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  • 'A Facebook page solved the riddle of my missing child'

    Dina Aboughazala

    August 16, 2020 |

    BBC |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Egypt

    More than 2,500 missing people have been found in Egypt because of work by the Facebook page Missing Children, which compiled a vast trove of photos and uses facial-recognition software to match faces to cases. The page collected the photo library with a campaign asking the public to photograph children begging on the streets. Using a Facebook grant, the page has expanded to a website with face-recognition tools and expanded to Romania, the first step of what it hopes is establishing a global reach.

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  • Ramsey Walk tackles fly-tipping with guerrilla gardening

    Dina Aboughazala

    November 08, 2018 |

    Islington Now |

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    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, Islington

    In a neighborhood in the United Kingdom called Ramsey Walk, one resident was tired of illegal dumping, also called fly-tipping, in her community. On a hunch, she formed a guerilla gardening group to plant flowers where the dumping was occurring to deter would-be fly-tippers. Their success rate has been 100 percent, and their new motto is "from fly-tipping to floewr picking."

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