than at home. Village health workers, who were trusted community members, educated people on how to respond to the virus, helped reduce the stigma of the virus, and urged people to follow the strict social distancing, masking, and quarantining rules.

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  • In Dallas' food deserts, community gardens ease — but don't end — food insecurity

    April 27, 2021 |

    Dallas Morning News |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    A resolution in Austin, Texas, allows community gardens to use public land. It also created the City of Austin Community Garden Program to help people find partnerships and apply to create a garden. The government support allowed more community gardens to open and help fight food insecurity across the city.

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  • Captured and Converted: How Methane Powers Art in Western North Carolina

    April 27, 2021 |

    The Bitter Southerner |

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    Response Location: United States, Dillsboro, North Carolina

    Jackson County Green Energy Park uses methane leaking from a closed landfill to power blacksmithing and glassblowing studios. The county cleared 550 tons of loose debris and drilled thirteen 70-80-foot wells to capture the methane gas produced by bacteria digesting organic material, the 3rd leading human-caused type of greenhouse gas emissions. The studios, which offset the equivalent of taking nearly 1,000 vehicles off the road, also provide less expensive and more accessible studio spaces that have launched the careers of several artists. Reuse projects can capture up to 90% of a landfill’s methane.

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  • How Project Dastaan is helping survivors of the 1947 India-Pakistan partition reconnect to their ancestral homes

    April 25, 2021 |

    The National |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: India

    Refugees and survivors of the 1947 India-Pakistan partition reconnect to their homes through virtual reality footage of their homes and villages. The initiative, Project Dastaan, seeks to provide emotional closure to people who had to flee their homes in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. It also allows the children and grandchildren of survivors to gain a better understanding of their own histories and the trauma experienced by their loved ones. The digital experiences aim to raise awareness of the impact of the conflict and promote peace between the countries.

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  • Africa's Wikipedia Editors Are Changing How the World Sees Their Continent

    April 12, 2021 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: South Africa

    WikiAfrica Education increases information about Africa’s diverse languages, cultures, and politics from the voices and perspectives of African people. AfroCuration events enlist the help of young people to create and edit content for Wikipedia. The volunteers receive lessons on democracy and freedom movements and then use that information to create profiles of key events and history-makers. Strategic partnerships provide technical support and other resources, which have enabled hundreds of young people to produce hundreds of new entries and translate many existing entries into indigenous languages.

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