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Society GermanyRefugees Help Refugees Live Better – Using Financial Technology
Getting residency permits and bank accounts have long been a struggle for refugees. But fellow refugees, who have undergone such struggles themselves, are using financial technology (fintech) to offer easier ways to tackle these hurdles.
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Society USASmall Town Makes Own Money to Overcome the Crisis – Out of Wood
A small town in Washington, USA is printing its own currency in response to the recession caused by the coronavirus outbreak – using the same old wooden printing press that helped boost the town’s economy during the Great Depression in 1931!
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Society FinlandKids Learn How to Spot Fake News – in Primary School!
Countries around the world are facing an inevitable spread of false information. But Finland, Europe’s most resistant nation to fake news, is tackling this issue by ensuring even primary school kids learn to recognize signs of misinformation.
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Society AfghanistanAncient Craft of Making Silk Gives Women New Jobs
The ancient traditional craft of cultivating silk is making a comeback in Afghanistan, creating work in the outskirts of the ancient city of Herat for around 4,000 women, who manually spin yarn after raising silkworms and harvesting their cocoons.
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Society India300,000 Migrant Workers May Soon Rent Affordable Homes Next to Their Jobs
The coronavirus lockdowns left many of India’s migrant workers jobless and stranded. In hopes to improve the situation, the nation is now planning to develop affordable rental housing in the cities where the laborers work.
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Environment NorwaySave the Seeds: 60,000 Emergency Crops Added to Arctic Vault
A “doomsday” vault in the Arctic preserving plants that could feed a growing population threatened by climate impacts has received 60,000 new seed samples from international donors – including Britain’s Prince Charles and a Native American group.
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Society AfghanistanBreaking Social Norms: Afghanistan Now Has Its First Modeling Agency
In Afghanistan, modeling can be a potentially life-threatening career to pursue, especially for women. But the nation’s very first fashion school is working hard to change the conservative mindset of what it is to be a model.
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