Sentences with phrase «issues of poverty around»

Founded by filmmaker Paul Haggis, Artists for Peace and Justice (APJ) is a non-profit organization that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty around the world.

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While Bread & Wine is a memoir that focuses on life around the table, Eat With Joy delves more deeply and directly into issues related to the theology of eating, touching on everything from food anxiety and eating disorders, to poverty, to obesity, to just and sustainable eating, to hospitality, to mindfulness, to communion.

Their buildings can serve as food distribution centers, job training centers, or provide counseling around domestic violence issues that often skyrocket with the stresses of poverty.

Two best political books I read this were «Nixonland» by Rich Perlstein (which covers the eclipse of American liberalism and rise of conservatism between 1964 - 1972) and «The Persistence of Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the Poverty» by Charles Karelis, which is short, witty and will change the way that you think about the whole debate around welfare and poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the poverty issues (get»em on Amazon if they aren't in the shops).

It will allow debate and discussion around issues such as the implementation of the new fuel poverty strategy in England which is taking effect from 2015, how we can reduce the health impacts of fuel poverty and will explore the effect of the changes to welfare reform.

On the education reformer front, I realize that a charter leader does not want to be distracted by the complicated messy political issues around how to reduce poverty but I don't know how they can continue to ignore the obvious impacts of poverty.

March / April 2018: Urban, Suburban, Rural, and Frontier — This issue will shine a light on various types of school communities, providing strategies for universal challenges such as parent engagement, afterschool and summer learning, technology and broadband connectivity, teacher recruiting and retention, poverty, and wrap - around services.

In Topeka and other school districts around the country, «our mindset is beginning to change regarding how to teach children with trauma issues,» says Anderson, who helped spearhead trauma - informed initiatives as superintendent in Jennings, Missouri, a 3,000 - student, high - poverty community outside of St. Louis.

When I look around at the world, I see a lot of issues facing our communities and society — issues like poverty, terrorism, illicit drugs and depression.

A lot of that resolves around the extra needs of children coming from poverty and all the social issues that go with that.

Short clips examine her personal philosophy, leadership of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, and her ability to empower rural women to mobilize around Kenya's issues of dwindling natural resources, widespread poverty and oppressive government practices.

His work focuses on political and social issues such as poverty, race, and consumer culture, examining the value, that which is inherent and that which we bestow, of the objects around us.

It would be cool to see a wide collection of maps covering many different issues, not just climate and food production, but, for instance, poverty and wealth, arms production and war, clothing production and leisure time, education levels, consumption, production, health, population growth and decline, movement of immigrants, human rights, animal populations, housing ownership, housing starts, anything basically which can be measured in a visual map... not just for the US but as global maps, collected on pages where you could drag them around to sit on top of each other and try and make sense of the various impacts...

And whether it was climate, genocide, or poverty, one of the things that was true of young organizers across the board was that they didn't want to organize around those issues while stuck in issue boxes.

Beyond our governments, the issues around Aboriginal women, violence and poverty are issues for all of us to be concerned about.

I made that an important part of the lesson I do with my students and that I included in my book by using materials found at The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough, including ones pointing out that self - control issues don't cause poverty — it is more likely to be the other other way around.

A lack of self - control is often one of the charges leveled at low - income adults and kids, despite overwhelming research finding that poverty causes (not the other way around) what some would consider self - control issues but, which, might in fact be logical choices (see The Best Resources Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn't Enough).

Poverty, disadvantage, unemployment, racism, lack of housing / overcrowding, transgenerational trauma and issues around incarceration contribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander suicides.

And wrapped around and under everything we do, we must seek to address the causes of ill - health and health inequality — the social determinants of health, and in particular issues relating to income, welfare and poverty.