Sentences with phrase «many displaced persons»

For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Giustra's current priority is to provide housing for displaced people who are essentially stuck in Greece.

That can be a real problem if a hurricane or other natural event displaces people.

While governments struggle with the best way to accommodate the massive influx of displaced people, business owners are also pitching in.

He also drew attention to the $ 4 million the company recently pledged to help displaced people across the world.

I am proud that our union has added its voice to those of so many other Canadians who want to help, moved by the human plight of so many millions of displaced people.

Humanitarian Emergencies, Internally Displaced Persons, Migration and Climate Change, Migration and Environment

Some other members visited a shelter for displaced people near Kyev.

In a joint statement, the Foreign and Interior Ministers said: «We are providing aid to displaced people fleeing from the threats of Islamic State and who have sought refuge in Kurdistan.

But one person isn't waiting another minute to help rescue the spirits of the men and women stuck at the Houston convention center that's taking on displaced people.

Now home to more than one million refugees — more than one - third of its population — Lebanon has taken the longest to resettle displaced people, says Soerens.

The commission's top recommendation to address the surge in displaced people is that the US government should raise the ceiling on the number of refugees resettled from 70,000 to at least 100,000, with «additional reserves» for the Middle East.

The Nativity scene would be empty without Jews, Arabs, Africans, and displaced people.

Older people, people with disabilities, indigenous people, refugees and internally displaced persons are also particularly vulnerable to poverty.

Indeed, it is a counterliturgy, because it affirms a kind of life remote from the reality of these displaced people.

Gordon described the current refugee crisis as the worst yet and one that will get worse for 65 million displaced people due to impacts of climate change and unresolved conflict.

He was not a refugee, not an immigrant, not a displaced person.

Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church and experience feelings of spiritual homelessness) and spiritually displaced persons (those who are still within the church and experience...

So, whether you're a refugee which means you crossed a national border or whether you're an internally displaced person, all that kind of stuff really does end up mattering here.

The 27 - year - old from Erbil joined the anti-persecution charity Open Doors UK in encouraging ministers to commit to helping refugees and internally displaced people return home, as IS is gradually forced out.

The UN estimates there are around 34 million refugees and internally displaced people around the world.

What's important to remember is that, just like a refugee or an internally displaced person, they never lose their identity.

The same if you are a spiritual refugee or a spiritually displaced person: you are no less Christian, no less a believer, and no less spiritual... unless of course you want to willingly surrender these identities.

Last week I wrote a post on spiritual refugees (people who have left the church and experience feelings of spiritual homelessness) and spiritually displaced persons (those who are still within the church and experience it as unhealthy for them but feel trapped at the same time).

We found ourselves in Baghdad offering sanctuary to the displaced people.

The philosopher Heidegger — who is usually contrasted with Marx — actually said that Marx described best how rootless and displaced people are these days.

Today, there are 65 million displaced people, the most since World War II, and 795 million people still go to bed hungry every night.

Many people like Ali fled Mosul with relatively little and often lack the basic necessities of life and employment opportunities for displaced people are extremely limited.

Displaced persons and refugees?

The world now has more displaced people than during World War II.

According to the index, the world has become less peaceful in the last eight years, and one of the consequences is that more than 50 million people have been forced from their homes as refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs).

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

There was an emphasis in Europe on rebuilding shattered societies and helping refugees and displaced persons.

The agency's first task was to try to help the legacy of refugees and displaced persons in Europe created by the Second World War.

They are a team of 10 refugees — just a small representation of the millions of displaced people around the world.

Leon Gersten (at the far left end of the third row back) with other schoolchildren in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

As displaced people, they have lost hope that they might eventually return to their homeland or survive in their present condition.

Large numbers of displaced people were brought to America, jobs were found for them, homes were furnished — all under the care of the Churches.

The State Department defended his nomination for the position, which facilitates international cooperation over refugees, internally displaced persons, and other migrants.

Because of an extensive relational network, donations to this ministry reach the least accessible and most vulnerable displaced people.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that worldwide there are 50 million refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced people.

Many of these displaced people left behind successful businesses and middle - class lifestyles, losing everything.

70 % of the roughly 40 million refugges or displaced people are muslims fleeing some sort of conflict in their part of the world.

Against that, the displaced people claim the right to life (Art 21 of the Constitution)... One of the aims of the struggle is to protect the material base for creative life - centred life - sustaining activities.

Out of roughly 40 million refugees and displaced people, 70 % are muslims escaping regional or civll wars.

Ukraine has absorbed 1.5 million displaced persons fleeing Crimea or the war - zones of the Donbas — the rough equivalent of the United States being suddenly confronted with about 12.4 million internal refugees.

«There are ways to put parks in this community without tearing buildings down, without displacing people, and that's what we're working on,» Gordon said.

At a relief camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Lahore, capital of Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province, donations are coming in.

Though well - meaning donors often give formula in camps for refugees and displaced persons, health campaigners are working to change this practice, too, noting that even if women are malnourished, their breast milk is probably healthier than formula, and that breastfeeding promotes bonding and a sense of security vital for women and children facing upheaval.

The Governor also directed officials to comb the camp throughout the night of Thursday to search within and around the camp to ensure no displaced person has any object that can cause injury.