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  • How is Armenia Healing its New Generation of Men after Nagorno-Karabakh War?

    The Zinvori Tun or “Soldier’s home” is a rehabilitation center that treats veterans with injuries or disabilities as a result of fighting in the war. About 300 veterans from the 2020 Nagorno Karabakh War are currently receiving treatment at the center. There are also various treatment centers that have been established to treat mental wounds, like trauma and grief.

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  • Inside Elephant Territory

    New tactics are being implemented to prevent elephants from approaching farmland in Sri Lanka. Clashes between people and elephants have increased with the expansion of small farms encroaching into elephant habitats. One solution to prevent damage to crops and to protect people has been electric fences. The fences deliver a small shock - enough to deter the elephant without harming it.

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  • Testris - The positive rate game: Daejon

    During the Covid-19 pandemic in South Korea, officials implemented comprehensive contact tracing strategies and mandatory hospital quarantine for those who tested positive for the virus. All services associated with containing the virus were free of charge to residents, including testing that had to be conducted due to contact tracing efforts. Even during periods when the positive rate for the virus increased, it consistently remained below five percent – indicating that the pandemic was under control.

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  • Testris - The positive rate game: Rwanda

    Before the first case of Covid-19 was reported within country borders, Rwanda had already started preparations – including a testing strategy and contact tracing – to prevent the spread of the virus. Although resources were limited, they were able to use a pool testing strategy instead of individual testing, which allowed them to save both time and resources.

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  • Music Against Covid-19 in Brasilândia

    Once regarded as the region in Sao Paulo with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths, Brasilandia residents mobilized their community to create a volunteer solidarity network that encouraged people to stay at home. The effort started with just a handful of participants but grew to over 200 volunteers with each new addition joining an action plan team that utilized a different form of campaigning, such as music or art. Since the implementation of the network Brasilandia "went from 1st to 2nd highest number of COVID-19 related deaths in the city."

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  • Paraisópolis and Its “Street presidents”

    Lacking assistance from the government during the coronavirus pandemic, residents in one of the largest favelas in Sao Paulo, Brazil organized to raise funds and launch a series of initiatives to protect their community. Although not all were supportive of the efforts – which included residents acting as neighborhood monitors and using two schools as quarantine shelters – the community has been able to reduce transmission and keep the case count manageable.

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  • How the Amazon region, hardest-hit by coronavirus, resumed lessons with classrooms closed

    Aula em Casa, which translates to School at Home, is a television program that features class material for students living in remote parts of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, who likely have televisions, but not access to the internet or a computer. The program, which reaches 450,000 students in Amazonas, features elementary and secondary school lessons transmitted over major TV channels, and is supplemented by teachers through the use of popular messaging app WhatsApp, Google Classroom, and is now being used by at least three other states in Brazil because of the pandemic.

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