Sentences with phrase «global citizens with»

MPOWER Financing, which has been around since 2014, sought to help with that problem by offering global citizens with academic and career promise personal loans for their college expenses that don't require collateral or a co-signer.

Many R2I - ers regard themselves as global citizens with plans to travel to and live in different countries.

Thomson Elementary School is a rigorous and multicultural environment where students grow into global citizens with a sense of inquiry, values and a desire for high academic achievement.

These educators are preparing a generation of global citizens with knowledge of global issues and developing their skills to work towards positive social change.

Then they can be offered or made available according to the regional dynamics to have an initial acceptance followed by creating conducive atmosphere to enable a progressive and broader perspective oriented global citizens with global concerns and capabilities and character to enhance global welfare on all aspects of life of human beings, other species and the whole environment.

Not exact matches

The result is To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science, a Public Benefit Corporation that seeks to «collaborate with global citizens to advance science and build a powerful community of interest» that is made up of three divisions: Entertainment, Science, and Aerospace.

The African nation of Zambia, for instance, has only enough food available to provide its population with 1,870 calories on average, per day, according to a striking global map in the October issue of National Geographic — and in truth, in much of the world, such calorie counts offer an inflated view of what's actually accessible to most citizens, due to widespread poverty, civil unrest, natural disasters, corruption, government mismanagement, food - distribution failures, and other issues.

Last year, the U.S. Federal Reserve earned about $ 70 billion just by providing its citizens (or, in the case of the C - note, a global criminal elite) with physical money.

Looking ahead, Korea and a Canada can continue to provide each other with «gateway» partnerships — linking the dynamism of Korea and Asia with the strengths of Canada and North American business — that promote economic growth and prosperity for our citizens, build a safer world, and ensure a strong global economy with effective governance systems.

The Warsaw Conference has put the interests of dirty energy industries over that of global citizens — with a «Coal & Climate Summit» being held in conjunction; corporate sponsorship from big polluters plastered all over the venue; and a Presidency (Poland) that is beholden to the coal and fracking industry.

It is the alliance of this theory with corporate, short - term interests, and the desire of many citizens to make no sacrifices that undergird the current unsustainable global system.

Why do they lump the gospel of Jesus Christ with faving lower taxes (not caring for the poor), deny global warming (not being good stewards for the environment), refuse reasonable gun control (being common sense good citizens)?

Soft just war theory is characterized by seven key components: a strongly articulated horror of war; a strong presumption against war; a skepticism about government claims; the use of just war theory as a tool for citizen discernment and prophetic critique; a pattern of trusting the efficacy of international treaties, multilateral strategies and the perspectives of global peace and human rights groups and the international press; a quite stringent application of just war criteria; and a claim of common ground with Christian pacifists.

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

We are also raising her with Russian, which her father and grandparents speak, to increase her capacity for language development and help her become a global citizen.

As a global citizen concerned with infant health, I noted with great appreciation your statement on the occasion of the 2005 World Breastfeeding Week indicating UNICEF's continued commitment to the implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.

By talking with your child about current events and stories they see in the news or hear about at school, you can help your child to feel more confident in their understanding of the world and to become a better and more informed global citizen.

Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with an international research project called Global FinPrint, a Paul G. Allen initiative, to engage Chicagoland teens with a hands - on STEM application through citizen science.

Shedd is a collaborator with Global FinPrint, which recruits citizen scientists to help fill a critical information gap about the declining number of sharks and rays in the world's oceans.

SDN is a global network of researchers, journalists, activists, policy makers and citizens concerned with the future of democracy.

As a US citizen, I feel incredibly lucky to live in a society whose history is rooted in democratic ideals — a society that continues to benefit from the types of «elections with integrity» that the 2012 Report of the Global Commission on Elections, Democracy, and Security promotes.

Therefore, Ms Schivatcheva is probably correct in that most German citizens only heard about the programme to equip Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk airframe with German surveillance technology — thereby creating the Euro Hawk — when the project was scrapped in May 2013.

Mr Hoon said politicians should worry about people's «sense of disillusionment» about the union and act to make it more effective as a single market and as a global player, and ensure it interacted better with its citizens.

Dogara said that the welfare and working condition of teachers must also be upgraded to enable Nigerian citizens compete with the global world and produce citizens that can achieve development that the country seeks.

While this was a global banking crisis without precedent, we were hit especially hard because we have one of the most open economies in the world; with a financial services sector that had grown too big for the UK economy carrying liabilities that were around five times the size of it; UK citizens were privately indebted to the tune of 1.4 trillion pounds — among the highest in the developed world; and we had a housing market that went from spectacular boom to bust.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

He reserves his optimism for «Transformed World», a world of empowered citizens and enlightened corporations with global policies that actually do something about avoidable environmental disasters.

