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A Perfect Storm: How the deadly 2022 Durban floods hold crucial lessons for the future of the city and others like it

Leonie Joubert

May 10, 2023 |

Daily Maverick |

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Over 3000 Words

Response Location: South Africa, Durb

A community-based, early-warning system for flooding in Durban, South Africa, gave community members an early enough evacuation order so that no lives were lost. The system uses information from Weather Service reports to know when and where to monitor real-time local conditions. When a community member or member of the disaster management unit sees the conditions are becoming dangerous, they use messaging apps to warn the community.

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Honey production sweetens snow leopard conservation in Kyrgyzstan

Monica Pelliccia

May 10, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kyrgyzstan, Shamshy

Two conservation organizations are helping communities in Kyrgyzstan diversify their sources of income from livestock to include beekeeping, agroecology, ecotourism, and crafts. These efforts are preventing conflicts with snow leopards to conserve the local population. And some of the money made from the program goes towards funding environmental projects chosen by the community.

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Virginia students learning strategies to avoid bad behavior, more suspensions

Jenna Zibton

May 10, 2023 |

WSLS-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Lynchburg, Virginia

The Restorative Suspension Center provides a space for students facing suspension to work with staff to change their behavior. The Center provides mentoring and group sessions with their peers and also teaches coping skills to prevent those bad behaviors. Since starting the program, the Lynchburg City School District has seen an 86% decrease in discipline referrals.

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Latino advisory group works to bring more Spanish-speaking audiences to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center

Aina de Lapparent Alvarez

May 10, 2023 |

The Berkshire Eagle |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

The Spanish-Language Community Advisory Network works with a performing arts center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to bring in Latino audiences by showing culturally-relevant films, reducing language barriers, and even inviting the films’ cast and crew to the screenings.

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Fairfield City Schools focusing on students' mental health

Sarah Verser

May 09, 2023 |

WBRC-TV |

Broadcast TV News |

Under 3 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Fairfield, Alabama

InFocus provides high school students with a safe space to discuss mental health and the stigma and challenges that come along with it. The group, led by a mental health coordinator, also teaches students different ways they can improve their mental health.

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The Mexican family who gave up fishing to monitor and rescue sea turtles

Astrid Arellano

May 09, 2023 |

Mongabay |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Mexico, Kino Bay, Sonora

A family of former fishers created the Kino Bay Turtle Group to monitor sea turtles in Mexico’s La Cruz Lagoon. The conservationists work to rescue and tag turtles entangled in fishing gear, track the population, and educate the public about their importance.

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With 1.6M followers, TikTok influencer Miriam Ezagui teaches the masses about her Orthodox lifestyle

Elizabeth Karpen

May 09, 2023 |

Jewish Telegraphic Agency |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Miriam Ezaugi is a Brooklyn-based labor and delivery nurse who shares videos about her life as an Orthodox Jew with her 1.6 million TikTok followers. Her content varies from sharing her day-to-day life to explainers on Orthodox customs. All with the goal of educating more people with information directly from a Jewish person.

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Indigenous-led farm, Tea Creek, leads the way in food sovereignty

Kim Kimberlin

May 09, 2023 |

Keremeos Review |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Tsimshian Nation, Canada

Tea Creek is a holistic approach to food sovereignty and economic development that provides community, trades training and land preservation, with an emphasis on reaching indigenous people. Tea Creek also provides a Food Sovereignty Training Program that includes courses in horticulture, carpentry, first aid, and more that graduated 108 people in 2021.

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One Man's Trash: Athens Junk Removal Service Gives Back to Community

Ireland Hayes

May 08, 2023 |

Grady Newsource |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

A junk removal service in Athens, Georgia, is slowing the growth of the local landfill by recycling, donating, and giving away the items it can before taking the rest to the landfill.

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Colombia's Women-Led Electric Bus Fleet Is Reshaping Bogotá's Public Transit

Jose Orozco

May 08, 2023 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

La Rolita is a public transit service in Bogotá, Colombia that prioritizes hiring women drivers and runs completely on electric buses. Women make up nearly half of the fleet's drivers, and the system now includes 11 routes covering roughly 210 miles in the city.

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