Sentences with phrase «aid communities in»

That's why it's good to see projects that are looking beyond mitigation — taking bold and ambitious steps now to aid communities in adapting to our changing climate.

In California, grants worth millions of dollars aid communities in their efforts to improve attendance and reduce truancy.

CDCs are nonprofit corporations established to aid communities in their economic development efforts.

Rather, hymnody is art for the church, art that aids the community in expressing its faith.

IRIN: No one working in the aid community in recent years could have avoided the buzzword «resilience» — but what does the term mean practically, and how has it helped shape action on the ground?

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I also believe there's going to be a lot of aid that comes in from the federal level, philanthropic level, and even the business community.

This concerns local police who say they need the cooperation of all people in the community, including lawful and undocumented immigrants, in reporting crime and aiding criminal prosecutions.

The state and federal governments will provide an additional $ 21.6 million in home and community care funding to Western Australia this year to aid older people and those with disabilities.

While half the population requires food aid to survive you can see multi million dollar (U.S.) homes going up around Harare in gated communities with expensive shopping centers peddling fine imported foods and goods.

«There are many programs that work to ensure, especially in communities that are heavily affected by gun violence, -LSB-...] that students are able to respond and administer whatever first aid they can, assuming the person is still alive,» Hogg said on Sunday.

The university's contributions go well beyond funding, as evidenced by the affordable housing it provides for community residents; the program it sponsors to allow university staff to serve as volunteer firefighters in Princeton; the students who help staff the first aid and rescue squad; the auditing program it offers to community residents; the intellectual, cultural and athletic events it makes available to community residents; and it supports entities like McCarter Theatre and Garden Theatre.

Virgin Unite, our non-profit foundation, has partnered with the international development charity Christian Aid since 2009 to bring health care to remote rural communities in Kenya.

There is no official support for children who lose their parents in the air strikes and it is a struggle for aid workers to access them, so many rely on members of the community to take them in.

It sends teams of volunteer health professionals to carry out disaster relief, long - term development and community health programs with local partners, ships millions in humanitarian aid to countries around the world, and provides mobile dental care to those in need in the US.

5) United Way of Puerto Rico Pictures from our past work and distribution trips includes: All donations to this fund will exclusively support the victims of the catastrophic Hurricane María and Irma in Puerto Rico and provide relief and aid the communities affected by this disaster.

RBC is pleased to announce a gift of $ 500,000 from the RBC Foundation, to the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, to aid in launching the Canada: Day 1 Travelling Exhibition and Community Outreach Program.

We will be gearing up in the next few weeks to undertake additional grant work in both Puerto Rico and Mexico, where our partners have expressed a strong need for further aid to recovering communities.

More than just a workspace, CSI is a community hub offering consulting services and speaking engagements to aid in the creation of innovation and change.

In a region known for its predisposition to philanthropy at an individual, corporate and government level, its not hard to find numerous examples of community support through financial aid.

Tom DiFilipo, president and CEO of the Joint Council on International Children's Services, said UNICEF and other institutions in the international aid community have a definite «bias» against international adoptions.

Given this circumstance, the Mexican government will channel all logistical support available to care for the families and communities affected in the national territory, so it has been reported to the government of Texas and the federal government of the United States that unfortunately in this it will not be possible to provide aid originally offered to Texas in the wake of Hurricane Harvey in late August.

This is not a bad thing in some respects — rich communities have legitimate need for attention from the state, too — but the aid we can get this way is out of proportion to the needs.

In an hour - long, understated speech, punctuated by humor, Clinton called on aid groups to continue their efforts to champion diversity and the positive forces of interdependence while seeking the most effective ways to assist communities in the world's poorest placeIn an hour - long, understated speech, punctuated by humor, Clinton called on aid groups to continue their efforts to champion diversity and the positive forces of interdependence while seeking the most effective ways to assist communities in the world's poorest placein the world's poorest places.

It is not so much important that we belittle or deny the fact that AIDS has spread dramatically in the homosexual community.

In fact, on a worldwide basis, AIDS is present more in the heterosexual community than it is in the gay communitIn fact, on a worldwide basis, AIDS is present more in the heterosexual community than it is in the gay communitin the heterosexual community than it is in the gay communitin the gay community.

