Community
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Society
Society ZimbabweYou Can Stay in School and Learn, Zimbabwe Tells Pregnant Girls (Before They Were Expelled!)
In Zimbabwe, it is now illegal to expel pupils for being pregnant. By making the previous guidelines into a law, the government helps tackle gender inequalities and prevent girls from dropping out of school.
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Society
Society United Kingdom124 Less Homeless People on the Streets of Oxford
Oxford City Council has secured 124 rooms of interim housing for the next year, meaning that homeless people won’t have to return to the street. The COVID-19 rough sleeping taskforce had provided accommodation in the wake of the pandemic.
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Environment
Environment USAFruit Picking Volunteers Rescue Community Farm from Corona-Crash
The corona pandemic almost bankrupted "Quail Hill Farm", a community-supported farm on Long Island in the state of New York (USA): Revenues dropped, workers had to be let go. But hundreds of volunteers saved the oldest community farm in New York.
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Heroes
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Society
Society USAMany Americans Ask for More Say in Where the Public Money Goes (Less to the Police, for Example)
Amid the nationwide protests over George Floyd’s death all over the United States, activists are now pushing for “participatory budgeting” and redirecting policing budgets towards school, mental health services, job creation, or public housing.
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Society
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Technology
Technology IndiaPower from the Sun Brings Water to Poor Farmers
As part of a project by the Transform Rural India Foundation, a non-profit based in New Delhi, India, about 30 farmers installed a new solar-powered irrigation system to help diversify their crops in an eco-friendly way - and prevent work migration at the same time.
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Society
Society Burkina FasoThanks to This Charity, Prisoners Spend Their Jail Time Writing Plays and Making Music
A charity in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is helping prisoners find revitalization through art – teaching them to sing, dance or write plays, while also organizing music competitions and theatrical performances they can partake in.
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Society
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
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!