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  • Seeds of hope: the charity helping to replant Peru's rainforest

    Laura Joffre

    July 04, 2023 |

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    Plant Your Future is working with Peruvian farmers to reforest the Amazon rainforest by helping them earn an income while growing trees instead of doing so by cutting trees down. The charity does outreach, teaches farmers about agroforestry, intercropping, and the carbon market, and then supports them throughout the transition to those practices.

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  • Farming with a future: how social enterprise Nuup helps Mexico's smallholders to thrive

    Laura Joffre

    January 18, 2023 |

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    Response Location: Mexico

    Nuup helps smallholder farmers in Mexico succeed through all steps of the value chain by helping them access funding, connecting them to agricultural markets, and optimizing their performance with technology and education.

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  • Blue forests are under threat. A quiet revolution could save them

    Laura Joffre

    October 22, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Madagascar

    Mangroves can store up six times more carbon than an area equal to the Amazon rainforest. However, they are rapidly declining, over the past century their population has been reduced by 30 to 50 percent. One nonprofit, Blue Ventures, is working with local communities to regenerate fisheries, which helps the mangroves. They're also helping local communities to manage their mangroves.

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  • The social enterprise that takes on ‘Big Air' with data

    Laura Joffre

    August 05, 2021 |

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    Response Location: China, Beijing

    Smart Air is a social enterprise in Beijing that educates people about clean air and debunks myths about expensive air purifiers marketed by large corporations. Smart Air instead offers effective products at a more affordable price, making clean air more accessible.

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  • Listen to me: pioneering hearing care in Chad

    Laura Joffre

    July 27, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Chad

    Funded by the Hear the World Foundation, Écoute-moi! provides audiological care in Chad. Working closely with children at a school for hearing loss, the group conducts audiograms to assess hearing loss levels, fits the children with hearing aids, and supports them afterwards with things like speech therapy. In order to create a sustainable model of care, the nonprofit has also trained four local audiological care technicians, the first in the country to provide services. Speech therapy is an important part of the follow-up support to help children speak after not hearing for years.

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  • The people racing to replant Africa

    Laura Joffre

    July 02, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Senegal

    The Gambia river which rests in Sahel, the region between the Sahara desert and the African rainforest, used to be extremely fertile, farmers could live of the land. Yet, climate change and years of deforestation have made the land uncultivable. One NGO, with help from other organizations and international funders, is trying to rebuild the land by creating, "The Great Green Wall,” an effort to build an 8,000-km mural of plants and trees along the southern border of the Sahara desert. So far, 18 million hectares of land have been restored.

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  • 'The largest classroom in Africa': How text messages mean millions of children can stay connected to education during Covid-19 school closures

    Laura Joffre

    January 04, 2021 |

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    Response Location: Kenya

    In Sub-Saharan Africa, “almost half of schoolchildren, or a total of 121 million pupils, are unable to access remote learning,” according to a 2020 UNICEF report, an even bigger problem during a pandemic when students can’t access virtual classes. Eneza Education is using texts messages to deliver classes. Their bite-size lessons delivered via text and “Ask a Teacher” feature are providing education to millions of subscribers.

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