Sentences with phrase «aid efforts around»

(And I am picky about charity and aid efforts around the world.)

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Comments: «We continue to believe that prospects remain good for economic growth to reassert itself as challenges are persistently met by concerted efforts of country officials and central bankers around the world aided and abetted by secular trends larger than the cyclical hurdles in the immediate path.

While some have questioned the motivations behind the prince's activism towards women and African aid, the scale of his latest move may alter the conversation around his efforts.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

Iris Wagstaff, director of EHR's Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program, said she has always worked to improve the lives of people around her and discovered along the way that her science background aids her efforts.

New data for frequent large tsunamis at a remote island near Dutch Harbor, Alaska provides geological evidence to aid tsunami hazard preparedness efforts around the Pacific Rim.

Another example of using government data to help make people's lives better was after the Nepal earthquakes and the incredible grassroots effort by data scientists around the world to use open data to help first responders and aid workers better understand the situation around them.

Therefore, in an effort to aid all the sobbing ex-boyfriends of the world, let's pull on our lab coats and have a rummage around inside the average male head!

Imagine Better, an effort that originated with fans at the Harry Potter Alliance, has begun a «Hunger Is Not a Game» campaign, calling on fans to donate to Oxfam America's Grow project, which emphasizes helping people around the world grow more of their own food, rather than relying on imported food aid.

In order to provide these lessons and aid educators, the PZC is organized around plenary sessions, study groups, and mini-courses that help teachers to encourage students» efforts to understand content, recognize and develop student's multiple intellectual strengths, help students learn to think critically and creatively, and assess student work in ways that promotes further learning.

Our foci with federal advocacy efforts are around the areas of FAFSA simplification, sustaining the purchasing power of federal need - based financial aid, and ensuring continued availability of federal college access and success programs.

The 590 - page bill is an effort to renew the Higher Education Act, through which massive federal aid — currently around $ 136 billion — flows to students.

«It is a reflection of our longstanding relationship with Thai, and through efforts such as this, Boeing and its airline partners are able to deploy aid where it's needed around the world.»

As a result of the significant scientific effort to date, aided by public concern, models simulating climate change have gained considerable skill... There will be many scientific and technical challenges along the way, but the hope is that simulations of the global environment will be able to maximise the number of people around the world who can adapt to, and be protected from the worst impacts of, global warming.

To aid in that effort, this past December the U.S. Department of Energy gave the university a $ 4 million grant (at the same time it backed the Oregon floating project), and other such projects are brewing around the world.

And so, it took a concerted effort of different legal aid organizations in Tanzania to come together - one, and start the conversation and then after that, within a larger legal sector, reform programs, start having these conversations with government as well - through the Ministry of Justice and other justice sector ministries - for us to have a proper conversation around: how do we increase justice?

Throughout the month of October, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas French Club collected donations from students by asking around for contributions in an effort to aid hurricane victims in Haiti.

Collaboration with local AIDS Service organizations and state entities around referrals, reporting and cross-agency efforts

• Provided physical support to residents including grooming, washing, toileting and bathing • Made beds, changed linens and coordinated efforts with laundry staff to ensure constant supply of bedsheets and towels • Assisted residents in moving around by providing physical support and pushing wheelchairs • Responded to emergency situations by performing CPR and First Aid • Assisted residents during outdoor activities and provided companionship