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About 6% of American adults have a serious mental health condition. Dmitrii Marchenko/Moment Collection via Getty Images

Philadelphians with mental illness want to work, pray, date and socialize just like everyone else – here’s how creating more inclusive communities is good for public health

Creating inclusive communities means not just offering services to people with serious mental illness, but changing negative beliefs and behaviors toward them.
Researcher Hillary Chanda discusses solar power with residents of Chongwe district, rural Zambia. Courtesy Edwin Kasanda

Solar power in Zambia: ‘If it works for my neighbour, I’ll try it too’

New research has found that rural Zambians are much more likely to adopt solar power if they see it working for their neighbours.
Pupils from Kibera, one of the largest slums in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Reuters/Noor Khamis

How partnerships enriched the learning for Nairobi slum children

Education outcomes of young people can be improved with targeted interventions. At the centre lies the participation of partners – community, family and schools.

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