Ireland Donates $16 Million To Brazil’s Amazon Fund
by Reuters
Ireland announced on Wednesday a donation of 15 million euros ($16.3 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, the Brazilian government said. The donation to the fund, which aims to stop deforestation and preserve the world’s largest tropical rainforest, will be made over the next three years, Brazil’s Environment Ministry said in a statement. The Amazon fund, which is managed by Brazil’s development bank, supports the prevention, monitoring and combat of Amazon deforestation and fosters sustainable development. It has funded 123 projects with a total investment of 3.1 billion reais ($534.6 million), the ministry said.
UNICEF-led Volunteer Effort Has Prevented Afghanistan’s Health System from Collapsing, Ensuring Care for Millions
by Andy Corbley, Good News Network
After a few years of Herculean efforts, UNICEF has reached a point where it has prevented two-thirds of Afghanistan’s healthcare sector from collapsing. Working mostly in rural areas, the operation has been vast, employing 28,000 full-time carers and physicians and 32,000 volunteers staffing 96 fully-equipped hospitals and 2,400 rural healthcare centers, sometimes as small as a single room. But for vaccination, childbirth, and routine checkups, even a small room can make a huge difference, and the work that UNICEF and partners have been doing is also helping to build better medical habits among rural populations inured to outside influence and change.
Mississippi’s Education Miracle: A Model For Global Literacy Reform
by , The Conversation
In a surprising turnaround, Mississippi, once ranked near the bottom of U.S. education standings, has dramatically improved its student literacy rates. As of 2023, the state ranks among the top 20 for fourth grade reading, a significant leap from its 49th-place ranking in 2013. This transformation was driven by evidence-based policy reforms focused on early literacy and teacher development. The rest of the country might want to take note. That’s because Mississippi’s success offers a proven solution to the reading literacy crisis facing many states – a clear road map for closing early literacy gaps and improving reading outcomes nationwide.
England’s River Ouse Makes History As First To Gain Legal Rights
by Rob Hutchins, Oceanographic
Running 35 miles through both West and East Sussex to the historic town of Newhaven on the South East coast of England, the River Ouse may be one of four British rivers to share the same name, but it is its only one – thanks to a groundbreaking new development – to be granted its own legal rights. In what has been billed a ‘major step forward in the UK’s environmental movement’, the River Ouse – the spine of an extensive network of smaller streams that fan across the Sussex county – joins a small but powerful international collection of rivers now recognised as “living entities” with “intrinsic rights to exist.”
One-Armed Player Has Made History In Women’s College Basketball – And She’s Become A Role Model For Others
by Nathan Frederick, Good News Network
With so many great plays in March Madness this week, check out the shot that carried multiple meanings as it sailed into the air, and into the history books this season. It required persistence, resilience, and faith. Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel, who was born with a right arm too small to adequately use, let her left-handed shot fly from around the three-point line—right into the basket. The Lesley University junior guard, who has an obvious disadvantage compared with her opponents, was cut from her high school team. Yet, there she was, playing guard for the Cambridge, Massachusetts college team against Fitchburg State this season when she rose up and took aim at history.
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