Sentences with phrase «for poor rural communities»

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

ACT Founder and Director Dr Kunle Onabolu told Premier they «provide education for children of widows and orphans in Africa, but also to empower widows who are poor in rural African community, to provide them with counselling, training and business skills so they generate income sustainably.»

Under his plan, two - thirds of that money would be spent on the purchase and equipment of mobile mammography vehicles that could make it easier for women in poor and rural communities to receive breast cancer exams.

Two - thirds of the $ 91 million was to be spent on the purchase and equipping of mobile mammography vehicles that could make it easier for women in poor and rural communities to receive breast cancer exams.

Washington, DC (WBEN)- Congressman Chris Collins introduced legislation yesterday that will attempt to address a long - standing issue for rural communities: poor or non-existent broadband coverage.

«We have found a way of defining a «safe space» for communities to consume resources and operate within — particularly with regard to poor rural areas in developing nations.

After moving west, she selflessly served both the rural poor Indian and white communities of Oneida, Wisconsin, for 40 years.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

Working in some of the poorest, most challenging rural places, the RSCT involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, advocates for appropriate state educational policies, and addresses the critical issue of funding for rural schools.

The needs of big - city libraries, intended for scholars and other researchers, not just the public at large, are rather different from those of small - town and rural libraries — especially in poorer communities.

I'm glad people are weighing in on this issue, because creating No Kill in poor rural communities and small towns that have few resources is the next big challenge for No Kill.

Also poor rural communities have one of the greatest needs for a well funded TNR program and free to low cost s / n program.

Through our global network of local writers, we are continuing our award - winning coverage of global and local environmental challenges, with a focus on the people for whom the ecosphere matters in a direct way: rural dwellers who have little means to protect themselves against adverse conditions; communities that need to switch to sustainable development in order to survive; poor women and children, who are the most vulnerable in natural disasters.Sponsored by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and The World Bank (WB), IPS also maintains the award - winning Tierramérica, a specialised information service on environment and development.

The different chapters capitalize on assessments and experiences such as: lessons learned from Asia's Green Revolution on agricultural communities; trends in African agricultural knowledge, science and technology; trade policy impacts on food production; conditions for success of water interventions for the African rural poor; and climate change implications for agriculture and food systems.

In areas where infrastructure is poor and carbon stores are high, REDD may offer attractive economic returns relative to conventional logging and agricultural use of forest land, especially for rural communities, which are often bypassed by industrial development of rainforests.

The xTEND project enabled the establishment of a unique set of mental health - related data from two large community samples across rural and urban regions of New South Wales in which to explore the role of community and interpersonal networks, adversity and depression as potential risk factors for suicide and poor physical and psychological outcomes.

However, Bill Dent, executive director of Missouri's Family and Community Trust, says there are still problems for poor families who live in rural areas.