Sentences with phrase «escape lives of poverty»

Unacknowledged by the NAACP is that access to charter schools gives blacks and other minorities a great opportunity to escape lives of poverty and / or crime in many urban areas.

These three artists and a few longtime friends from their tough, south LA neighborhood, decide the way to escape lives of poverty, violence and drugs is through their music — and the film follows their rise from local stars to international superstars, who change the industry forever, unapologetically exercising their First Amendment rights with controversial lyrics.

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Indeed, that's part of the thinking behind Universal Credit - it's about helping more people to escape the poverty trap and get on in life.

It is the hope of every mother and father, not only in Ghana, that education will help their children escape poverty, and provide them the avenue to a good life.»

«Ratcatcher» Lynne Ramsay «s expressive and well - observed debut about a latchkey lad living in the squalor of 1970s Scotland during a garbage strike is breathtaking; a beautiful and raw slice of cinema vacillating back and forth between the gray and decrepit landscapes of poverty and negligent parents and the celebratory escape of imagination and play.

Far too many students are stuck in a cycle of unending poverty, and though schools are meant to be a means of escaping such a status, many can not live up to that mission for every child.

She is the author of Hippie Boy: A Girl's Story, a compelling true story about a teenage girl who escapes her abusive Mormon stepfather and the suffocating poverty and religion at home by joining her dad on the road as a tool - selling vagabond — until his arrest forces her to take charge of her life.

Cost of living is increasing, and with Estonia being recognized as a country of technology, the Baltics, Poland and more recently Ukraine are developing into innovation and start - up centers driving the capital and escaping the poverty of post-communist state.

Further, they must do so while the people of the South are still struggling to escape poverty, and more generally to invent new, dignified, and sustainable models of life.

Further, they must do so while, on average, the people of the South are still struggling to escape poverty, and more generally to invent new, dignified and sustainable models of life.

And as our plane landed in Vancouver, we heard 500 Sri Lankan refugees also landed in Canada by boat, escaping discrimination, terror, war, and poverty; wanting just a portion of the life we Canadians take for granted.

Making connectivity more accessible to these younger children — through a combination of cheaper devices and data, as well as more «sheltered» online environments — will help bring education, healthcare, and a global perspective to young people all across the world, helping to accelerate improvements in standards of living and offer new avenues to escape poverty throughout the developing world.

Birth parents wish for improved life circumstances — attending college / finishing school, repairing relationships, escaping an abusive relationship, seeking treatment for substance abuse, working themselves out of poverty, etc..