Sentences with phrase «children fleeing»

The national foundation is dedicated to supporting shelters for women and children fleeing violence across Canada, and originally committed to donate $ 1 million over the three years since its inception in 1998 — a target that has already been far exceeded.

Formed in 1998, the foundation had pledged to donate $ 1 million to support shelters in our local communities for women and children fleeing violence.

Proceeds were directed to local shelter YWCA Harbour House in support of women and children fleeing domestic violence.

Nova House provides safe shelter, information, emotional support, assistance, education and advocacy for women and children fleeing violence at home.

«Realtors are proud to be a part of making sure that women and children fleeing violence and abuse in Elgin County have a safe place to go,» said Arnott, «somewhere with enough room to take them in and care for them and help them get back on their feet.»

The funds were directed to the Powell River Transition House, an organization that provides safety to women and their children fleeing violence as well as counselling, helpline support and community referrals.

Attendees gave generously, donating just over $ 3,000 for the cause, all of which will benefit the YWCA Arise Shelter, which offers a caring home, counselling and support to women and children fleeing abuse.

The money raised will go to women and children fleeing domestic violence across Canada.

The Calgary Real Estate Board Charitable Foundation has contributed $ 500,000 toward the Building for Liberty capital campaign for the Brenda Strafford Society's housing initiative, which will provide new support for women and children fleeing domestic violence.

The event raised $ 12,507 for Saskatoon Interval House, a shelter providing a safe haven for women and children fleeing domestic violence.

All the funds raised will support YWCA Harbour House, a 24 - bed crisis shelter for women and children fleeing abusive relationships.

Assisted in providing a safe, proactive and productive residential environment for women and children fleeing from domestic violence.

The world - famous image, showing a group of children fleeing a napalm strike, includes a naked minor, which Facebook says is enough to justify its removal.

We are a nation of laws, yet we do not provide legal support in any comprehensive way for the millions of people who can not afford a lawyer when they really need one — victims of natural disasters, battered women, children fleeing persecution in their home countries, and many others.

the AIRE Centre in litigation concerning refugee status of children fleeing from the migrant camps of Calais

This local story — of children fleeing live - threatening conditions at our own borders who desperately need help — shows the result of false government claims that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant, rather than part of the natural cycle of life that connects plants and animals:

Think of Two Children Menaced by a Nightingale by Max Ernst, with its open razor and the children fleeing in terror.

In recent years, the U.S. has taken in more than 150,000 school - age children fleeing some 110 countries.

One of us, Richard Ladkani, has just been nominated for the German Television Prize's documentary category for producing a feature about children fleeing from Tibet.

The city is planning to increase emergency housing for thousands of homeless adults and children fleeing domestic violence, the latest effort by the de Blasio administration to address the city's growing homelessness problem.

The council's unaccompanied minors initiative was launched in 2014 following a surge in children fleeing Central America and crossing the southern border into the U.S. seeking permanent residency in the states.

While Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner wants the city to be a temporary shelter for Central American children fleeing to the country, there is a vocal opposition against it.

The federal government is dropping plans to house children fleeing violence in Central America and coming to the United States in temporary shelters, including one considered in Syracuse.

What are they doing to make laws to provide shelter to the thousands of children fleeing the conflict in the North - East?

An Arabic language Christian satellite television channel teaching young children core curriculum subjects, such as Arabic, English and Math is giving hope to refugee children fleeing Syria.

Finally, consider the militarization of our society's response to recent racialized conflict: From tear - gassed protesters and check points on Ferguson thruways to calls for a militarized response to immigrant children fleeing oppression in neighboring countries.

Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants.

For over 50 years, regardless of the political environment or changes in the economy, GLIDE has stood with the most vulnerable, including poor people, those with illness, people of color, immigrants, as well as all families and children fleeing war and oppression.

Yes to a decent refugee policy that provides a home for desperate men, women and children fleeing war: immigrants and refugees helped to build this country, and will continue to do so.

He cited America's history of giving «sanctuary to desperate children for centuries,» the «blight on our national reputation» when we refused to accept Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in 1939, and his Christian faith as reasons for the decision.

«Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants,» the statement said.

The company also made an unpopular decision in 2016 to block a Norwegian newspaper editor from posting an iconic Vietnam War photo of a terrified, naked child fleeing her village after a vicious napalm attack.

«If you're a child fleeing on your own you have very little understanding of where you're coming to and what the asylum system there might be,» explains Catherine Gladwell.

Several months ago, Prosper and Alice Gahungu and their three children fled their homeland, where thousands of people have been massacred in a civil war between the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis.

Children fled that day while their teachers screamed into the relentless roar.

The setup is not unlike what a child fleeing the strictures of daily life might make, with a child's essentials for escape: shelter and books.

During the war, her children fled to a refugee camp in Guinea.

The Supreme Court of Canada struck a compassionate note today as it set aside a decision by the former Ministry of Immigration to reject the post-refugee application on humanitarian grounds of a child fleeing war.

The company also made an unpopular decision in 2016 to block a Norwegian newspaper editor from posting an iconic Vietnam War photo of a terrified, naked child fleeing her village after a vicious napalm attack.

Not exact matches

Most of these were children — increasingly 12 and younger and female — either fleeing violence in their home countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala or seeking family reunification.

Florence Abraham had her bakery destroyed in the devastating floods in Nigeria last year, and she had to flee with her husband and five children.

She said she fled her home in Jutiapa, Honduras, because the father of her son threatened to kill her and their child.

When Gary Bui was a baby, Brandy had left him to flee from the Viet Cong, because she feared the repercussions of having a child with an enemy soldier.

He then fled to Namibia, where he bought a $ 450,000 home at a golf resort and enrolled his children in school.

With your help, we can support families fleeing Eastern Ghouta, feed children in South Sudan under threat of famine, reach survivors after natural disasters like Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico — and so much more.

On Friday, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced a plan for his state to temporarily shelter up to 1,000 unaccompanied children who have recently fled to the United States as part of the ongoing border crisis.

Several children and families that have fled their homes in Myanmar to escape military - led violence are now living in refugee camps in the neighboring country of Bangladesh and require certain necessities while they await placement.

Horgan committed to making things better for survivors of sexual violence and for those fleeing abusive homes by making sure crime prevention dollars go to deliver much - needed services that keep more women safe, improving public policy, directing more funding to provincial and community based programs that directly serve women and children, and increasing funding to violence prevention and intervention programs by $ 8 million a year.

They are extremely vulnerable families, women and children who are fleeing for their lives.

It strikes me today as ironic that the children and grandchildren of the families that fled or were forced from the city ¯ to Queens, Long Island, the counties ¯ are now clamoring and clambering to get back in, if they can afford the price of a closet or the stress of roommates.