Sentences with phrase «led lives of poverty»

The Waldenses were in the tradition of earlier twelfth - century leaders, such as Peter of Bruys and Arnold of Brescia, who led a life of poverty, denounced the clergy for unworthy luxury and grasping for political power, and condemned many of the current customs of the Church.

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Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poLiving Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poliving in poverty.

Innovation and Activities Living Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poLiving Goods seeks to reinvent how the poor access vital goods and services, leading to significant gains in the health and wealth of families living in poliving in poverty.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

He has led the One Campaign, which seeks additional spending to alleviate global poverty, and worked with Bob Geldof to arrange Live 8, the concurrent benefit concerts in all of the countries of the Group of Eight, or G8 (the world's eight largest economies).

Poverty and wealth can then become the venue in which redemption once accepted leads to a working out of salvation for both the giver of the cloak and the recipient, done within the life of grace.

These girls lead real lives, lives of pain, abuse, poverty, children, abortion and drugs.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

But the fact that technological and social revolutions which did have the potential and promise of producing a world community with richer and filler human life for all humanity, resulted in the intensification of mass poverty, social oppression, war and ecological destruction, have led many to consider self - sufficient Secular Humanism as inadequate to understand or deal with the tragic dimensions of the human selfhood and social existence.

In India's «ten percent economy» as economist C.T. Kurien calls it, 40 to 50 percent of people are living below the poverty line; and the present pattern of development through globalization with economic growth as the only criterion will lead to large - scale cuts in welfare measures and to the capital - intensive industries under the auspices of the multi-national corporations and consequently to more poverty and unemployment as it happened in Latin America.

Nevertheless, those who were most admired in Christendom were the saints, most of whom led lives of voluntary poverty.

It details Engh's amazing rise from Depression - era poverty on the shores of Eastern Maryland to confront a series of life - changing events that ultimately led him to creating the National Alliance for Youth Sports, which has been the nation's leading advocate for positive and safe sports for children for more than 30 years.

The UK's leading fuel poverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special papoverty charity National Energy Action (NEA), which is this week launching its Warm Homes Campaign with energy company E.ON, will be publishing a report illustrating «The Many Faces of Fuel Poverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special paPoverty», showing the range of people that are impacted by living in cold homes, and offering strong practical information at a community and neighbourhood level on where households can get advice and help, including how to access grants for free home insulation, reduced energy tariffs and special payments.

The argument that we need to make our welfare state less generous leads us to an end - point of a system which provides no security, which pays far too little to live on, which traps people in poverty, and which allows costly problems to spiral out of control.

The government needs to spend # 1.7 billion more every year to lift children out of poverty and give them a better start in life, a leading campaigning group has claimed.

Instead of the government's welfare reforms enabling them to have a decent standard of living and empowering them to lead fulfilling independent lives, what we have seen in the past few years has been the continual erosion of support for disabled people, who are already disproportionately likely to live in poverty.

Looking through the rest of the poll, the Conservatives & Theresa May have a lead over Labour & Jeremy Corbyn on almost every economic measure YouGov asked about (36 on cutting the deficit, 32 points on managing the economy, 15 on providing jobs, 11 on keeping prices down, 11 on improving living standards, 6 on getting people on the housing ladder), the only exception was reducing the number of people in poverty, where Corbyn & Labour had a 7 point lead.

«The Poverty Summit will bring together a wide cross-section of community leaders to discuss ongoing challenges and explore ways to help residents overcome those challenges and lead healthy, productive lives in Erie County.»

Income from forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.

Despite a lack of symptoms, more than half of the children experienced stunted growth in the first two years of life, leading to irreversible damage and contributing to poor cognitive development, poor educational performance and reduced earning potential in adulthood, trapping individuals in a lifetime of poverty.

In South Asia, a region of deep poverty where one - fifth of the world's people live, new research suggests that by the end of this century climate change could lead to summer heat waves with levels of heat and humidity that exceed what humans can survive without protection.

The results suggest that a 10 % increase in remittances as share of gross domestic product (GDP) will lead to a 1.2 % decline in the number of people living on less than US$ 1.25 per day, 2.4 % decline in the depth of poverty, 3.1 % decline in the number of people living in extreme poverty and 1.5 % decline in inequality.

For women, caring for children and families throughout their life often leads to lower pensions, high levels of poverty and lack of health resources in later life.

