Sentences with phrase «by rural families»

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

Not exact matches

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.

And unless the very availability of modern contraceptives by itself stimulates a revolution in attitudes toward family size — as over a quarter of a century of family planning efforts have failed to do in Nepal, and three decades of programs have not done in rural Pakistan — the demographic impact of family planning would be a discrete and self - extinguishing adjustment, as the previously «unmet demand» of motivated users is progressively satisfied.

Organic Valley indicates that «the central mission of our cooperative is to support rural communities by protecting the health of the family farm — working toward both economic and environmental sustainability.»

A: Our mission is to help sustain family farms in Marin and Sonoma Counties by providing high quality, minimally processed organic dairy products, and to support family farming and revitalize rural communities everywhere through advocacy and education.

Today when you buy Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, you are buying the highest quality coconut oil we have to offer, and it is still made by hand and benefiting families in the rural areas of the Philippines where the coconuts grow.

It seems a rural escape by a lake or river is the quintessential city slicker's dream, but a cottage vacation every summer is simply not doable for most families.

If you were lucky to be in a city, you may have been helped by a licensed midwife (European cities started educating and registering midwives around the fifteenth century); if you were in the rural outback, you may have had an uneducated but experienced midwife or a female family friend.

«The desire for a low - intervention birth in a familiar environment surrounded by family and friends, lack of transportation in rural areas, and cost factors could all factor in.»

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

As a mother, municipal official, and environmental advocate, Jen Metzger understands first - hand the challenges faced by families in our rural communities.

Longtime Volunteer at Rural Outreach Center, Aurora Adult Day Services, AKTION Club is celebrated by family and friends at East Aurora Senior Center

«Here in Erie County, the injurious effects of this budget will be felt by our children, our seniors, our working families, and all communities, especially in our rural areas.

Metzger said that she understands firsthand the challenges faced by families in rural communities, and that she is done waiting around for state senators to do their jobs.

You see, at the end of last year, while vacationing with my family at an undisclosed rural location, I found myself reclining by a fireplace with a book titled Electronics for Dummies by Gordon McComb and Earl Boysen.

By that, I mean, everything that has shaped you; your education, gender, upbringing, whether you live in a rural area or urban, the color of your skin, your family relationship, if you have allergies, if you work with physical or health considerations, whether you have been sexually assaulted... and on and on

The mission of Harmony Hill is to transform the lives of those affected by cancer and to inspire healthy living for all: I am a Family Nurse Practitioner, INCCP Associate Faculty, a former Univ. of Washington Assistant Professor, and was one of the first Nurse Practitioners in this state practicing at a rural health clinic in the Cascade Mountains.

Today when you buy Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil, you are still buying a coconut oil made by hand and benefiting families in the rural areas of the Philippines where the coconuts grow.

By Samuel Burke, CNN Before their wedding ceremony begins in rural Afghanistan, a 40 - year - old man sits to be photographed with his 11 - year - old A Canadian man who was married, with seven kids, has left his family in order to fulfill his true identity - as a six - year - old girl.

With the creation of Jewish ghettos by the Nazis, thousands of families carry their belongings or push them in barrows on the forced, mass exodus from rural homes.

The script, credited to Bertino and Ben Katai, resets the action in a deserted trailer park, essentially a series of tin cans surrounded by rural nothingness, and increases the besieged cast to a family of four: Mom (Christina Hendricks), Dad (Martin Henderson), and their two teenage kids, sullen Kinsey (Bailee Madison) and jockish Luke (Lewis Pullman).

Adapted from Hillary Jordan's 2008 novel of the same name, Mudbound tells the story of two families, one black and one white, struggling to get by in rural, post-war America.

This inventive thriller, about an African - American man who finds himself trapped amid sinister shenanigans when he visits his white girlfriend's family at their rural home, is exciting, funny and written and directed with surprisingly stylish flair by comic Jordan Peele of «Key and Peele» fame.

A struggling painter (Ethan Embry) is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas, in this creepy haunted - house tale.

It begins with a family being driven off the road in rural Texas by dangerous men and turns into a husband / father trying to make sense of a horrifying night that has turned into a lifelong nightmare.

Based on the novel of the same name by Hillary Jordan, Mudbound is set in rural Mississippi on a farm where two very different families are struggling to survive.

