Sentences with phrase «alleviate poverty in»

If the next global development agenda seeks to alleviate poverty in all its manifestations, then that can not be possible if conflict transformation is not incorporated as half of the world's extreme poor live in conflict - affected countries.

Yoga Gives Back is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to raising awareness and funds in order to alleviate poverty in India... and find ways for the global yoga community to help the poorest people in the country that gave birth to YOGA.

In an effort to alleviate poverty in Ghana, True Moringa works directly with farmers in the region to cultivate its line of sulfate - and paraben - free oils.

Mr. Ziedeng appealed to Plus - One Investments not to monopolize the production of the crop but rather encourage other potential investors to come in and support so that they could engage more farmers to alleviate poverty in the area.

The petitions are based on the false assumption that the mere creation of regions will accelerate development, improve governance and alleviate poverty in the newly created regions.

You can liken it to SADA which is meant to provide jobs and alleviate poverty in the Central Region,» the former Deputy Minister said.

Additionally Food Banks Canada works with governments to advocate for effective policy change that will alleviate poverty in Canada.

Part of the problem in helping alleviate poverty in the area is the fact that fundraising is more difficult when the general population doesn't know «hidden homelessness» exists.

As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.

After all, the widespread use of income support for alleviating poverty in families where a woman has had a child out of wedlock is relatively recent.

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Q: Some have argued TOMS has failed to alleviate poverty, in part, because shoemakers aren't getting the wages they deserve.

Mr Nsofor encourages investors to take part of the upcoming ICO as «the success of the Kora Project will be a milestone in the long running quest to alleviate poverty for billions of people and to let everyone share in the wealth created globally.»

Noonday believes every child belongs in a family and they work to alleviate poverty and economic orphan crisis through entrepreneurship.

Following St. Francis, for example, means being «more interested in alleviating poverty and helping the afflicted than in staking out doctrinaire positions on things like contraception.»

He has led the One Campaign, which seeks additional spending to alleviate global poverty, and worked with Bob Geldof to arrange Live 8, the concurrent benefit concerts in all of the countries of the Group of Eight, or G8 (the world's eight largest economies).

Poverty and material deprivation, in all their various manifestations, cause great suffering, and in some cases government can do much to alleviate them — and even more, to provide an atmosphere conducive to broad social and material advance.

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

The ONE campaign, an advocacy group co-founded by the rock star Bono to help alleviate poverty and fight AIDS in Africa, hoped the metaphor would carry on to their project to get people more involved in AIDS advocacy.

One approach to youth ministry is evident in an antihunger effort by a Christian organization dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in economically distressed areas of the world.

Initially, the bank's program for alleviating global poverty was dominated by a strategy of economic growth, measured primarily in terms of GDP and channeled largely through big projects aimed at infrastructure development that benefited the rich more than the poor.

Moynihan, a New Deal liberal, believed in alleviating poverty by channeling public money directly to the poor.

Moynihan's thinking on this was influenced by his own experiences of deprivation and the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which led him to put particular stress on the importance of families in alleviating poverty.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

From a strictly materialistic perspective, capitalism has been an incredible method for alleviating absolute poverty, as Deirdre McCloskey and Steven Pinker have separately documented in recent work.

But, save one notable exception, the policy prescriptions made by the bishops are either accepted uncritically or criticized for not going far enough in suggesting redistributive plans for alleviating poverty (at least two contributors explicitly advocate a socialist economy).

As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

His bold account of success in alleviating poverty were thought provoking and inspiring.

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

Fair Trade (generically and as trademarked by various organizations) is primarily concerned with alleviating poverty through greater equity in international trade.

Two other accompanying white papers describe the critical role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal Child Nutrition Programs in alleviating poverty, reducing food insecurity, and improving nutrition, health, and well - being.

Claire said: «It has never been more important to focus on alleviating fuel poverty in the UK and I am delighted to be joining Warm Zones at such a crucial time.

Publishing «The Case for Family Allowances» in 1940, she argued that the poverty experienced by women and children could be substantially alleviated by a cash payment directly to the mother.

Due to this inglorious picture, the Region has unfortunately assumed that any project, national or local, sited in it should be with the intent of alleviating its chief enemy, poverty.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

The deal is part of the government's commitment to alleviating fuel poverty and follows Alistair Darling's pledge to increase the winter fuel allowance, announced in last month's Budget.

SADA is very dear to my heart.My mother is a Northerner, the incidence of poverty is highest in the three Northern Regions and for a President who comes from the Northern Region, who promised to alleviate poverty, what happened to the Guinea fowls?

«As an organization dedicated to alleviating poverty, Project H.O.M.E. is proud to be working with FreshDirect and others to makesure everyone in our city is able to feed their families this Thanksgiving,» said S. Mary Scullion, executive director of Project H.O.M.E.

The article's title was a nod to Jonathan Swift's 1729 satirical essay, «A Modest Proposal,» which mocked harsh British policies in Ireland by suggesting that the Irish alleviate their poverty by selling their children as meat to the English gentry.

The government - backed effort, known as the Grain - for - Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest in an effort to prevent erosion and alleviate rural poverty.

Rockefeller Foundation funded a 7 - component project on drought - tolerance in rice, which was launched to alleviate food insecurity and poverty in rural Asia.

They partner with over 30 + artisan groups from around the world that are working in various communities to provide dignified jobs, pay fair wages, provide education, alleviate poverty, rescue human trafficking victims, provide a home for orphans, and SO MUCH MORE.

These calls for rethinking of the various approaches aimed at alleviating poverty and probably start targeting poverty, thereby looking more at the questions of the opportunities available to those living in fragile states or conflict affected countries.

Meanwhile, defenders of the current system view all this talk about the achievement gap with suspicion — asserting, as they do, that schooling is hopelessly intertwined with conditions in the family and community, and thus that we can't expect results to improve much until we alleviate poverty and racism.

Given the extent of poverty in our society and the heavy burden that has been placed on the schools to alleviate its impact, it is astounding how much educational progress has been made.

The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit Public Interest Law Office of Rochester in September 1998, claims that the state has deprived the plaintiffs — all low - income black and Hispanic students — of their rights under the state constitution to a sound basic education by failing to alleviate concentrations of poverty in the 37,000 - student Rochester school district.

As its name implies, the Head Start program was developed to enhance the experiences of children in low - income families prior to school entry, with the goal of alleviating the negative effects of growing up in poverty.

People around the world look to the United Nations to help alleviate poverty and hunger, to keep the peace, to expand education, and stand up for human rights in every corner of the globe.

If we do nothing to alleviate family poverty, especially in our hardest hit communities, our quest to fix persistently failing schools will continue to fall flat.

For example, in Jennings, Missouri, Superintendent Tiffany Anderson successfully turned around a racially isolated, high poverty district by adopting a holistic approach that «[used] the tools of the school district to alleviate the barriers poverty creates.»