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  • Greece: Dental care for refugees

    Marius Reichert
    2022-09-29 15:03:39 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    Deutsche Welle (DW) |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Greece, Chios

    A father/daughter dentist duo provides dental services to refugees in need of care by setting up a pop-up clinic at a refugee camp on the Greek island of Chios. The pop-up clinic provides much-needed dental care to the refugees who haven’t had the ability to care for their teeth during their journey to Europe and dentists from around the world will take turns staffing the clinic on a volunteer basis.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -1

    Ruth Keah
    2023-05-19 18:50:11 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa ilitumia wahudumu wa afya wakujitolea kutoa hamasa kwa jamii kuhusu umuhimu wa kuweka mazingira safi.Kila mhudumu wa afya alipewa nyumba 50 za kutembelea na kuwahamasisha wanajamii kuhusu maswala ya afya hasa homa ya dengue.Hatua iliyopelekea kupungua kwa visa vya homa ya dengue.

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  • For Nigerians hoping to study abroad, there are many hurdles to scale

    Gbadegesin Adeyanju
    2022-09-13 10:59:53 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    Platform Times |

    Text |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria

    The i-Scholar Initiative is one of a growing number of individual and organizational efforts to support Nigerian students looking to study abroad. The initiative helps fund the cost of international graduate examinations, provides scholarships to fund their education, and connects students to peer mentors who can guide them through the application and admission process.

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  • Juhudi za kupunguza mkurupuko wa homa ya Dengue Mombasa Part -2

    Ruth Keah
    2023-05-22 16:51:53 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    RadioRahma |

    Radio |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Kenya

    Ili kukabili mkurupuko wa homa ya dengue, serikali ya kaunti ya Mombasa pia iliajiri vijana waliozibua mitaro ya maji taka na kutibu visima vya maji kila eneo bunge. Wakazi pia walishauriwa kujipaka mafuta ya kufukuza mbu na kuvaa nguo ndefu za kufunika miguu.

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  • This Support Group Is Helping Youths Overcome Drug, Substance Abuse In Kaduna

    Isaac Oritogun
    2023-02-22 19:02:56 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    HumAngle |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Kaduna

    The Youth Orphans and Widows Empowerment organization works to help young people experiencing addiction through various projects including psychosocial support and connections to organizations that help them develop skills and find housing. Over the years the group has linked dozens of people to different treatments, as well as vocational training to help them find jobs.

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  • Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There's a Model to Avert the Worst.

    Henry Fountain
    2022-09-12 19:25:59 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Yakama Nation, United States, Yakima, Washington

    Several years of collaboration and compromise between many stakeholders led to the creation of the Yakima Basin Integrated Plan to better manage the river's water supply over the next 30 years.

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  • Tribal, Arizona and Pima County officials work to reunify families

    Caitlin Schmidt
    2023-12-09 20:21:13 UTC
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    September 05, 2022 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Lawyers, tribes, state agencies, judges, social workers, and a law professor in Arizona worked together to create the Pima County Superior Court's Indian Child Welfare Act Court. Since the court is specialized, cases are processed faster, outcomes have improved, and it protects the best interests of Native American children throughout the process.

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  • The hospital train helping Ukraine's sick and wounded

    Amandas Og
    2022-09-09 19:49:44 UTC
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    September 04, 2022 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Ukraine

    In Ukraine, Médecins Sans Frontières, or Doctors Without Borders, operates a specialized train service to transport patients from hospitals in battle-torn areas of the country to facilities in safer regions. The train, which is outfitted with beds, generators for medical equipment, and an intensive care unit, has evacuated more than 1,000 people in critical need of treatment so far, including those with war-related injuries as well as chronic health concerns.

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  • How a St. Louis church is teaching teens to fly. ‘It really changed everything for me.'

    Erin Heffernan
    2022-09-20 19:48:05 UTC
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    September 04, 2022 |

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chesterfield, Missouri

    The six-week, all-expense-paid, Red Tail Cadet Program teaches high school students to fly and prepares them to pursue a pilot’s license or study aviation in college. The flight school gives students an opportunity they might otherwise be unable to afford with hopes of diversifying the industry.

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  • District buy-in crucial to making Fredericktown latchkey program work

    Grant Pepper
    2022-09-07 00:24:04 UTC
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    September 03, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Fredericktown, Ohio

    A latchkey program made possible by a variety of community support provides a place for elementary students to be cared for before and after school if their parents cannot drop them off or pick them up at the designated times.

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  • Solutions journalism…
    • Describes a response to a problem and how it works.
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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.

  • You can learn more about how we source, vet, and tag stories here, as well as how we share them. We also have video tutorials in Spanish and French that show how to use the Solutions Story Tracker to find what you need.

  • 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.

  • The Solutions Story Tracker® is powered by user submissions. We encourage submissions from journalists, as well as from anyone who has an eye for solutions journalism. Click here to submit. (Why submit? So many reasons!)

  • You can submit a story directly on the Solutions Story Tracker®. You will be prompted to register or log into the Solutions Journalism Network website, if you are already logged in. (It is free to register!) Logging in allows you to track the status of your submissions under My Profile, as well as save your favorite stories, create story collections and story alerts, and access other helpful features of our website.

  • 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.

    Discover common reasons why a story may miss the mark for inclusion in the Solutions Story Tracker®.

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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.

  • News outlets determine whether all users can access their stories — and some limit the number of stories that anyone can view, or require a subscription. The majority of stories in the database can be accessed for free.

  • We work with journalists, academic researchers and others who feel that our database will support their research. We are especially interested in research that seeks to develop new insights about solutions journalism and its spread and its impact on social problems. Please complete all sections of the Data Request Form, and we will contact you to discuss your request in greater detail.

  • We do not fact-check the stories in the Solutions Story Tracker®. We do ensure that each story comes from a credible news source that has its own editorial infrastructure.

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