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‘Help given by neighbours’ (opens the original)
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On the early American frontier, many women sewed quilt squares during the winter. In spring, they joined neighbours in quilting bees to join the squares together while sharing news, recipes and life-saving information.The quilting frames thus served as peer-to-peer support networks among neighbours who had been cooped up in isolated huts all winter. The word “bee” stemmed from the dialectal word been or bean, meaning “help given by neighbors.”<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="ht
Sticking to pavement and avoiding shortcuts (opens the original)
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Since listening to a fascinating interview on The Current about the 10 stories we find ourselves telling often, I have been wondering what my 10 might be.And I realized that one of them is about land mines.Thanks for reading Seeing like a local....! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="
I brought a plant to a woman after surgery…. (opens the original)
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When I worked on community mobilization in a USAID-funded project in western Serbia two decades ago, developing ‘community social service projects’ was a challenge because of the perceptual divide between villagers and the experts in social services, education and health care. <sour
Nonna empowerment (opens the original)
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Grandmothers (and the occasional grandfather) are breaking the mould of retirement.On either side of the Atlantic - in New York and in Vienna - they are cooking up storms and sharing their culinary and baking skills with others. But they are doing more than that - they are reconnecting generations, restoring older people to public visibility, and introducing regional foods and dishes that are new to many people, even in a multicultural society.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="h
‘The antithesis of a hospital ward’ (opens the original)
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Critical care patients enjoy sunshine, fresh air and scented flowers on the top of King’s College Hospital in London, thanks to the first outdoor Critical Care garden created in one of the UK’s largest hospitals.The garden, with beds of scented flowers such as honeysuckle, jasmine and lavender, and textured foliage and grasses that patients can touch and smell from their beds, is located on top of the hospital’s 60-bed critical care unit.<div class="su
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