Sentences with phrase «local women and children»

To help provide comfort to local women and children spending the holiday season in shelters to escape domestic violence, Royal LePage brokerages in Quebec participated in a Sharing for Shelters fundraising campaign.

Three comedians entertained the crowd of 125, all clients, friends and colleagues of Wollner's, who came out to show their support for the cause — helping local women and children safely escape domestic violence.

«Once again, the giving and caring spirit of Manitobans came out to support our local women and children in desperate need,» says broker / owner Rolf Hitzer.

We're very proud to have raised $ 3,190, which will help Shelwin House serve local women and children who are seeking safety.»

She ran 42 km through the five boroughs of New York City and raised $ 1,500, which was donated to Sources - Community Resource Centres in White Rock, B.C. to help local women and children safely escape violence.

This was in part due to steady declines in coal prices, which have declined by more than 50 percent since 2011, as well as an instance where local women and children formed a human blockade around its La Francia coal mine.

All money received will be donated to local women and children.

The Women's Fund of Central Texas, a program of the Foundation, invests in local women and children through research, leadership and grantmaking.

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One tribal elder, Juma Gul, told the Times that «the Taliban escaped from the area last night and left us to ISIS with our women and children... there was no resistance by the Taliban against ISIS, and local tribes had no way to fight them anymore, so we just escaped.»

All proceeds benefitted a local homeless shelter for women and children, and my firm was spotlighted as an organizer.

Since his last re-election, Clarke has openly supported Republican causes on local and national right - wing media outlets; proudly trumpets on official Milwaukee County letterhead his 2013 award from the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leader suggested using women and children as human shields during Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's standoff with federal agents; accused Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele of having «penis envy» and being on heroin when crafting the county budget and needing to be drug tested; blasted Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers for being «soft on crime»; provided minimal protection for President Obama during his 2012 visit; employs former Scott Walker spokeswoman Fran McLaughlin, who was given criminal immunity over her role in Walker's mixing of campaign and county business; and created pro-gun public service announcements.

Four local transition homes for women and children starting over after experiencing domestic violence are beneficiaries of Royal LePage Coast Capital Realty's golf event held recently.

All funds raised support a local women's shelter, YWCA Lethbridge & District Harbour House, a 30 - bed crisis unit for women and children who are escaping abusive intimate partner relationships.

Proceeds raised stay local and directly benefit pediatric and neonatal programs at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.

I met the woman who ran a local shelter for abused women and children, most of them from poor homes.

A discussion group for mothers could foster personal relationships, with emphasis put on recruiting at the local public library and at the Women, Infants, and Children program office.

All my friends have left, It's a shame, as we were an active, supportive, faith - inspired community that went down the tubes with the disrespect shown towards women and children, financial scandal, crcxkdowns of authority, etc. from a local to the highest levels.

There were women who reconstructed, women who didn't, women who had chemo, women who had radiation, children and spouses of survivors, representatives from the local cancer association who met and learned from each other.

Nations such as India have grown increasingly aware of the dynamics of slavery, and local religious communities utilize local channels to raise awareness and provide protection for women and children.

Our Madagascan vanilla sustainability programme is making a real difference through agricultural best practice advice, empowering local women, crop security measures and ensuring education for farming community children.

Our sustainability programme in Madagascar is making a real difference through agricultural best practice advice, empowering local women, crop security measures and ensuring education for farming community children.

The coalition has been awarded three grants over the past five years: Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease and Pulmonary Disease Grant with the goal of increasing the number of policies and practices that promote and support breastfeeding - friendly environments; Business Case for Breastfeeding Grant to educate employers on how to comply with the Workplace Accommodations for Nursing Mothers Act and a Women Infants and Children (WIC) Local Agency Breastfeeding Special Project Grant.

I might add that, despite having a reasonably thriving internet business, and the fact that I wore both of my children (Stephen from birth through about 2 years and 4 months, Sophia from birth to over three years, Susan from birth through the present) all around town, I can still count on one hand the number of local sales I've made, and those were at La Leche League meetings, where the women had already been «exposed» to babywearing.

