Sentences with phrase «on alleviating poverty»

It seems to me the focus should be on alleviating poverty and improving diet.

Some critics say that India should focus on alleviating poverty rather than space travel.

We collect, «weecycle» and match essential baby gear to families through partner organizations focused on alleviating poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, teen pregnancy and under - employment.

Not exact matches

Outside of KPCB, John supports entrepreneurs focused on the environment, public education and alleviating global poverty.

Following St. Francis, for example, means being «more interested in alleviating poverty and helping the afflicted than in staking out doctrinaire positions on things like contraception.»

The ONE campaign, an advocacy group co-founded by the rock star Bono to help alleviate poverty and fight AIDS in Africa, hoped the metaphor would carry on to their project to get people more involved in AIDS advocacy.

Moynihan's thinking on this was influenced by his own experiences of deprivation and the Catholic doctrine of subsidiarity which led him to put particular stress on the importance of families in alleviating poverty.

For Christ's sake can we, an undisciplined people, begin to think in terms of a self - disciplined life, foregoing some of our transient pleasures for the deeper joy of helping humanity — to the point, even, of casting our votes for proposals which are contrary to our self - interest but which can help to alleviate poverty, promote peace, and confer dignity and self - respect on those less fortunate?

The petitions are based on the false assumption that the mere creation of regions will accelerate development, improve governance and alleviate poverty in the newly created regions.

Claire said: «It has never been more important to focus on alleviating fuel poverty in the UK and I am delighted to be joining Warm Zones at such a crucial time.

Abeiku Santana also took his gun on parliament because he felt they only spend majority of their discussions, on loans instead of discussing policies that will alleviate the poverty of Ghanaians.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

The government's plans to increase the sanctions on benefit recipients will do nothing to alleviate poverty without the creation of more jobs with decent pay, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Hawkins said he would focus on alleviating Syracuse's high rate of concentrated poverty.

Glover is on the advisory board at Food Tank, a nonprofit committed to environmental, social and economic ways to sustainably alleviate hunger, obesity and poverty.

Certainly any strategy that seeks to improve life chances and equalise opportunities for children without turning the tide against growing levels of child poverty is going to face an uphill struggle and place an even greater burden on services that seek to alleviate various negative effects of inadequate family resources.

«When you have a program like ours — focused on Africa, focused on trying to alleviate poverty and utilize the resources for the benefit of the people — a lot of African Americans become interested,» says Adewumi.

Rockefeller Foundation funded a 7 - component project on drought - tolerance in rice, which was launched to alleviate food insecurity and poverty in rural Asia.

Some argue that since poverty is strongly related to achievement, we must alleviate poverty before we can hope to have an effect of schools on achievement.

Given the extent of poverty in our society and the heavy burden that has been placed on the schools to alleviate its impact, it is astounding how much educational progress has been made.

Explores national and global poverty, how Caritas Australia is working to alleviate poverty and some suggestions on how you can get involved.

Community schools can help alleviate those barriers created by poverty and empower the student to focus on learning.

Pruitt said while she does not offer that as an excuse for Gary schools or any urban school, she said those facts underscore the urgency to alleviate the effects of poverty on children, and help them receive a full range of educational and family services that complement one another to help students reach their potential.

He believes it will be necessary to engage in a concerted effort on many fronts and urges that we combine school improvement with community resources to alleviate the effects of poverty and racial segregation.

Dr. King's beliefs were founded on the principles of nonviolence and the empowerment of communities by alleviating poverty.

With two billion of the world's population living on less than $ 2 a day, alleviating crushing poverty and the health, social and environmental ills that accompany it, is everyone's moral responsibility.

We've got a spoken rule around the TreeHugger virtual office that we don't write «save the planet» as it's simplistic cliché, but breaking that rule somehow seems appropriate at this moment: According to a new report from the UNEP investing just 2 % of global GDP could both alleviate global poverty, set us solidly on the path away from fossil fuels, and cut our collective ecological footprint nearly in half.

The area's tribal inhabitants depend on agriculture, hunting and collection of forest products for their livelihoods but additional sources of income are badly needed to alleviate their poverty.

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India (http://selco-india.com/), and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 pPoverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 ppoverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) specializes in connecting your carbon footprint with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

I think the US should insist on an international policy that puts alleviating energy poverty ahead of climate change limitations.

«Massive increases in energy consumption would be necessary to alleviate poverty for the nearly 50 % of the world's population who live on less than $ 2.50 a day,» Wagner said.

Of those that maintain that that alleviating poverty remains a primary concern, «climate instability» serves as a convenient peg on which to hang other neuroses.

The strategy focuses on rapid implementation at country level of high - impact, low - cost, scaleable (HILCS) energy interventions demonstrated to alleviate poverty.

The World Bank has made a «fundamental shift» in its role of alleviating global poverty, by refocusing its financing efforts towards tackling climate change, the group said on Thursday.

And in making this plan happen, the rich countries must take the lead: Focusing Just on the Economy is Short - Sighted The report says that efforts to revive the world economy alone are essential «unless new policy initiatives also address other global challenges — reducing carbon dependency, protecting ecosystems and water resources, alleviating poverty — their impact on averting future crises will be short - lived.»

«A continued reliance on huge coal, nuclear, and hydro plants has done little to alleviate energy poverty, forcing the poor around the world to rely on kerosene for their meager energy needs,» says Harish Hande, founder of SELCO - India, and recent recipient of the prestigious Magsaysay award.