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  • Inside a Texas homeless village that inspires California replicas: Art, movies and a fishing pond

    June 28, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    Community First! Village is a 51-acre tiny home and RV village that serves as home for 350 formerly unhoused people, providing both shelter and a sense of community and connection. The Village offers a community garden, fishing pond, game room, ceramics studio and even an outdoor movie theater. Community First! Village’s success has even been inspiring California leaders to replicate the effort in areas of the state with high rates of homelessness.

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  • In Texas, a rare program offers hope for some of the most vulnerable women and babies

    June 28, 2023 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: United States, San Antonio, Texas

    Casa Mía provides housing and support services for pregnant women and new mothers struggling with addiction. The program is run out of an old house and is currently home to nine women. Staff at Casa Mía provide mental health care, recovery resources and work to destigmatize substance abuse to prevent mothers from losing their children to the foster care system.

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  • Breaking the Cycle of Maternal Mortality (Woman Die Die Mata)

    June 27, 2023 |

    Naija 102.7 FM |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Oyo State

    The state Ministry of Health in partnership with other local organizations is providing educational, medical outreach for pregnant women to discuss malaria, maternal mortality and the importance of having regular medical checkups, while providing necessary resources to increase their access to care.

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  • Portland Street Response is working — and in jeopardy

    June 27, 2023 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    Portland Street Response sends mental health staff, medics, community health workers, and peer support specialists into crisis situations with the goal of reducing intervention by police. The program has reduced calls to police for non-criminal cases by 3.5 percent and has resulted in only one arrest, compared to 371 arrests made by police for similar calls.

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  • In the land of honey and nuts: Indigenous solutions to save Brazil's Cerrado

    June 27, 2023 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Brazil, Mato Grosso

    The Resilient Cerrado Project funds Indigenous-community-led economic projects in Brazil’s Cerrado region. Projects like the Terena people’s beehive installation and beekeeper training help to protect the region’s biodiversity, cultural diversity, and improve community members’ welfare.

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  • From plastic pollution, eSwatini woman creates money and beauty

    June 27, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Swaziland, Mbabane

    Bantwana Craft is a social enterprise that collects plastic waste to be transformed into reusable items such as coin purses, backpacks, hats, and pencil cases. The business has diverted more than 10,000 kilograms of plastic waste since its founding six years ago.

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  • Here's Effort That is Helping Students of Mass Education Overcome Substance Abuse

    June 26, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    The MYENJAY Hope and Healing Foundation provides mental health awareness and sensitization efforts regarding substance use among young students. Volunteers from the program visit schools to talk to students, providing interventions and educational resources to help them understand the dangers of drug use. School officials say that since the program began talking with students, they have seen a significant increase in good behavior and a reduction in substance use.

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  • When cerebral palsy is not a death sentence

    June 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Umuahia, Abia

    The Straight Child Foundation works to increase the quality of care provided to children with cerebral palsy and their families. The Foundation has provided physiotherapy and speech therapy to about 35 children with CP and has provided 20 wheelchairs specifically designed for those with CP. The Foundation also hosts yearly camps where CP patients can connect and interact with healthcare workers and other people with CP.

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  • In South Sudan, official brutality sparks all-women business exhibition

    June 26, 2023 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: South Sudan, Juba

    A group of female entrepreneurs created a market for other enterprising women who can’t afford to pay standard shop and licensing fees to access a safe place to sell their wares. The group connects women to train them in entrepreneurship, provide networking opportunities and inform people about the market and upcoming events via social media to drive more customers to the marketplace.

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  • How FFF's intervention is changing the narrative for children with spina bifida

    June 26, 2023 |

    BONews |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos

    The “Saving Lives! Improving Futures” project by the Festus Fajemilo Foundation works to help children with spina bifida who face incontinence issues reduce feelings of social isolation, preserve renal function, increase student retention and improve their overall quality of life. Since the project launched in 2017, it has benefited more than 150 people.

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