Sentences with phrase «into humanitarian work»

To start off, why don't you tell us a little about what drew you into humanitarian work in the first place and how you became associated with World Vision?

The layout of the spaces we inhabit, from schools to offices to homes, influences the way people live, so Cary has spent most of his career expanding his design practice into humanitarian work.

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It maintains a force of 50,000 or so missionaries who work without pay, but need supporting infrastructure, and the church is moving into humanitarian efforts in a big way.

Heck — my father was knighted into the Order of St. John as recognition for a lifetime of humanitarian work and it is a protestant order!

Humanitarian works are fine, but beware of the preachers who come into your community claiming to know more than you about something they call GOD.

«If true, to use unwitting aid workers on behalf of an intelligence operation, people who genuinely do humanitarian work, to turn their efforts into intel collection is unacceptable,» Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the House Intelligence Committee told The Intercept at the time.

On the other hand, many of us who are called into ministry or humanitarian work are tempted to believe the lie that our work is more important than that of others.

«In the longer term we must push the EU into rebuilding a scheme to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean — we shouldn't have to rely on the heroic work of charities to undertake this basic humanitarian task.

Together with the Foundation's Directors, Advisory Board and staff, Rod pursues the goal of turning science fiction into science fact by providing critical support to leading - edge organizations around the world working in the areas of science and technology, the environment, education and humanitarian advances.

They include Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson, who are using their skills and intellect to turn oil rigs into coral reefs; Nate Parker, the activist filmmaker, writer, humanitarian and director of The Birth of a Nation; Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity Water, whose projects are delivering clean water to over 6 million people; Anthony D. Romero, the executive director of the ACLU, who has dedicated his life to protecting the liberties of Americans; Louise Psihoyos, the award - winning filmmaker and executive director of the Oceanic Preservation Society; Jennifer Jacquet, an environmental social scientist who focuses on large - scale cooperation dilemmas and is the author of «Is Shame Necessary»; Brent Stapelkamp, whose work promotes ways to mitigate the conflict between lions and livestock owners and who is the last researcher to have tracked famed Cecil the Lion; Fabio Zaffagnini, creator of Rockin» 1000, co-founder of Trail Me Up, and an expert in crowd funding and social innovation; Alan Eustace, who worked with the StratEx team responsible for the highest exit altitude skydive; Renaud Laplanche, founder and CEO of the Lending Club — the world's largest online credit marketplace working to make loans more affordable and returns more solid; the Suskind Family, who developed the «affinity therapy» that's showing broad success in addressing the core social communication deficits of autism; Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal, whose goal is to flip supply and demand for organ transplants and build the country's first central organ donor registry, creating more culturally relevant ways for people to share their donor wishes; Adam Foss, founder of SCDAO, a reading project designed to bridge the achievement gap of area elementary school students, Hilde Kate Lysiak (age 9) and sister Isabel Rose (age 12), Publishers of the Orange Street News that has received widespread acclaim for its reporting, and Max Kenner, the man responsible for the Bard Prison Initiative which enrolls incarcerated individuals in academic programs culminating ultimately in college degrees.

Featuring approximately 60 works and four essays that delve into artists» engagements with collage in the first half of the twentieth century, Motherwell's early career with patron Peggy Guggenheim, underlying humanitarian themes during World War II and the artist's materials, Early Collages provides a vital reassessment of Motherwell's work in the collage medium.

In Design Like You Give a Damn, Sinclair sketches an engaging image of himself as a young architect working as a «CAD monkey» in NY, stumbling into the world of humanitarian aide, and then managing to catalyze Architecture for Humanity on a shoestring.

To tackle the root causes of these pressing chal - lenges, the EU is working to implement a long term strategy, taking into ac - count humanitarian aid, The guidelines set out the applicable legislation on how EU funds should be treated when it comes to tax avoidance and non - cooperative jurisdictions.