Sentences with phrase «poor children in other countries»

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The money you get from other's through the government would do more good if used to provide food and clean water to poor children in undeveloped countries.

One topic that is explored in depth in the book is the idea that mothers from poorer countries who work as nannies in other countries take their love away or redirect it from their own children and give it to the children in their care in the rich country.

«Bright children from poor backgrounds do much better in other countries than here in the UK.

The funds will be used to purchase qualifying vaccines against pneumococcus, a pneumonia bug that kills more children in poor countries than any other preventable infection

Like 500,000 other children born in poor countries, her blindness is a result of vitamin A deficiency, a problem that could have been fixed by a diet adequate in vegetables such as carrots or tomatoes.

Dr John Jerrim, author of the report, said: «These figures show that in the UK children from poorer homes receive significantly less help with their studies outside of school than in many of the other countries surveyed.

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

It shows that in the US, as in other countries, children from better educated, wealthier families will achieve better results than poorer children.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

But what is not debatable is that American children's academic achievement is poor in comparison to children living in other wealthy countries.

When evaluating how much we spend on our military defense or keeping nasty, awful, unconscionable murderers and child molesters alive in jail... then it seems ludicrous we or any other wealthy country can't assist the poorer countries to develop better sanitation systems and practices.

They were and are hidden, particularly since all of them have occurred in other countries far from the US and primarily take the lives and imperil the health of the poor and children in rural areas.

O'Donnell is the lead author on the Child Status Index (CSI), used to assess orphans and other vulnerable children in over 16 resource - poor countries and also on the Family Support Matrix, used in the Family Connects program.