Sentences with phrase «for child refugees»

UNC medical student Yousef Abu - Salha fulfilled a dream of caring for child refugees from Syria, while honoring the legacy of his slain sisters Yusor and Razan and his best friend Deah, who are remembered throughout the United States and the world as the three young Muslim Americans who were senselessly murdered in Chapel Hill in February 2015.

Yesterday Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, held a news conference where he supported the efforts by Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Bishop Robert Cunningham of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse to provide accommodations for child refugees from violence in Central America.

Not exact matches

Herself a refugee from a time - intensive career in business consulting, Rothschild started NextKids to serve her own need, but feels that the time is ripe for this sort of innovative approach to child care.

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.

World Vision, the largest faith - based charity in the world has been helping refugees from Syria for a long time, with a special emphasis on children and food.

This year, Hillary Clinton has better policy proposals to help improve the lives of women, children, and families than Donald Trump, whose pro-life convictions are lukewarm at best, and whose mass deportation plan would rip hundreds of thousands of families apart, whose contempt for Latinos, Muslims, refugees and people with disabilities would further marginalized the «least of these» among us, and whose support for torture and targeting civilians in war call into question whether Christians who support him are truly pro-life or simply anti-abortion.

This coming Sunday, Christians all around the world — in churches and in homes and in refugee camps and on the streets — will light the first candle, the Hope candle, to open Advent, the traditional season of preparation for the coming of the Christ - child as well as the reminder that Christ is coming again.

So, as governments oversee matters of security, we will care for the hurting, calling Christians to embrace refugees through their denomination, congregation or other non-profits by providing for immediate and long - term needs, such as housing, food, clothing, employment, English language classes, and schooling for children.

The charity has already helped hundreds of refugees reintegrate back into society, helping children get back to school and finding housing, jobs and language classes for the parents.

«As Christian leaders, we have a commitment to caring for the vulnerable in our churches while also supporting just, compassionate, and welcoming policies toward refugees and other immigrants,» the letter opens, going on to request legal protection for the Dreamers who entered the US as children, an increase in the admittance of refugees and persecuted Christians, and quicker priority for immigrants seeking to reunite with their families.

The good news is that thousands of World Vision staff from around the world will continue their good work today - building wells, providing life - saving vaccinations, caring for Syrian refugees, partnering with communities to develop business and agricultural opportunities, lifting families out of poverty, and feeding, clothing, and sheltering vulnerable children.

In recent years, Stearns has called the Church to engage in the global refugee crisis and to follow Jesus into the most difficult places in the world to alleviate human suffering and care for the world's most vulnerable children.

We can't simply click our tongues in sympathy for the child in an African refugee camp, orphaned in guerrilla warfare.

Bayern Munich have announced that they are setting up a special training camp for refugees, offering meals and German lessons for fleeing men, women and children.

Bayern also plan to donate $ 1m for refugee projects and will lead refugee children onto the pitch for their next home game against FC Augsburg to promote the cause.

In addition, Bayern players will be accompanied by a German child on one hand and a young refugee on the other when they take to the pitch for their next home game against Augsburg on September 12 «to set a sign for the integration of refugees.»

It is not the first time Wolfsburg have invited refugees and asylum seekers to their home games, with 800 free tickets distributed for previous Bundesliga games and walk - on children selected for their game with Cologne last year from local refugees.

Be a force for action and hope and join our international community of volunteers as we unite to bring humanitarian aid in the form of child carriers, baby beds and survival items to refugee families.

This movement was dedicated to making life easier for children and youth (i.e. Young Carers) who provided care for family members with chronic conditions, substance abuse issues, mental health issues, and / or provided translation services for immigrant and refugee parents.

Though well - meaning donors often give formula in camps for refugees and displaced persons, health campaigners are working to change this practice, too, noting that even if women are malnourished, their breast milk is probably healthier than formula, and that breastfeeding promotes bonding and a sense of security vital for women and children facing upheaval.

Supporting formula feeding for families on the move is especially difficult and is partly why the «Interim Considerations for the feeding support of Infants and Young Children under 2 years of age in refugee and migrant transit settings in Europe» were developed.

And see: Interim Operational Considerations for the feeding support of Infants and Young Children under two years of age in refugee and migrant transit settings in Europe from UNHCR, Save the Children, ENN and reviewers.