«The coupling of citizen science approaches with global collaborations among researchers will provide the scale of information required to address some of the complex ecological questions that remain unanswered,» Roy says, explaining what the future holds for research related to the harlequin ladybird.

«By generating in situ data with the help of citizen scientists, we envision the app serving supplementary data to scientists as they model mosquito population outbreaks,» says Rusty Low of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, «And equally important is the ability of the app to act as an enabling tool for citizen scientists who want to reduce disease risk in their communities.»

Born in England, with a childhood in India, he is a global citizen who lives Down Under.

It was an amazing weekend of world music in a time that it feels more relevant than ever to connect with global citizens through music.

A newly platinum Dianna adds a little edge to her girly Dolce & Gabbana number with her black booties and pompadour (also at N.Y.C.'s Global Citizens Festival).

We seek to inspire students and to provide them with the academic and social skills that will enable them to fulfill their human potential as responsible global citizens.

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Starting in June 2013 Edward Snowden released, with the aid of The Guardian and the Washington Post, cables which revealed a global surveillance programme by the National Security Agency, this included the surveillance of British and American citizens.

Shea was rewarded for his «dedication, commitment, and positive contributions,» with special emphasis on his commitment to preparing his students for post-high school success as global citizens.

10] But going by all the facts all citizens are not privileged to have globetrotting experience to get an international experience but everyone is well equipped with an inner self to have a global outlook and internationally acceptable attitude.

If we consider the skills of focusing on ourselves, tuning in to others, and understanding the larger world as a framework for our thinking, imagine how the conversation about screen time could shift away from the amount of time spent with devices and toward how students might use them to become more productive citizens in a networked and global society.

What can we do as educational and cultural workers, at this crucial moment in history, when corporate revenue expands as the job market shrinks, when there is such a callous disregard for human suffering and human life, when the indomitable human spirit gasps for air in an atmosphere of intellectual paralysis, social amnesia, and political quiescence, when the translucent hues of hope seem ever more ethereal, when thinking about the future seems anachronistic, when the concept of utopia has become irretrievably Disneyfied, when our social roles as citizens have become increasingly corporatized and instrumentalized in a world which hides necessity in the name of consumer desire, when media analyses of military invasions is just another infomercial for the US military industrial complex with its huge global arms industry, and when teachers and students alike wallow in absurdity, waiting for the junkyard of consumer life to vomit up yet another panacea for despair?

They are aware of the special role that Germany as a country and Germans as responsible «Global citizens «should play in the international community, with this given background.

This is mind The Widening Circle (TWC) was launched as a new organizing initiative with the explicit aim of catalyzing the Global Citizens Movement (GCM), a sustained campaign that will spread across regions and issues in «widening circles.»

Ron Israel, vice president of the global nonprofit Education Development Center, Inc., opened the Think Tank with his views on what it means to be a global citizen, and how schools can best develop this standard for their graduates.

She notes that global citizens must understand tolerance and be able to build relationships with diverse cultures and ethnicities.

Maarit shares a practical example for nurturing world citizens — a program her Finnish students, along with students from Germany and the UK, are participating in to explore ways to combat global climate change.

Global Education Magazine aims to disseminate creative, innovative and transversal educational experiences and ideas from the formal ambit, non formal and informal, to break with the existing positivist and technocratic paradigms of the past that reduce our students in passive citizens and a-critical consumers, because we have as educational horizon the freedom and the emancipation of human -LSB-...]

JCR: Doing a parallelism of those reflections, when we were attending the conference «Building a Global Citizens Movement», co-organised by DEEEP / CONCORD in collaboration with CIVICUS and GCAP, we talked about the future of world - society in so many ways.

Reimers and Chung co-authored (with Vidur Chopra, Julia Higdon, and E.B. O'Donnell) another new book, Empowering Global Citizens, which lays out a K — 12 curriculum for global citizenship education called The World CGlobal Citizens, which lays out a K — 12 curriculum for global citizenship education called The World Cglobal citizenship education called The World Course.

The school's Principal, Mrs Fran Reddan, said the long journey originally started as a vision to be an Australian school with an international outlook that prepared global citizens, and it had already been doing work to bring the importance of being internationally - minded to the school community.

By empowering her students with the use of social media, Kristin Ziemke connects them to a global audience and introduces them to the complex communication required to be effective digital citizens.

Global citizens around the world are turning to traditional communities to learn «El Buen Vivir», a life philosophy that implies to live in harmony with Nature and with the Other, eating well, loving well, working with joy, dancing, meditating and dreaming - because everything begins with a dream.