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Redefining Mobility For Children With Disabilities

Jejje Muhinde

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

Ekpali Saint

January 10, 2022 |

Prime Progress |

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800-1500 Words

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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Domestic Workers in Lebanon Are Making a Dramatic Escape

Laure Delacloche

January 07, 2022 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Lebanon

Ethiopian domestic workers stuck in Lebanon can now rely on help from an organization started by Ethiopian women who were once in their shoes. Victims of labor exploitation have a hard time escaping abusive situations, leaving them stranded in Lebanon without a place to stay or a means to get home.

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The Human Library connects people by tackling stigma and isolation

JoAnna Haugen

January 04, 2022 |

Shareable |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: Denmark, Copenhagen

Library patrons are being encouraged to have dialogues and explore diversity through The Human Library. People from various backgrounds are “on loan” to chat for 30 minutes at a time, which can lead to conversations with people who may not have ever met under any other circumstances. The aim of the project is to improve a sense of community and even to “address global challenges.”

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‘Boys and girls have equal freedom': Kerala backs gender-neutral uniforms

Hannah Ellis-Petersen KA Shaji

January 02, 2022 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: India, Kerala

In an attempt to provide ease of movement to girl students while playing, Valayanchirangara primary school introduced "gender-neutral" uniforms for all its 756 students that eliminated the earlier requirement for them to wear skirts. It has since inspired several other schools in Kerala to similarly change their uniforms and snowballed a movement, supported by the state's education minister no less, where more such measures to promote gender equality in schools are being encouraged and adapted.

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“Meet a Jew,” Germany's New Scheme to Convince the Country That Jews Are People

Peter Yeung

December 28, 2021 |

Slate |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Germany

Through the "Meet a Jew" program launched by the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Jewish volunteers visit schools, universities, sports clubs, and religious centers to share their stories with non-Jewish Germans and combat growing antisemitism. The initiative held 540 sessions in 2021 to facilitate conversations about what it means to be Jewish and how Jews fit into German society.

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Garment Workers Organize to End Wage Theft

Rucha Chitnis

December 28, 2021 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: United States, California

Legislation known as the Garment Worker Protection Act is being hailed as a game changer for workers in the fashion industry. Low wages, forced overtime, and sweatshop conditions are common for garment workers in California but the new law will hold employers. Labor rights activists across the world are taking notice.

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At-home businesses are growing. Women and people of color benefit the most

Chabeli Carrazana

December 27, 2021 |

The 19th |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Local laws that allow people to use their homes as a hub for their at-home businesses are providing more entrepreneurial opportunities, specifically for women and people of color. There’s already evidence that these new regulations are leading to more women starting businesses, as the number of businesses owned by women grew by 27% during the pandemic.

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The Prisoner-Run Radio Station That's Reaching Men on Death Row

Keri Blakinger

December 20, 2021 |

The Marshall Project |

Multi-Media |

1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Livingston, Texas

At Texas’ Polunsky Unit, 106.5FM The Tank is a prison radio station run by and for the prison's incarcerated men, including nearly 200 on death row for whom the radio's shows form "a community center for men who can never leave their cells." The death-row prisoners, like many others in the prison, live in solitary confinement with no access to classes, jobs, or TVs. But they are allowed radios, and the prison warden allowed the creation of The Tank using donated equipment. Shows range from advice and religion to music of all sorts. All the shows are recorded as a security precaution.

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Burlington, Vt., ‘defunded' its police force. Here's what followed.

Emily R. Siegel Hannah Rappleye Stephanie Gosk

December 19, 2021 |

NBC News |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

In Burlington, a city of progressive politics with a police department long seen as forward-looking, city leaders' decision in June 2020 to respond to social-justice protests by cutting the police force by 30% has backfired in a number of ways. By moving quickly without an analysis of optimal staffing or how to shift duties to other agencies, the "defund police" measure prompted more police resignations than expected. Residents complain about conditions on downtown streets that make them feel unsafe. The city has since restored some of the police positions while moving more deliberately toward alternatives.

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