Sentences with phrase «from alleviating poverty»
The United Nations has attempted to fill this gap by securing a pledge from developed countries to halve the number of people without any form of sanitation — whether basic outdoor latrines or indoor toilets — by 2015 as part of its Millennium Development Goals (a series of goals for world development, ranging from alleviating poverty to fighting diseases like AIDS).
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As the founder of Childs Capital LLC, a Wall Street firm that seeks to alleviate poverty in developing nations by investing in private enterprise, her business trips take her around the world, from Africa to Latin America.
He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.
From a strictly materialistic perspective, capitalism has been an incredible method for alleviating absolute poverty, as Deirdre McCloskey and Steven Pinker have separately documented in recent work.
As passionate as I was about social justice and alleviating poverty, child sponsorship struck me as an old - fashioned model for giving in which a few select children essentially walked through a breadline to receive meals, schools supplies, and medical attention from far - away white «saviors» whose first - world guilt was eased by letters ensuring that their contributions made a difference.
SADA is very dear to my heart.My mother is a Northerner, the incidence of poverty is highest in the three Northern Regions and for a President who comes from the Northern Region, who promised to alleviate poverty, what happened to the Guinea fowls?
And there's little doubt that it's needed, according to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: developing countries like China and India will burn their coal reserves to power industry and alleviate poverty so developing cleaner ways to use it will be a global imperative.
They partner with over 30 + artisan groups from around the world that are working in various communities to provide dignified jobs, pay fair wages, provide education, alleviate poverty, rescue human trafficking victims, provide a home for orphans, and SO MUCH MORE.
At the end of CowParade, the majority of the Edinburgh herd will go to market — a Gala Auction, with 75 per cent of the net proceeds from the auction going to the following charities: OneCity Trust, tackling social exclusion through a range of community projects, and VETAID, working to alleviate poverty through sustainable farming in developing countries.
Proceeds from the sales of the sculptures were donated to Food Tank, an NGO which supports environmentally, socially and economically sustainable ways of alleviating hunger, obesity and poverty.
We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.
To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).
Here, Robert Stevens from ClimateCare, a recently certified B Corporation and winner of a Queen's Award for Sustainable Development for its outstanding contribution to tackling climate change and alleviating poverty, responds to some of the common questions that surround carbon offsetting, to help you decide if a voluntary carbon offset programme should be part of your business's carbon management strategy.
Low - income families would receive a boosted rebate to help compensate for the damages of pollution they already suffer from and to alleviate poverty.
Furthermore, these models fail to account for how reliable, affordable energy from traditional sources benefit people — by extending lives, fighting disease, reducing hunger, and alleviating poverty.
From what I understand from reading reports from Oxfam and other aid agencies, climate change is seen as not only excerbating poverty but also hampering efforts to alleviateFrom what I understand from reading reports from Oxfam and other aid agencies, climate change is seen as not only excerbating poverty but also hampering efforts to alleviatefrom reading reports from Oxfam and other aid agencies, climate change is seen as not only excerbating poverty but also hampering efforts to alleviatefrom Oxfam and other aid agencies, climate change is seen as not only excerbating poverty but also hampering efforts to alleviate it.
The company supports the Born Free Foundation, which protects wild elephants from poachers and opposes their use in zoos and circuses, as well as Tusk, a charity that funds community - based projects in Africa to conserve wildlife and alleviate poverty.