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Mass treatment helps Uganda to eliminate trachoma

Lillian Namusoke Magezi

August 14, 2018 |

New Vision |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Uganda

Trachoma is the world's leading cause of preventable blindness, but mass antibiotic treatment helped rural Ugandans reduce trachoma cases. By instituting a treatment plan that met rural residents where they live, educating people about the importance of hygiene, and encouraging the use of latrines instead of open defecation, many Ugandan villages are mostly trachoma-free.

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Paris residents peeved at very public eco-friendly urinals

Jack Hunter

August 13, 2018 |

Reuters |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: France, Paris

Parisians want the city to remove recently-installed public urinals. Pitched as an “eco solution to public peeing,” the toilets are gross, ugly and discriminatory, say outraged residents.

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The Bay Area's Regional Funding Stream for Ecological Restoration

Jared Brey

August 13, 2018 |

Next City |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

The San Francisco Bay area is home to a number of crucial wetlands and streams that are quickly being impacted by climate change. For nearly two decades, however, elementary teachers and their students have been playing a part in repairing the damage and revitalizing the areas through restoration and revegetation projects.

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How This Community Fought for $70 Million in Cleanup Funds — and Won

Johnny Magdaleno

August 13, 2018 |

Next City |

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Response Location: United States, Fresno, California

Fresno sits in right in the middle of the Central Valley of California. The region is known for its vast agriculture and farming communities, but to locals, it's also known for its horrid air quality. This is especially true in the southwest territory of Fresno, where some of the most economically disadvantaged also reside. After a series of failed attempts by local government, the community took matters into their own hands, joining forces and fighting for the right to design their own plan for better air quality.

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Welcome To The World's First Vegan Soccer Club

Jamie Millar

August 11, 2018 |

The Huffington Post |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United Kingdom, Nailsworth, England

The consumption of meat and dairy has long been deemed a leading cause of climate change, yet production continues to rise. To contribute to environmental sustainability, Dale Vince – owner of the U.K.’s Forest Green Rovers soccer team – has achieved the status of having the world's first carbon neutral team. From vegan-only menus to a solar-powered grass-cutter, the organization is bringing light to this topic in front of a new audience.

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Paradise lost? What happened to Ireland's model eco-village

Killian Fox

August 10, 2018 |

The Guardian |

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Response Location: Ireland, Cloughjordan

Admittedly by no definition perfect, members of Ireland's model eco-village have learned many lessons since the community first came into existence and are vowing to use these lessons to improve. Over the last ten years, the Cloughjordan village has built 55 houses on the settlement as well as "a working farm, an array of well-tended polytunnels and a bakery" which offers those living there food year-round.

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Lessons for Bida: Three approaches that may solve Niger state's public sanitation dilemma

Bashar Abubakar

August 07, 2018 |

Nigeria Health Watch |

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Response Location: Nigeria

In order to improve community health and maintain defenses against communicable diseases in Nigeria, thousands of sanitation workers have been recruited, trained, and deployed. Additionally, neighboring countries have increased inspections of homes, vendors, and markets as well as created communal cleaning days.

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How Anambra school children have become hygiene ambassadors

Nnenna Ibeh

August 02, 2018 |

Legit.ng |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Aguata, Anambra

Students in Nigeria's Ezinifite school are working to promote good hygiene at school and at home. The school installed flush toilets and hand-washing stations to cut down on the spread of germs. Now, students are taking their hygiene practices home.

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'Uber For Poop' Aims To Break Up Senegal's Toilet Cartel

Robert Smith

July 27, 2018 |

NPR |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

In Senegal, emptying your septic taste is expensive business; the two options, hiring someone to shovel it onto the street or paying a high price to the "cartel of 'toilet suckers,'" are not sustainable for residents or public health. To force members of the raw sewage cartel to compete with each other and lower prices, a new call center "auctions" the service by text to individual sellers instead of forcing people to contend with a banded group, and "prices for toilet suckers have come down an average of 7 percent" since the program began.

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In Palawan, reproductive health remains a top concern

Portia Ladrido

July 27, 2018 |

CNN |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Philippines

Roots of Change provides reproductive health education to young people in the Philippines. Despite resistance from the conservative government, they’re working to educate young people about sex to cur down on high maternal mortality and teen pregnancy. They train residents in rural areas, so that people outside of big cities have access to correct information about their bodies.

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