Viruses Bacteria Parasites Mold and fungus Nutritional deficiencies and excesses Amino acid imbalances Hormone imbalances Poor diet Lack of exercise Poor sleep Stress / anxiety / depression Allergies EMFs Too much sun Not enough sun Not enough germs Damaged immune system Depleted adrenals High blood pressure High cholesterol Poor digestion Genetic glitches Radiation Prescription drugs Bad dental care Bad surgery Misaligned skeleton, muscles etc Past trauma — physical, mental, emotional Past lives Misaligned stars Bad numbers Karma Poverty Bad water Depleted soil Environmental toxins Pesticides Fake fragrances Cleaning products Fiberboard Carpets Drywall Bad indoor air Smog Car exhaust Cigarette smoke Cosmetics Body care products Plastics Lead Mercury Industrial runoff Fracking

Ever since learning more about it and more about the working and life conditions of women and families in poverty both in the US and abroad, it has led to her asking, «other than posting articles on social media that has convicted me, what can I tangibly do?»

A multi-partner initiative led by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) that supports climate resilience, food security, poverty alleviation and sustainable management of living aquatic resources in coastal communities, especially in small island developing states.

Evan Lewis the founder of Hope, the organisation behind Share a Pencil Day, said: «Education is the single most important thing a child can have to lift themselves and their families out of poverty and lead a better life.

«What we need is a credible, constructive and collegiate school improvement strategy and a serious government - led effort to reduce inequality and the number of children living in poverty.»

As an independent 501 (c) 3 and private school management organization, our mission is to develop outstanding Catholic elementary schools that provide low - income students with the academic preparation, values and skills they need to break the cycle of poverty and lead fulfilling, productive lives.

A partnership led by Grand Challenges Canada, Saving Brains seeks to improve outcomes for children living in poverty through interventions that nurture and protect early brain development in the first 1,000 days of a child's life.

The approach accommodates the sometimes chaotic, disrupted lives children in homes of poverty lead, allowing them to pick up learning after a lapse in attendance, he said.

Embracing Micheaux's stubbornly positive and positively stubborn vision will lead to better schools and better lives for all children, and help our poorest kids avoid the brutality of poverty in their adulthoods.

With 1 out of 4 living in poverty — far more than any other industrialized country (nearly double what it was 30 years ago); a more tattered safety net — more who are homeless, without health care, and without food security; a more segregated and inequitable system of public education, in which the top schools spend 10 times more than the lowest spending; we nonetheless have a defense budget larger than that of the next 20 countries combined and greater disparities in wealth than any other leading country.

A recent U.S. Department of Education study on school spending reported that in central cities - where greater numbers of students live in poverty and it costs more to educate them than non-poor students - schools must spend a greater portion of limited funds on instruction and less on repairing buildings or buying / repairing equipment, which has led to often - dangerous infrastructure conditions.

With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, that believes that to lift any people out of poverty they must be provided with proper tools so that they will be able to lead a healthier life and live a fulfilling life.

Progressive projects — with youth of color in the lead — are demanding living wage work, an end to handouts of public lands and public dollars that privilege the wealthy few, and a city that protects all of its residents from the perils of poverty, eviction, criminalization, deportation and violence.

Each educator I observed had previously led a high - performing or rapidly improving school serving substantial populations of students of color and students living in poverty.

In the Race to the Top, the US leads in one area only, child poverty, with 22 % of our children living below the poverty level.

Our efforts have led to the narrowing of the opportunity gap and increased educational equity for students living in high - poverty communities.

Attorney James Hall, president of the Milwaukee chapter of the NAACP, rattled off a host of statistics about Milwaukee's low ranking on a number of quality - of - life metrics, from the recent finding by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that Wisconsin is the worst state in the nation for African American children, to our sky - high levels of mass incarceration of black men, our nation - leading racial gap in student achievement, our high poverty rate and geographic segregation.

Pushing off your business to pursue something more «fulfilling» can lead you down the path of the Bohemians — a path of life that may seem like fun and frivolity at first, but which ultimately leads to poverty, sickness, and death.

A number of factors, including predatory lending practices, increases in the cost of living, shrinking incomes, and the erosion of the safety net for Americans, have all led to an increase in poverty and indebtedness among us.

In 2012 it conducted its second Injured Workers Poverty Survey, led by York University's Bonnie Heath, to document real - life financial, social and health impacts of work injury and dealing with the Compensation Board.

Poverty and related social determinants of health can lead to adverse health outcomes in childhood and across the life course, negatively affecting physical health, socioemotional development, and educational achievement.

Children are more likely to have trusting relationships with caregivers who are consistent and nurturing, which leads to a number of positive developmental outcomes.7 Moreover, the research suggests that positive and consistent caregiving has the potential to compensate for factors that have a deleterious impact on children, such as poverty and its associated risk factors.8 In other words, children have much better outcomes if their family lives are stable, despite the overwhelming influence of poverty and associated risk factors.

During WAVE's years of research we have discovered that the same conditions that lead to violence and antisocial behaviour also lead to many other blights on lives including poor mental and physical health, all sorts of addictions, low educational and employment achievements, welfare dependency, poverty and homelessness.