Sentences with phrase «people in rural communities in»

«People in rural communities in Upstate NY, access to banking services is very important and I want to make sure that that's not minimized either,» he said.

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Many people living in rural, low - income communities, or on tribal lands have no access to care at all.

I can remember standing in front of my church (about 60 people at the time) back in 2009 and boldly declaring that God was going to use our church to reach thousands of people for his kingdom in rural communities through a multi-site strategy.

Mattholie says we need to begin by considering our communities and their needs, and then formulate churches around this: «Very often in the rural context people begin with a church and ask: «How might we attract people to what we're already doing?»

I live in a small rural community and within a 10 mile radius, I could name you at least four preachers who have either molested children, having perfected affairs, stripping and robbing God's people of money and running around on their wives.

Hence the destruction of rural communities does not count against the gain in per capita income achieved by reducing the number of persons living on the land while producing the same quantity of agricultural products.

With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.

An enormous 70 percent of the world's poorest people — those scraping by on less than $ 1.25 a day — live in rural areas.1 These communities depend on the earth in a more direct way than many of us will ever understand.

However, Valley Wide Cooperative's store in the rural community of 700 people has proven to be successful since it opened last year.

I'm tired of people thinking Kansas City is a rural, podunk little cowtown, when in fact it's an urban metropolis of over 2 million people with thriving communities of vegetarians, vegans, raw foodists, and locavores.

But while the challenges posed to rural communities in Honduras are great, so are the opportunities: in the last decade, the government has begun handing over land rights to some local and indigenous people, providing an excellent basis for efforts to create sustainable forest economies.

While I won't be around to make this happen on the internet community, I'll be sure to make some sort of donation to my close - knit rural community where a lot of people are in need of assistance.

People in rural locations volunteered more for organisations working with the elderly, health and safety, the environment, animals, local community work, hobbies and recreation.

«His special concern for rural communities, his work on Indian Point and on economic justice, qualify him to be an outstanding peoples lawyer in every sense of the word.»

BASC has warned that these policies will result in significant damage to conservation and the economy, damage people's livelihoods and threaten the viability of some rural communities.

Chad Eldred, the navigator director of the Southern Tier Independence Center, also says often in more rural communities, it is a greater challenge to get uninsured people signed up because of a lack of Internet or transportation.

Secondly it must help us campaign for a fundamental change in attitude to make it socially unacceptable to object to rural development that allows local people to live and work in the communities they grow up in.

BASC chief - executive Richard Ali said: «It's a worthwhile initiative which will see the rural community in the UK offering practical help to people in dire need.

From Liz's link to the NYT: [Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries, a Brooklyn Democrat, who sponsored the legislation in the Assembly, said, «The practice of inmate - based gerrymandering fundamentally undermines the principal of one person, one vote, by reallocating political power to a handful of upstate, rural communities.»]

The minister told health workers in the region that the government is aware of the numerous challenges facing them in their quest to provide healthcare for the people, especially the vulnerable in the rural communities.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Women, the unemployed, older people and those living in rural communities are more resistant to change, according to the authors.

«The motive is to help the indigent people in the rural communities and the poor who can not afford to seek medical attention,» he said.

«People in rural areas are often good at taking the initiative to help their communities and businesses, but do not always get the support they need from public bodies,» the report said.

Report reaching DAILY POST says Boko Haram insurgents have killed three people and set fire to scores of homes in a raid targeting vulnerable rural communities...

Dr Isamotu emphasised that the programme will be used to mobilise communities against preventable diseases as health workers will now be compelled to visit more remote villages to reach out to the health needs of the people particularly in the rural areas.

Describing the attack as one too many, the President promised that everything would be done to provide security for the people in the rural communities.

What is more worrying is that government is engaging in this environmentally unfriendly action at a time Ghana's development partners and the international community are sympathizing with the Ghanaian people on the increasing impacts of climate change on livelihoods and supporting the country with huge resources to implement a number of climate adaptation projects to help the people especially rural communities to improve livelihoods under severe climate change impacts through effective adaptation interventions.

That would be bad for people in Richmond Park, and it would be disastrous for people in Wales, whether in towns and cities, or in small rural communities.

This small measure actually has been proven to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy by up to 30 percent; it makes a big difference people with jobs, school, or who live in a rural community far from a pharmacy.

Majee, along with Urmeka Jefferson, assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, partnered with a county health agency serving a rural community with a population of 21,500 people; a high percentage of the communities» jobs were low - paying manufacturing jobs, and the population possessed poor education.

Many people in rural African communities still believe that disability is caused by supernatural forces, curses and as «punishment» for wrongdoings — according to University of East Anglia research.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Community based tourism refers to situations in which local people — usually those that are poor or economically marginalized in very rural parts of the world — open up their homes and communities to visitors seeking sustainably achieved cultural, educational or recreational travel experiences.

After selling his home and packing all his belongings in storage, he traveled to the small rural community of Barre, Mass., about 100 kilometers west of Boston, where every year people congregate for a three - month - long «meditation marathon.»

«I have seen, when I was in the hospital, so many people who come from rural communities that have [chronic obstructive pulmonary disease],» Castanza explained.

Persisting high insulin sensitivity among middle - aged and older individuals in non-westernized traditional populations at a time when they still maintained their ancestral lifestyle, such as the African pygmies, the Ainu people of Japan, rural communities in Papua New Guinea, and traditional Pacific Islanders.

Those people who live the longest and experience the lowest rates of disease live in rural, tight knit communities.

Two often - cited examples of zinc deficiency are among people living in small communities in rural Iran and Australia (Aborigines).10 - 11 Multiple nutritional factors, not just phytic acid, were involved in both examples.

In my small town / rural farming community when Im out and about (mail, walking dogs) I dress what people would see as «normal».

A portion of the proceeds of each Wayuu Made purchase will go directly to Aguayuda, a non-profit organization in Colombia, whose mission is to improve life and health in poor rural communities through clean water, sanitation and education, of which include the Wayuu people.

Think about communities in the Midwest, in places such as rural Wisconsin and Montana, if you're white and even if you're open to interracial dating, there are not that many people of color around.

There are also people living in rural areas that doing have access to a kink community.

By the same token, substantially more urbanites who are looking for dates (58 %) find it easy to meet people in their communities than do suburbanites and rural residents.

Countryside lovers from rural areas and animal lovers are more than welcome to join the community, such as farmers, veterinaries in order to share their experiences and aspirations of people who have the same interest and hobbies.

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Established in 1929, RCCE helps rural communities achieve a thriving and sustainable future by addressing issues, such as social isolation, poor access to services and a shortage of affordable housing, that are crucial to people living and working in rural Essex today.

Although there are people visiting and writing literature about rural communities in America, many of its residents — especially students — voices are not heard nationally.

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