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  • Harm Reduction: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

    Overdose prevention centers in New York City provide a place for people with drug addictions to use drugs safely under supervision.

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  • This Ability in the Kenyan Society

    This Ability Trust is a nonprofit working to help women and girls with disabilities facing violence. Their Mama Siri program is a toll-free phone service that people with disabilities can call for information and help with things like reporting violence to the police and getting to a safe space.

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  • Sustaining the Work of Artists With a Living Wage and Benefits In Western Massachusetts

    Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, including healthcare, which resulted in responses to issues like youth mental health, food justice, and COVID-19 awareness campaigns in communities that are marginalized. From empowering youth to build community through food and farming to engaging young queer people of color, the successful six-month pilot led to a new fundraising campaign to continue and expand to seven regions across the U.S.

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  • "La cohabitation solidaire" : nouveau maillon de la politique d'intégration ?

    Depuis 2018, une dizaine d’associations en France sont habilitées par l’État afin de développer des "cohabitations solidaires". En janvier 2021, 332 cohabitations étaient en place. Pour les réfugiés, ce petit maillon de la politique d’intégration est précieux au temps du Covid. Il n'est cependant pas encadré par la loi et son impact doit encore être évalué.

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  • Sanbornton Connect(s) seniors aging in place

    Sanbornton Connect is a local information exchange and social network for aging residents who share advice about meeting the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of living out their years independently in their own homes. The network started just before the pandemic, but quickly filled a vacuum left by the community's shutdown. Three dozen residents gather monthly on Zoom to trade tips and hear from experts. The goal is to provide personal connections in a sparsely populated town, and in a way that helps people plan before they're in a crisis as their health declines.

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  • How to Vaccinate Homebound Seniors? Take the Shots to Them.

    Doctors across the U.S. are mobilizing to distribute Covid vaccines to those who are homebound and likely vulnerable to the coronavirus. Although efforts are still early, in New York, one hospital's house calls program plans to "vaccinate 100 patients a week over the next 10 weeks."

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  • If You Can't Get To Your Vaccine Appointment, These Cities Will Drive You

    Some cities across the U.S. are offering "free or cheap transportation to vaccine distribution sites" as a means of increasing access for those who don't have access to a vehicle, are unable to drive, or don't live near a vaccination site or public transportation network. In Austin, the city converted their already-existing bus and commuter rail system, which was experiencing a decline in use during the pandemic, to a curb-to-curb service.

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  • Au Centre Primo-Levi, on répare les âmes et les corps hantés par les violences et l'exil

    Depuis vingt-cinq ans, cette structure parisienne a accueilli et soigné plus de 4 100 réfugiés en provenance du monde entier, victimes de traumatismes tant physiques que psychologiques. Pour les aider : une approche pluridisciplinaire incluant médecins, kinésithérapeutes, assistantes sociales et juristes.

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  • Ils rendent un visage aux disparus

    Le Comité international de la Croix Rouge a pour mission d'aider les exilés à retrouver la trace de proches disparus et/ou perdus de vue. Grâce à un partenariat avec l'école d'ingénieurs INSA, plusieurs applications ont été créées et testées sur le terrain pour faciliter ce travail fastidieux. Les étudiants et leurs professeurs ont développé deux applications permettant d’améliorer la traçabilité des corps anonymes repêchés par les sauveteurs en mer et inhumés sans identité mais aussi pour automatiser le traitement des images des corps récupérés en mer, pour qu’elles soient regardables par les familles.

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  • Des hôtels vides accueillent des migrantes

    L’association Basiliade a eu l’idée de reconvertir des hôtels vides en centres d’hébergement social. Elle a nommé l'un d'entre eux la "Maison des Fées". 36 femmes exilées sont hébergées avec leurs bébés. Elles bénéficient d'une solution de garde pour leurs enfants, d'un soutien du personnel de l'hôtel et de travailleurs sociaux.

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