The house belongs to an elderly couple known for fostering hundreds of children, including refugees.

We do not yet have comparable numbers for 2015, but given the rise refugees this year, we can expect a much higher number of disappeared children too.

Week after week he campaigned for the UK to take in child refugees from Calais.

Cameron announced the government will accept a resettlement scheme for children living in European refugee camps for some of those under 16 registered in Greek, Italian or French camps before 20 March.

Secure facilities for women and children are overflowing, conditions were described as «diabolical» even before the winter came, and French riot police routinely employ tear gas against unarmed and starving refugees.

Loach stated: «Thank you to the academy for endorsing the truths of what the film says, which hundreds and thousands of people in this country know, the most vulnerable and poorest are treated by the Government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful, a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help and that's a disgrace too.»

Amazingly proud of @YvetteCooperMP today for standing up to the Prime Minister speaking with such passion for refugee children

For example, she told the Erie County Legislature during a Feb. 16, 2017, committee hearing that «through looking in our database we found that 95 percent of children we checked had at least one screen at their pediatrician's office and the other 5 percent are mostly refugees.»

The home secretary has rejected comparisons with Donald Trump after it emerged that the government is to end its commitment to provide a safe haven for thousands of vulnerable lone child refugees in Europe.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio holds up a photo of a the body of a dead child refugee being recovered from a beach (Photo: Andrew Burton for Getty Images)

Schumer said he dropped his reservations after a classified briefing assured him that it is working — that none of the 2,000 or so Syrian refugees admitted so far have been arrested or deported for terrorism, and that «the overwhelming majority are women, children and the elderly.»

Sessions after lunch will center on narratives for change and will include breakout discussions on helping seniors live healthy, independent lives; helping immigrants and refugees thrive in their new community; and helping children and families escape poverty, among other topics.

He was chairman of the Save the Children Fund, administered a number of educational trusts for the underprivileged and worked with groups for the relief of refugees.

Topics include the rights of persons with disabilities; the rights and responsibilities of drug users and ethical considerations for dignified addiction treatment; improving maternal and child health through advancements in women's rights; the effects of violence; access to affordable and appropriate health care and treatment; health disparities between different population groups; health during war and conflict; the health of internally displaced persons and refugees; and recognition of social and structural forces that impact the health of individuals and groups.

«Our pilot study shows that using game - based learning is an effective, cost - efficient way to teach refugee children important skills — and importantly, this structured environment provided distressed refugee children an outlet to imagine a better future for themselves,» said Sinem Vatanartiran, president of BAU International University and a Project Hope investigator.

Naming a childhood town is an easy reply for many, but for an adopted child or young refugees separated from their parents, the answer may never come.

In response to the educational and psychological crisis among refugee children, the NYU and Bahcesehir researchers enlisted colleagues with deep expertise in educational technology and designed an online, game - based learning intervention for refugee children named Project Hope.

In Lebanon, War Child Holland, a branch of the global NGO that assists children in conflict zones, is evaluating three efforts: a life skills program, a program to reduce parents» stress, and a World Health Organization — designed mental health intervention for Syrian refugees.

Some refugee families feared their child's data would be handed off to the Jordanian government, and they needed reassurance that the information was purely for research, she says.

There is a great need to increase development training to interview children who have experienced trauma for social services, refugee situations, doctors, police and schools.

Consular Birth certificates for Lankan refugee children born in Tamil Nadu are being issued this month, the Hindu reported.

Rohingya children wait for food handouts at Thangkhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Thursday.

This book was an education for me — about refugees and what children go through in a war.

The material is perfect for a Oscar type film, with a young child who joins a group of refugees after the death of his parents.

January 31, 2017 • Amitai Etzioni, who escaped Nazi Germany as a child, proposes a way for the U.S. to bring in young Syrian refugee children.

To further consider JUPITER»S MOON, in which refugees are being chased and shot down by Hungarian police Holocaust - style, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, where hidden homelessness eats away the American dream for children born in impoverished households, and LOVELESS, a cautionary tale that sheds light on issues of abandonment and toxic selfishness seen in: no wonder everybody just wants to die in HAPPY END?

Education is the most important thing a refugee child can carry across borders, and their brightest hope for a better future.»

Jacques stayed in Kampala and created a school for refugee children, he spoke to them in their home languages, he made them feel welcome, he built relationships with them.