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  • The doctor from Myanmar faced with 1 million patients and a plague of rats

    Danielle Stephens
    2018-08-01 22:00:15 UTC
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    June 20, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Myanmar

    A doctor faced with a public health crisis in his remote Myanmar village called on an UK organization to help him enact a solution. Rather than trying to treat hundreds of patients a day, the doctor started a local branch of Health and Hope to train a man and a women from each small village in his region. Now, residents of these villages don't have to die from treatable diseases because a local health expert is nearby.

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  • What We Can Learn From Ghana's Obsession With Preschool

    Nurith Aizenman, Gregory Warner
    2018-06-24 23:59:00 UTC
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    June 19, 2018 |

    NPR |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Ghana, Accra

    When a group of preschool teachers in Ghana were taught about child-centered and open-ended learning as an alternative to a traditional rote memorization approach, they saw improvements in students' pre-literacy and pre-numeracy scores. The intervention served as a response to revelations of poor performance among early elementary school students. This despite the fact that 80 percent of 3 year olds in Accra, Ghana were enrolled in preschool. While some teachers have successfully rolled out the collaborative style in their classrooms, others have been met with significant cultural resistance.

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  • Young Nigerians choose to fight Boko Haram with books

    Ryan Lenora Brown
    2018-08-28 19:04:00 UTC
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    June 19, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    Gathered in makeshift open-air learning spaces, teachers and students in Nigeria are resisting Boko Haram's reign of terror against education. “They don’t like education; they don’t want it,” one 19-year old student says. “So just by doing this, we are all fighting them." Working with UNICEF and other organizations, local educators are offering free education to students who have been forced to stay home for years.

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  • Want to start a preschool at home? Wonderschool can help

    Carolyn Said
    2018-09-23 19:44:34 UTC
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    June 18, 2018 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    To address the lack of licensed child care centers, a San Francisco startup has helped to start 150 in-home care centers in the Bay area, LA, and New York. Wonderschool works closely with caregivers, providing consultation on the space and structure of the preschool and taking care of the administrative and marketing aspects of the business. "Two of the biggest costs to operate a child care program are real estate and administration,” CEO Chris Bennett says. “By using their own homes and Wonderschool’s administration software, directors are able to cut out those costs.”

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  • Literacy push: L.A. libraries allow young people to read away their fines

    Dean Paton
    2018-10-01 01:41:21 UTC
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    June 18, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    After realizing that their system of fines for lost and late books was actually preventing kids and young people from reading more, L.A. libraries instituted a new program that's already showing results. The program, the Great Read Away, is an opportunity for kids to "read away" their fines, erasing $5 of the fine for each hour spent reading. "During the program’s first 11 months, young readers logged 1.6 million minutes of reading time, and 10,000 accounts were cleared completely of fines."

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  • This Indian women's union invented a flexible childcare model

    Miranda Hall
    2018-07-09 04:30:57 UTC
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    June 18, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India

    Affordable and flexible child care allows female informal workers to earn more money and frees older children to attend school. One model that works well comes from the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India, which operates 13 centers, each caring for 130-400 children. SEWA offers quality care, pays employees living wages, and boasts high parent involvement.

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  • Rising up to open opportunities in the arts

    Sandi Dheensa
    2018-07-16 02:28:09 UTC
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    June 18, 2018 |

    The Bristol Cable |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Bristol

    Breaking into the creative sector can be daunting. Rising Arts Agency increases access to mentorship, including by bringing young people of color to cultural institutions after hours. The program benefits everyone. The youth get to quiz the staff about career opportunities while the staff have an opportunity to learn how to better serve young people interested in the arts.

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  • Art for kids: the workshops changing the lives of Bogota's poorest

    Jack Graham
    2019-04-02 19:46:22 UTC
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    June 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Participation in art and music improves cognitive development and fosters social skills in young children. In Bogotá, Columbia, a program developed by Nidos: Art in Early Childhood provides tens of thousands of children access to creative art workshops. The organization employs artists, musicians, and other creative professionals, working in partnership with government departments to identify and serve the poorest populations in the city.

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  • Dallas Renaming Schools That Have Confederate Names

    Brianna Williams
    2018-11-21 01:56:50 UTC
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    June 14, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Confederate monuments are being removed all over the country as a response to white supremacy. Dallas Independent School District is following the lead, after the board decided to rename three elementary schools which formerly had names associated with the confederacy. “We believe we must directly confront inequities in school.”

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  • In Morocco, women find a recipe for success and gainful employment

    Stéphanie Jacob
    2018-09-04 16:58:37 UTC
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    June 14, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Morocco, Marrakesh

    The Marrakesh-based Amal for the Culinary Arts offers Moroccan women from disadvantaged backgrounds free training in order to become culinary chefs. Through the program they get hands on experience. They also help them find a job. Already, around 200 women have gone through the program, and six have created their own businesses.

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  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, searchable database of solutions journalism stories — rigorous reporting about responses to social problems. We vet and tag every story in the Story Tracker, which offers an inspiring and useful collection of the thousands of ways people are working to solve problems around the world.

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  • Story collections are curated by our staff or other partners to explore a theme, pattern, or trend via selected solutions stories and external resources. Some story collections focus on an in-depth exploration of a topic with solutions journalism; others highlight journalists and how they report on topics. Certain story collections include discussion questions and notes, so that educators and community discussion leaders can lead learners to fully engage with the stories.

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  • After you submit a story to us and assign it a topic, it is sent to one of our Solutions Story Tracker team members. Our team member evaluates the story for the four qualities of solutions journalism, and on the basics: The story must come from a news outlet and have a date and a byline. If the story meets our criteria, our team tags it accordingly and adds it to the database. If the story falls short of the mark, our team will include the reason why. We include stories in the Story Tracker that meet our standards of solutions journalism. Inclusion does not mean we support the initiatives, policies, organizations or approaches featured in those stories.

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  • Solutions Journalism Network features these stories in the searchable database making them publicly accessible to anyone who wants to search for rigorous reporting on solutions to social problems. Any story that is added has the potential to make more impact than its original purpose. Added stories are used in journalism trainings, school curricula, research projects, and independent analysis on issue area trends. This now includes artificial intelligence tools, which are applied for educational value to find stories and support story vetting, as well as to extract insights from the stories. SJN has digital products and newsletters that give new life and exposure to the stories meeting people where they are at. Story data also is used to develop innovative tools to reach the general public with solutions journalism as well as some specific research projects requested by researchers. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of story data or added stories, please contact Lita Tirak.

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