Sentences with phrase «in rural access»

[9] Additionally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 2015 «Digital India» campaign helped provide universal internet access to those in rural access, with the overarching goal of empowering citizens with digital resources.

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A subsidiary of NGP, Veriown, is transforming the way people in rural India access the modern power grid.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

Besides, for the hundreds of millions of rural peasants who have already migrated to cities — supplying factories with an endless supply of cheap labour — life in cities like Shanghai, Beijing or Shenzhen means being treated like second - class citizens, since their access to social services and education for their children is tightly limited.

Seven in 10 of the world's poor live in remote or rural areas, where access to medical services is sharply limited or not available at all: 5 billion people can't reach or afford essential surgical care, from emergency caesarian sections to cancer surgery.

Brazilians have increasing purchasing power, but many live in underserved or rural areas where they don't have access to the goods they want.

Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

Project Loon in particular seems to have hatched from a genuine desire to find new ways of providing Internet access to rural areas.

According to Parikh, 10 % of the world's population live in these rural areas — found in certain regions in Africa and India, among others — and are unable to access the web.

The service could be especially useful for those living in rural areas where broadband access is currently limited and allegedly can provide «fiber - like speeds.»

When it comes to access, our government launched a $ 500 million program, Connect to Innovate, and it's designed to provide fibre to the institutes in rural and remote communities.

«Mortgage insurance allows Canadians across the country, in rural areas and big cities, to have the same opportunities to access home ownership and at the same interest rates as people who can afford to put down a 25 % down payment,» says Pierre Serré, chief financial officer of CMHC.

Such as the fact that as of 2010, about half of rural households in America did not have internet access at home.

Nimmo is among the many rural folk, even in developed countries, that can't get broadband access.

The FCC said the technology «holds promise to expand Internet access in remote and rural areas across the country.»

There are millions of people who don't have access, either because they can't afford a tech device with internet capability or they live in a region that's too rural for capable Wi - Fi.

Since they're on wheels, they can easily be transported and deployed in rural areas without access to medical services.

Many people living in rural, low - income communities, or on tribal lands have no access to care at all.

And so there is the $ 225 - million plan to extend broadband access across Canada, particularly in rural communities.

As of June 2013, there are 59.6 million users in Rural India who have accessed internet at least once in their lives.

«Today's proposal will help consumers in rural or underserved areas access the mortgage credit they need, while still maintaining these important new consumer protections.»

Lower marginal rates won't create opportunity in impoverished rural towns, but universal access to broadband would.

That's why Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade has taken an innovative step toward helping the entrepreneurial talent in the state's rural areas get access to early - stage funding.

He is also a Director of Cameco, one of the world's largest uranium producers and Chairman of the charitable organization Educating Girls of Rural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educaRural China Foundation, which works to transform the lives of women and communities in rural areas of western China by providing access to educarural areas of western China by providing access to education.

Carlsbad's Viasat is tapping the larger footprint of its new ViaSat - 2 broadband satellite to deliver Internet access to underserved rural towns in Mexico via Wi - Fi hotspots.

After Jaime highlighted loss of health care access by rural Pacific County residents, Premera announces new contract for health care coverage in Astoria

«We will continue to expand on our partnerships and infrastructure to deliver access to the widest selection of the best products from around the world to consumers,» Zhang said in a statement, «whether they live in Beijing or a rural village in the farthest edges of the country.»

«Proposed legislation seeks to redirect investments to low income and rural communities and would make it tougher for developers to access funds in big cities such as Miami.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

With its $ 4.6 billion investment in Suning Commerce Group last year, Alibaba also gained access to a vast network of store fronts and warehouses in smaller cities and rural areas.

USAID also estimated that fewer than half of Zambians living in rural locations had access to the water they needed for daily tasks.

In Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks accesIn Rwanda and Burundi, more than one in four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks accesin four rural residents have no access to an improved water source; in Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks accesin Kenya, nearly half the rural population lacks access.

We ship right to your door so even folks in rural areas can have access.

The Government recognises the original intention of the location rules was to create a suitable geographic spread of pharmacies to ensure dependable and timely access to Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines, including in rural and remote regions.

I live in rural South Texas, where I have access to many wild chiltepin plants for harvesting.

Farmer Loans The farmers we work with are in rural areas where credit is hard to access.

Emily's goal is to provide daily access to clean drinking water for schools and villagers in rural Zambia.

... though [Rural Press and Bridge] had the necessary market power and the necessary purpose, they had not taken advantage of their power in the Murray Bridge regional newspaper market but rather had taken advantage of their access to a printing press in Murray Bridge and to the necessary administrative and professional structure to publish a competing newspaper.

We need to ensure that farmers and farmer groups are able to access rural financial packages so that they can invest in food loss reduction.

Q: Dave, I live in rural South Texas, where I have access to many wild chiltepin plants for harvesting.

Fistula is a condition resulting from prolonged, obstructed labor; it is typically due to lack of timely access to medical care (it's most prevalent in rural Africa and parts of Asia) and usually results in a stillborn child and a hole in the tissue of the bladder and / or rectum (due to prolonged pressure from the baby) that results in the uncontrollable passage of urine and / or feces.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

They will provide services on a contract basis to help establish IMH Endorsement ® across all areas in Oregon, and to equalize access to the Endorsement ® process for rural providers from multiple disciplines in the Infant Mental Health Field.

Making your own formula doesn't sound appealing to me, but others may have better access to goat milk (maybe in rural areas).

We donated our tommee tippee cups to support children and deprived families in rural communities in Moldova — where they still use the village well to access drinking water.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

We are hoping this year to spread out to more rural communities across the state that don't get as much access to training opportunities, while still having a presence in the metro areas.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

According to Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign, there are 23.5 million Americans — including 6.5 million children — who live in rural and urban areas across the country who lack access to convenient and affordable nutritious foods known as «food deserts.»