Lush, evocative and loosely based on a novel by Andre Aciman, it's set in rural Italy in the early 1980s, where a family's peaceful summer is disturbed by the arrival of a charismatic stranger.

Mudbound — Set in the rural American South during World War II, director Dee Rees tells an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.

Set in the rural American South during World War II, director Dee Rees tells an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father (Michael Shannon) living in rural Ohio questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or just from himself and his delusions.

A famous case in Amityville is still a while off for the Warrens when they're approached by Carolyn (Lili Taylor), mother of five girls, who begs for some paranormal assistance: It seems her family's rural home, recently occupied, is yielding far too many bumps in the night for the typical fixer - upper.

Set in the rural American South at the end of World War II, Mudbound is an epic story of two families pitted against one another by a ruthless social hierarchy, yet bound together by the shared farmland of the Mississippi Delta.

Instead, the senator proposes to change adolescence one family at a time by extolling America as it was in many rural and small - town households at the midpoint of the 20th century.

At least 60 percent of rural families are within ten miles of intradistrict choice, interdistrict choice, and private schools, but urban families are more likely to have these choices close by.

Four months after that conversation with our beloved family and our arrival in Peru, we are working as volunteers educators from the University of Seville, under the agreement with the Regional Government of Piura, in the project «Improvement of the conditions of basic health and educational quality of rural Peruvian - Ecuadorian border district of Lancones, Piura — Peru ``, funded by the Basque Government and Engineering Association for Cooperation (IC - LI).

-- California charter public schools grew significantly this 2011 - 12 school year, opening at high numbers statewide, and serving more students and families in both urban and rural areas, according to data released by the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) today.

«Often we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that children in rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K programs.

Blood, Bones & Butter follows an unconventional journey through the many kitchens Hamilton has inhabited through the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six - burner with an oily wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; the soulless catering factories that helped pay the rent; Hamilton's own kitchen at Prune, with its many unexpected challenges; and the kitchen of her Italian mother - in - law, who serves as the link between Hamilton's idyllic past and her own future family - the result of a difficult and prickly marriage that nonetheless yields rich and lasting dividends.

The intertwining of the white and black Alston clan in a rural region of North Carolina and Georgia is investigated by filmmaker Macky Alston, who searches for possible family links buried in unspoken memories and embarrassed silences.

When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police.

Our reviewer predicts not only that these fans will be satisfied, but also that new fans will be won over by Morgan's «painfully luminous portrait of rural American family life: honest, captivating and resplendent in all its messy glory.»

Even though the conflict officially ended in 2006, child traffickers have continued to prey on rural villagers» concerns for their children by deceiving families with promises of safety for their children and attendance at top boarding schools in the Kathmandu Valley - but the sad reality is that the children who are taken from their homes are often kept as slaves or beggars, taken to illegal...

Laced with touching passages evoking the charms of rural Virginia, imbued with graceful humor, and enriched by with unforgettable characters - A heart - wrenching yet triumphant story about family and adversity from times past that resounds forcefully today.

In scenes alive with emotional truth, River, Cross My Heart weighs the effect of Clara's absence on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city, to which they have moved in search of a better life for themselves and their children; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, twelve - year - old Johnnie Mae, who must come to terms with the powerful and confused emotions sparked by her sister's death as she struggles to decide and discover the kind of woman she will become.

Its pace is moderate, its tone restrained, but its elegiac mood, so wonderfully evoked by John Lee's darkly lyrical reading, draws you into the life of Jack Luxton, the last of a dairy - farming family in rural England.

Most applications for the direct single - family housing programs are received, processed, and approved by Rural Development employees, primarily in local offices (previously known as county offices).

This year, however, the program is enjoying a windfall — the result of a continuing resolution signed by President Obama that doubled the size of the USDA's Rural Development Service's Section 502 single family guaranteed loan program, taking it from $ 12 to $ 24 billion.

The USDA mortgage goes by many names: the Rural Development (RD) loan, Single Family Housing Guaranteed program, or most commonly, the USDA loan.

She grew up in rural Mississippi and was always surrounded by her family pets which included dogs, cats, horses, sugar gliders, and even a raccoon.