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Restoring Hope For The Displaced Girl In Nigeria's Borno State

Aisha Tijjani Jidda

April 16, 2023 |

HumAngle |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

After a local school was destroyed during conflict with Boko Haram, Mallam Thabit began offering night classes for girls who were left without access to education. Thabit advocated for the school to be rebuilt and helped establish a new education program.

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With a support fund, CATAI is addressing the barriers to girl child education in Adamawa

Yahuza Abdulkadir

March 23, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Adamawa

The Centre for Advocacy, Transparency, and Accountability Initiative oversees the Educate A Girl project, which advocates for increased funding for public schooling and distributes radio dramas that discuss gender barriers to education for girls.

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Women of Winter inspires the downhill rush that uplifts – and diversifies

Jodi Hausen

March 22, 2023 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: United States, Big Sky, Montana

Women of Winter helps train women of color to become professional ski instructors and make the sport more accessible and diversified. Women from across the country come to join the program, receiving a sense of community and access to scholarships to attend events to further their education and experience.

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Rekindling Hope: An NGO Builds Safe Space for Displaced GBV Survivors in Borno

Rukaiyatu Idris

March 20, 2023 |

BONews |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Borno State

At various camps for internally displaced persons, the Gender Equality Peace and Development Center built three permanent safe spaces for women and girls that have experienced gender-based violence. The Center is not only a safe space for these people to go but also empowers them by teaching them new skills, providing access to health care and a sense of community.

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How an all-women news outlet is changing Somalia's media landscape

Scott Peterson

January 17, 2023 |

The Christian Science Monitor |

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Response Location: Somalia

Somalia's first all-women news outlet, Bilan, provides opportunities for women in the journalism industry and publishes coverage of issues often ignored by male-dominated outlets. The organization's work has led to the creation of a new medical facility in an area that previously lacked access and has inspired more women and girls to pursue journalism.

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111 Trees Per Daughter Changed This Village's Future

Geetanjali Krishna

January 06, 2023 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: India, Piplantri, Rajasthan

A village in India plants and maintains 111 trees to honor every newborn girl. The process has improved the local environment and air quality, thus improving the status of girls and women in the community.

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La Lucha Sigue: Lessons From Latin America's Abortion Victories

Tina Vasquez

November 21, 2022 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Response Location: Mexico

Attorneys and activists in Colombia, Mexico, and Argentina used a multipronged approach to legalize abortion that included grassroots organizing, strategically initiating lawsuits, and changing cultural narratives. The last part was key to the movements’ successes because changing the laws without changing the cultural understanding of abortion as a normal part of healthcare can lead to laws not being implemented or being overturned, like what happened in the United States in 2022.

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US midterm elections: Why Bolivia's lawmakers are 50% women

Thomas Graham Kayla Epstein

October 19, 2022 |

BBC |

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Response Location: Bolivia

As the result of an electoral law introduced in the late '90s and later added to the country's constitution, roughly half of Bolivian lawmakers at every level of government are women. Though the country outperforms many others, including the United States, on gender parity in the legislature, women are still underrepresented in executive positions.

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These women are defying tradition—by flying

Jordan Salama

October 14, 2022 |

National Geographic |

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Response Location: Mexico, Cuetzalán

Women in Cuetzalan, Mexico, taking part in the danza de los voladores, an Indigenous ritual performed to ask for good harvests and rain, are called voladoras. By partaking in a tradition initially performed by only men, they are laying a path for other women to follow and showing it is unnecessary to exclude them.

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How Angwan Gwuragwu, FCT women are earning while keeping community

Emiene Erameh

October 13, 2022 |

NewsWire NGR |

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Response Location: Nigeria, Angwan Gwuragwu, Abuja

In an effort to address issues of waste disposal, the Women Recyclers Empowerment Initiative empowers women in local communities by paying them to recycle plastics. Not only does the initiative address waste issues, but it also allows women to become financially independent. So far, 40 women have participated in the initiative.

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