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Online Platform for Charitable Causes, “Fixing Rooms” Save Lives, First Solid-State Aircraft

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23.11.2018
by Roxana Adam
#Charity, #Drug Safety, #Fixing Rooms, #Harm Reduction, #South Africa, #UK
Photo: yeowatzup / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

South African platform ForGood works like an online dating platform, but matches skills and services for the NGO sector; medical supervision in so-called ‘fixing rooms’ is saving lives by ensuring that addicts get the help and medical care they need; and the first-ever solid-state aircraft uses no moving parts, pointing to a carbon-neutral future.

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Good News
23.11.2018
by Roxana Adam
#Charity, #Drug Safety, #Fixing Rooms, #Harm Reduction, #South Africa, #UK
Photo: yeowatzup / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)
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