In today’s edition of Squirrel News, New Mexico establishes permanent funding for child care, a Nigerian nonprofit uses recycling to boost education, and a company raises chickens on surplus supermarket food.
In New Mexico, the state’s budget priorities have shifted to include aid for parents with young children. To its credit, the state was the first in the US to establish a permanent child care fund.
Nonprofit swaps plastics for learning resources to improve education
Nigerian nonprofit Recyclearn Initiative engages students to collect plastic for recycling firms. For underprivileged students, the earnings mean new textbooks and other learning resources.
Welcome to Baltimore, a city that has adopted a policy requiring government personnel from cops to librarians to complete training to assist citizens in coping with trauma.
France has banned short-haul flights where decent train service is available in an effort to cut down on carbon emissions. The move will initially affect three routes.
Zimbabwe refugee camp uses hydroponics, solar energy to grow crops
Hydroponic farming is a viable alternative for places where water and good soil are hard to come by. Farmers at the hydroponics station in the Tongogara Refugee Camp use a space the size of a football field to cultivate fruits and vegetables.
The theatre companies exploding myths about disability
Not Your Circus Dog’s new show is a riotous upending of audiences’ preconceptions of disability and neurodivergence. It joins a swelling movement of similar collectives rewriting the stage rulebook.
Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park empowers people, restores the wild
To begin conservation efforts in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, remnants of a decades-long war had to be cleared. 14 years later, both the wild and the populace are reaping the benefits of the initiative.