Within the vastly varied religious communities that are in some fashion engaged by the HIV / AIDS issues, there is a plethora of reactions.

Stigma against people with HIV / AIDS is pretty widespread» even children suffer it in schools across many countries» and faith communities are by no means alone in stigmatizing people.

They were even ready to permit Bible translation in order to gain the linguistic and community development aid promised by this intrepid American.

This solidarity is underscored also in other communities of memory and mutual aid, and most particularly in the family.

As a member of the community it is the divine duty of man to contribute to the general good, to guide and aid his fellow men, to do his full share in furthering the social amenities of the community, and to take part in fighting the common enemy.

«What is important is to show is how engaged we are in communities, especially in areas like humanitarian aid,» he said.

Imagine a community where AIDS is taken care of in our lifetime.

It is rare that an essay aids one in understanding the landscape of one's own faith community and tradition, but Russell Hittinger's article did just that for me.

In the face of defeat one can attempt to build and maintain some kind of community that will not only aid in physical survival but be a model of human values in stark contrast to the oppressing societIn the face of defeat one can attempt to build and maintain some kind of community that will not only aid in physical survival but be a model of human values in stark contrast to the oppressing societin physical survival but be a model of human values in stark contrast to the oppressing societin stark contrast to the oppressing society.

«The sects divide the community,» said Guatemala City's Archbishop Próspero Penados, who argued that their growth has aided the Reagan administration in dominating the region partly by weakening Catholic unity.

equally important is the fact that in addition to family physicians, the clergymen of the community,... and the other guardians of mental health can consult with the center's professional staff to aid in serving individual patients about whom they share concern, as well as to add to their own knowledge of mental health and mental illness through formal and informal classes and meetings presented by the center's staff.

Why don't these ministers deal with gun violence, drugs, HIV / AIDS, and runaway father in the black community first?

For years there was a stigma in the church surrounding AIDS, but that has largely faded in the faith community, Phillips said.

Finally, we must see the way in which AIDS has complicated an already difficult life for these sufferers and the panic this fatal disease has brought to the hemophilic community.

«Societies rise and fall on trust; that is the currency of development and when we enter into trust - deficient communities and engage through tactics that further erode trust all in the name of bringing Jesus, democracy, gospel, development, aid, help, whatever, we cut off our nose to spite our face.

This was in the late 1980s, when the AIDS epidemic was decimating the gay community.

The pastor can provide first aid in crisis for both individuals and their families when, for varying reasons, they have been unable to contact or use community resources.

Conspicuously missing from political and legal discourse is the recognition that family members may need nurturing environments as much as they need direct aid, and that families themselves may need surrounding supportive communities in order to function in an optimal manner.

By accepting from Austin and Holmes an overly sharp distinction between law and morality, by largely abandoning the search for the common good, and by permitting individual liberty or equality to trump most other values, mainstream American law may have had a part in fostering a set of cultural conditions inhospitable to communities of memory and mutual aid.

The activities you describe are why AIDs and STDs are resurging in the LGBTQ community.

Niebuhr writes that through the image given in revelation «a pattern of dramatic unity becomes apparent with the aid of which the heart can understand what has happened, is happening and will happen to selves and their community» (80).

It might not be copper coins that we sacrifice to faithfully walk in our calling; rather, it might be time to listen to someone who has a story or experience to process, commitment to a cause that needs the aid of faithful volunteers, mental effort to solve a problem that has caused havoc in a community, patience with someone God has asked us to accompany through a trial.

In addition to all of the beauty, dignity, and goodness that I experienced, I was caught in the thicket of complexities, and systemic injustices, the importance of community development for long - term change instead of isolated aid (which can often hurt more than it helps, in the long runIn addition to all of the beauty, dignity, and goodness that I experienced, I was caught in the thicket of complexities, and systemic injustices, the importance of community development for long - term change instead of isolated aid (which can often hurt more than it helps, in the long runin the thicket of complexities, and systemic injustices, the importance of community development for long - term change instead of isolated aid (which can often hurt more than it helps, in the long runin the long run).

The Preemptive Love Coalition works in Iraq to deliver life - saving aid and provide medical services to communities in need.

In addition, although most so - called development aid in the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportivIn addition, although most so - called development aid in the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportivin the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportivin its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportivin Mexico that would be genuinely supportive.