Sentences with phrase «displaced people around the world»

The UN estimates there are around 34 million refugees and internally displaced people around the world.

They are a team of 10 refugees — just a small representation of the millions of displaced people around the world.

And then, of course, there are the forces that are physically displacing people around the world and here in the US.

An all - girls science club from San Fernando Senior High School near Los Angeles has designed a solar - powered tent meant to help homeless and displaced people around the world.

Hacking Better Shelter is series of IKEA - style hacks designed to expand the use of Better Shelter, a leading emergency shelter system housing displaced people around the world.

Ai has swiftly become the art world's conscience when it comes to the plight of displaced peoples around the world.

According to the International Rescue Committee and the UNHCR, of the millions of displaced people around the world, half are children.

Not exact matches

Yobel Market sells all sorts of fairly - traded, sustainably - created wares from around the world to help empower people who have been exploited, displaced and impoverished.

Current conflicts raging around the world have created the highest numbers of displaced people ever tallied by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the agency that tracks and advocates for displaced populations.

Around the world, the estimated number of refugees and people displaced within their home countries has risen from 10 million in 1980 to 50 million today.

The competition was won by an all - girl team from Rendcomb College in Gloucestershire who took home the first prize for their app, Displaced, designed to help charities to coordinate the logistics of supporting vulnerable people around the world.

NaTakallam connects displaced people — primarily Syrian refugees — with students around the world, to provide affordable, flexible and tailored language practice, inte...

Portals exist around the world in Afghanistan, Rwanda, Honduras, Mexico, an Internally Displaced Persons camp in Iraq, a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, and more.

Around the world people are displaced, driven from their homelands.

With mobile phones as the default mode of communication for many around the world, including refugees and displaced persons, the ability to charge those devices is almost as important as having access to a clean light source, so LuminAID has a goal of sending 500 of these lights to Syrian refugees.

-- this huge drought, dust storms starting up in bigger volumes again, the Pakistan flood that displaced 20 million people, the Russian drought and fires that led to the highest spike in food prices ever recorded — that has an impact on poor people around the world.

At six feet, though, around 12 million people in the United States would be displaced, and the world's most vulnerable megacities, like Shanghai, Mumbai, and Ho Chi Minh City, could be wiped off the map.

A new model for prefabricated homes, Abōd ® Shelters, is making a difference in South Africa, and designers hope that this solution can be made available to people around the world who suffer from poverty, homelessness, or are displaced by natural disasters.

Around the world, large dams have displaced 40 - 80 million people in the last 60 years, with indigenous, tribal and peasant communities being the most severely impacted.

Last week, we heard news of massive floods causing untold damage and killing and displacing thousands of people around the world, in the southern United States, South Asia, West Africa, and Yemen.

And we will be better off there than many of the countries of the world, and one of the most remarkable things, if you take the country you've just talked about — Bangladesh — Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in, if we do not halt the march of climate change, and we'll have 170 million displaced people wandering around the world, looking for somewhere to live.

However, for some islands around the world, sea level rise is either already displacing people or will be in not too long.

Lord Deben claimed that climate change will cause «much greater numbers of heatwaves one end and flooding at the other, and some parts of the country, like the east of England, with very little water andother parts with huge amounts of water», and that «Bangladesh will practically be unable to be lived in», which will in turn cause «170million displaced people wandering around the world».

Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million people were displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Sensitive people often absorb the pain of the world around them, taking to heart the mean - spiritedness of others and the pain that some others displace.