Sentences with phrase «life for rural communities»

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The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.
And there's growing evidence that when mining debris and waste gets into water supplies, the toxic metals can have dire health impacts for the people and mostly rural communities living nearby.
«This deal is good news for B.C. midwives and a host of British Columbians living in rural and northern communities.
The brand is named for a rural community in the Mojave Desert where friends lived and where they drew inspiration for their products.
Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.
Secondly it must help us campaign for a fundamental change in attitude to make it socially unacceptable to object to rural development that allows local people to live and work in the communities they grow up in.
Voted for by the public across five categories, they applaud those who routinely go the extra mile for their community and help to promote rural life.
Voted for by the public, they recognise and honour those who routinely go the extra mile for their community and help to promote rural life.
In a study, the share of college graduates — often referred to as human capital — and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.
Catherine Coleman Flowers is founder of the Alabama Center for Rural Enterprise Community Development Corporation (ACRE), a non-profit organization that trains and mobilizes citizens to sustainably improve quality of life to address the root causes of poverty.
The study, the first to examine outpatient quality of care between urban and rural communities, counters existing research, which suggested gaps in care for those living in rural areas.
If we could help apply the results from this research to develop effective community - based beehive fence deterrent systems for rural Asian farmers living with elephants, we could have a significant impact on the survival of the Asian elephant species.»
Educating primary care providers, including those in rural communities, would be a big step toward improving the quality of life for patients.
For those of you who are new here, I'm Amy and I live in a small, rural community on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona with my husband, two kids, and our family pets.
In a busy, hectic society when we have little time available to go out socially, if we live in a rural area with lack of access to a visible gay community and find it difficult to decipher who's gay versus straight when out on the town, social media makes for a great leveraging tool to meet other single gay men.
It only takes a few seconds to join the site and start searching the online community for equestrians, country sports lovers, farmers, farriers, vets, and all types of rural romantics living in your area.
Love Horse ® is an online community for those who live, work, or play in the countryside: Equestrian singles, horse & country sports lovers, farmers, farriers, vets and all rural romantics can find countryside love and friendship here in the original Love Horse ®.
However, it's not the ideal lesbian dating app for women who live in rural communities, or for those who live in some big cities where the app isn't supported yet.
Amish Online Dating Login What made Charlotte Allison (pictured), 18, swap her pampered life with her parents for six weeks living in a rural Amish community in Middlefield, Ohio?
Set in a rural community, the film is driven by the young heroine Chris and her intense passion for life, for the unsettling Ewan and for the unforgiving land.»
In Ghana, Acqua for Life expanded from rural communities into urban areas in 2013, installing mechanized boreholes to provide water to residents of the Aboabo slum, in Ghana's second biggest city of Kumasi.
The program plans to send top journalism graduates to a rural community where they will live and teach journalism workshops and classes to high schoolers for a year.
These shifting demographics pose unique challenges for rural and suburban schools, many of which are unaccustomed to educating English learners and recent immigrants — or indeed to living in diverse communities.
And as David Miller notes in his 2014 eLearning article Online Learning Advantages: Why Online Learning Offers Plenty of Incentives, besides physical college campuses often feeling too far and few between, living in a rural community «can be even more difficult for students to find experts in the fields they're interested in».
The irony is that for most voters — those living in suburban and rural communities with charter enrollment far below the current cap — the vote is inconsequential.
Our goal is to inform the national body of work on rural education and explore its implications for increasing educational attainment and economic competitiveness of Idahoans and other Americans who live and work in rural communities.
Recruiting teachers who live elsewhere to work in rural communities can be difficult, but there are some promising options for increasing the rural talent pool.
«Every student deserves the opportunity to receive an education that prepares them for future success, whether they live in an urban, suburban, or rural community,» said Gentzel.
Zachary Herrnstadt is government relations associate for the Wisconsin Farmers Union, a member - driven organization committed to enhancing the quality of life for family farmers, rural communities and all citizens through educational opportunities, cooperative endeavors and civic engagement.
Texas rural districts are challenged to attract and retain educators in communities that might be perceived as less desirable places to live for teachers newly entering the profession.
For those living in the rural communities outside of Montreal, «road» doesn't always mean asphalt, and frozen rivers double as seasonal, state - maintained ice bridges.
I like rural settings for their access to nature and reflective opportunities, but I don't think I would adjust well to living in a small town because I want the opportunity for culture that larger communities offer.
Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library — Hoopa, CA Year: 2007 Amount: $ 10,000 Grant: National Award for Library Service As California's only joint county - tribal library on an Indian reservation, the Kim Yerton Branch of the Humboldt County Library has become a center for the rural community of Hoopa Valley, connecting thousands of residents of all ages with Native American reading materials, computer access and the prospect of a better life through literacy.
In Painters Mill, Ohio, which is a rural farming community, the Amish and «English» have lived side by side for over two centuries.
There's a total expenditure of $ 29.5 million starting in 2018 for Digital Literacy Exchange programs that teach basic digital skills, including internet safety to low - income Canadians, seniors and those living in northern and rural communities.
The HRSA offers limited scholarship and grant opportunities, but has several programs that feature low - interest loans and some loan forgiveness programs for doctors and nurses, especially those willing to live and work in underserved rural and urban communities.
If you're in search of a quiet place to call home that still offers many of the conveniences of urban living, the mid-size rural community of Hastings may be just what you're looking for.
Many more are left to fend for themselves and lead miserable lives in our rural and urban communities.
While living in rural Illinios, Monica noticed the stark lack of resources available for community cats and decided to do something about it.
Bordering Manuel Antonio National Park is rural Costa Rica, where communities subsist on agriculture and live as they have for hundreds of years.
Villa Malaathina is located off a quiet country lane in the rural community of Umalas, well known for its beautiful rice paddies and traditional way of life.
Villa Malaathina is located off a quiet lane in the rural community of Umalas in Bali, known for its beautiful rice paddies and traditional way of life.
From her earliest series, for which she responded to the deteriorating urban environments of New York and New Jersey in the 1970s, to her later works, which intertwine with oral history to excavate African American social life in rural communities of the American Southeast, Buchanan undertook a deep, empirically driven study of architecture in visual art.
For Village Queens, German photographer Eric Schuett tracks down and captures the last remaining women living in rural communities throughout Germany and into Alsace who still adhere to the traditional costuming that once dressed the majority of the village population.
Womersley, along maintaining with blogs on sustainable living and his small farm, sends his students out into rural Maine communities to conduct energy audits and help cut energy bills for struggling families and retirees.
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Best known as a gateway to the Oregon Caves National Monument, it is described by its chamber of commerce as «the commercial, service, and cultural center for a rural community of small farms, woodlots, crafts people, and families just living apart from the crowds.
That if we take seriously the threat of forest fires made worse by climate change, we can save lives and livelihoods for rural and agricultural communities that we are just not doing enough to protect right now.
Access to clean solar energy impacts education, health, and quality of life for people living in poverty in rural communities.
Living under the constant threat of assassination, Francisco Pineda was awarded the Goldman Prize in 2011 for courageously leading a citizens» movement that stopped a gold mine owned by OceanaGold (formerly Pacific Rim) from destroying El Salvador's dwindling water resources and the livelihoods of rural communities throughout the country.
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