Tickets benefit local charities serving women and children in DuPage County.

They can also connect with all the local businesses and service providers in their area that cater to women and children.

In addition, you may wish to contact your State or County Health Department, your local Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinic, or one of the local La Leche League affiliates.

Become familiar with local breastfeeding resources (eg, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children clinics, lactation educators and consultants, lay support groups, and breast pump rental stations) so that patients can be referred appropriately.111 When specialized breastfeeding services are used, pediatricians need to clarify for patients their essential role as the infant's primary medical care taker.

A key reason behind the recent turnaround in breastfeeding among minority mothers in Illinois and particularly in the metropolitan Chicago area, state and local public health leaders say, is a common - sense peer counselor program launched in WIC (Women, Infants and Children program) clinics, which serve women who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.&rWomen, Infants and Children program) clinics, which serve women who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.&rwomen who are poor and nutritionally «at risk.»

The Maine Immunization Program, your doctor, your local Women Infant and Children (WIC) program, or local health clinic will have information about immunization schedules.

Other groups acknowledged included The Children's Guild, for their commitment to being positive role models for the children living in residential care at Five Acres and the La Canada Junior Women's Club, who, over the last 45 years has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local organizations, including FivChildren's Guild, for their commitment to being positive role models for the children living in residential care at Five Acres and the La Canada Junior Women's Club, who, over the last 45 years has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local organizations, including Fivchildren living in residential care at Five Acres and the La Canada Junior Women's Club, who, over the last 45 years has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for local organizations, including Five Acres.

For general questions, call your local Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, the breastfeeding coalition in your state, or La Leche League.

I was also lucky enough to become good friends with four wonderful women whom I met through various local antenatal / mother and baby groups, all of whom conceived their second child while breastfeeding their first.

«Donations and untargeted distribution of breast - milk substitutes and ready - to - use foods (RUFs), together with the distribution of globally marketed seed varieties, create dependence, discourage breastfeeding by interfering with women's options to decide the best manner in which to feed their children, erode local food culture, and undermine food sovereignty», he stresses.

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Local councils fund refuges, but it's unlikely that many, if any, of the women and children who spend time in them will have previously been residents in that area.

This meeting on 11 November succeeded in coalescing representatives of major lone parent and child poverty organisations — despite some reluctance on the part of one of the major charities because of political sympathies with Blair by leading individuals — national trade unions, women's officers, local government anti-poverty organisations and MPs.

I have been concerned for some time about the niqab and the burqa, but it was not until I took my children to the play area in my local park recently and saw a woman wearing a full burqa that it came home to me how inappropriate and, frankly, offensive it is for people to wear that apparel in the 21st century and especially in Britain.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

There had been fears over turnout as Storm Doris battered Stoke, bringing down a tree on a children's play area, cancelling trains to the city and leaving a local woman in her 60s in hospital.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

Men, women and children were butchered, often burnt alive, with the complicity of local police.

There are a few students, some young women who say they have never voted before but will for Corbyn, a disabled woman in a wheelchair, some local party activists, and a number of parents with children.

He said: «It id with heavy heart that we totally condemn the massacre of over 60 women and children in Shaforon, Kikem and Kodemti villages in Numan local government of Adamawa State on November 19, 2017.

This particular dastardly act is perpetrated by the Bachama ethnic militia in Numan Local Government against the defenceless and unarmed women and children.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

«I look forward to continuing my efforts to save our children's education from the mismanaged roll - out of the Common Core curriculum, advocate for women's equality and make smart investments to create good local jobs in Dutchess and Putnam counties.»

Through the financial literacy tool, users can learn about their eligibility and dollar amounts for up to 18 federal, state and local benefits with programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Women, Infants and Children (WIC), or ways to save on utility bills.

Through the agreement, NHRMC's Betty H. Cameron Women's and Children's Hospital and N.C. Children's Hospital will be able to more easily collaborate on the care of local pediatric patients.

It supports a variety of social and environmental projects large and small (building schools, supporting women and children, and even sponsoring a local football team).

A room full of local children, women and grandmothers look on in mild amusement.