Sentences with phrase «impoverished areas»

That said, there certainly are instances of teachers in impoverished areas bringing nutritious food into their classrooms to feed hungry students, often paying for this food out of their own pocket.

Nearly 100 percent of our scholars qualify for free or reduced lunch and live in some of the most impoverished areas of these two urban centers.

They're not unemployed, they don't come from impoverished areas, they're very likely to work in the public sector with its enhanced sense of transferred personal virtue.

We — as minorities — can also take responsibility to change this problem by staying in school and voting into our government people who will fund impoverished areas.

Those who live in impoverished areas: Home owners who lived in neighborhoods with a high poverty rate tended to show more desire to move.

Kids from impoverished areas, students with special needs, and those who lack stability in the home are all doomed to failure as are the teachers evaluated by such criteria.

So sad women in Haiti and other impoverished areas just have no choice.

He cited the Oil Delta region in Nigeria, South Sudan as some of the most impoverished areas in Nigeria and Sudan despite being rich in oil wealth.

Susan Brownlee of the Grable Foundation is thrilled with her Pittsburgh experiment: She reached more than 500 students, and believes that, for many of them, yoga provided relief from the tensions of living in impoverished areas with high crime.

It simmers down in more impoverished areas of the large map, each with their own distinct feel and theme.

Uninsured driving accidents are very common on the other side of the border, particularly in impoverished areas where people can't afford to pay for insurance.

Last year, ILUMÉXICO and its partners across sectors made a CGI Commitment to Action to install 1,500 solar systems for households and communities, and 22 for schools, in five rural impoverished areas of Mexico by mid-2016.

Instead it creates what I called «a nationwide patchwork of «haves» and «have - nots,»» in which the kids who most need healthful school food — the ones living in economically impoverished areas — may be least able to round up private money to help pay for it.

While the performance of the district's middle schools tended to break along familiar lines — with the top schools filled with high levels of white students in less impoverished areas — the CORE data for high schools reveal a different story in several key categories.

WHAT: One year after the earthquake in Haiti devastated millions of lives, 200 Boise volunteers will spend the afternoon assembling 100,000 MannaPack ™ Potato meals to send to malnourished children in Haiti and other impoverished areas around the globe.

For Mother's Day, how about an eco-chic gift that also helps women in impoverished areas avoid or overcome slavery?

An inveterate inventor who couldn't stop playing with ideas if he tried, he's come up with some fascinating tools that might change the way people live in impoverished areas across the globe.

Go to a classroom in a highly impoverished area of New York City.

The historically impoverished area would be among the first to see extensive rezonings and new construction should the de Blasio proposals come to fruition.

The fact that moringa grows rapidly and easily makes it especially appealing for impoverished areas, and it's been used successfully for boosting nutritional intake in Malawi, Senegal, and India.

Brownfield sites in impoverished areas became playgrounds for children who built dens and odd structures from junk and waste materials left behind.

A nonprofit organization helps children in the Mumbai slums and other impoverished areas improve their futures by training them to use computers.

Although famous for its resort areas, the rural New England state has many impoverished areas, and school officials have struggled to persuade students...

Dr. Darryn Knobel was troubled by the high incidence of canine rabies in certain impoverished areas in his country.

In addition to transporting sick, abandoned, and injured dogs into rescue, they help coordinate wellness and spay / neuter clinics that help family pets and homeless dogs in impoverished areas get the care they need and deserve.

I like the fact that COTAP's certified forestry projects are located in very impoverished areas where the economic opportunities they create are changing lives for some of the poorest communities in the world.

APPROACH: Ilumexico commits to install and distribute 1,500 solar systems for households and 22 solar systems for schools in rural impoverished areas over an 18 - month period.

The loss of money would be crippling to community health centers, which often serve impoverished areas and by law must take all comers, no matter their ability to pay.

Given the continued contentiousness of the eminent domain issue, as lawmakers try to balance private property rights on the one hand and municipalities» need to transform impoverished areas on the other, REALTORS ® are well positioned to be the voice of workable solutions.

Urban kids from impoverished areas come to Kindergarten with a vocabulary deficit.

It likely comes as no surprise that I teach in one of the most impoverished areas of the city which, as a new report from the Independent Budget Office documents, experiences higher teacher turnover than wealthier neighborhoods.

Located in impoverished areas with high infant mortality rates and few health care care providers, health centers offer a full range of medical services, including dentistry and mental health and substance abuse treatment, to more than 24 million patients.

The second school was set in a more impoverished area in Reggio, occupying a clean yet run - down building with limited facilities and resources.

FLORIDA — The Town Board in this Montgomery County community unanimously approved a resolution Monday in support of a $ 250 million casino proposal for a site near downtown Amsterdam, a plan that politicians and county officials contend will turn around the economically impoverished area.

The plaintiffs argued that the schools — and their students — suffered disproportionately because many of their teachers lacked seniority, a problem particularly acute in impoverished areas where turnover is high.

The creative writing schools fund will be delivered to children between eight and 12 and will focus particularly on children from impoverished areas, with the aim of easing the transition from primary to secondary education.

We also have our rural - area veterinary services program, where we go on Indian reservations and to other impoverished areas to provide animal care and services for people who don't have the resources or the regions that don't have veterinary assets.

Longoria shared the example of a lingerie company in Venezuela that outsources the finishing touches on pieces, such as beading and embroidery, to women in impoverished areas.

The people that are there deserve better,» Lynn Paulsen said, speaking of the impoverished area of San Francisco right next to Twitter's headquarters.

By LAURA LOREK Publisher of Silicon Hills News In remote and impoverished areas of the world, teaching children science, technology, engineering, and math, or STEM skills can involve a lot of expensive resources.

He and his family live in Allendale, SC, one of the most impoverished areas in the country.

They see their pastor struggle with addiction after an injury instead of firing him they all - around him helping him overcome, they can start a sizable food bank in an impoverished area that didn't have one.

(In light of recent conversations here on the blog, I found it interesting that the authors are very much in favor of Westerners taking short - term trips to impoverished areas of the world.)

«Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh fruit, vegetables and other healthful whole foods, usually found in impoverished areas,» the USDA says.