Sentences with phrase «remote people and communities»

Just imagine what a wonderful difference this has made for rural and remote people and communities!

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Co-working spaces attract freelancers and remote workers because most talented people crave the social interactions and mental stimulation that comes from a community of peers.

«As a remote worker, Workfrom makes me feel like part of a global community of people who look out for each other and promote a lifestyle of freedom.»

In 2014, global online community Reddit asked remote workers, as well as people working in the company's Salt Lake City and New York City offices, to relocate to the main office in the San Francisco Bay area if they wanted to keep their jobs.

Yet even in the remote fastnesses of Morayshire, people find their way to the monastery, and the Easter celebrations are «the greatest public service a monastic community can perform».

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

In the historical frame of the last 230 years, the current proposal by the WA government to remove basic services and infrastructure support from some remote Aboriginal communities is, whatever the rhetorical and «pragmatic» justifications, yet another dispossession of both people, and the country to which they belong and owe the duty of custodianship.

It is particularly exciting that Golden Rice has the potential to help the poorest people in the most vulnerable and remote communities get enough vitamin A where they currently can not.

Constrained by the diktats, directives and dogma set by a remote central office, the ability of mainstream politicians to always act in the best interests of local people and communities can be compromised.

Science can often feel unapproachable for many people, kids and adults alike, he said, so getting scientists into classrooms and communities can put real faces to a sometimes - remote enterprise.

The research team identified the genetic «map» of the human parasitic scabies mite, accelerating research that could lead to new ways of preventing and treating scabies infestations and prevent lifelong complications for people in remote Aboriginal communities.

The groups Price studied included remote villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, indigenous peoples of North and South America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines and New Zealand Maori.

«Kids Helpline is now a significant provider of mental health services for children and young people across Australia and we are often the only option the young have for support, particularly after hours or in regional and remote communities.»

The submission proposes five priorities for reform and includes recommendations for Initial Teacher Education providers to expand culturally appropriate and flexible pathways for Indigenous people, all graduates to complete a «comprehensive sequence» of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies during their education degree, and a national review considering the challenges of preparing teachers to work in remote Indigenous communities.

But it isn't just chronic pain that is driving use of prescription painkillers; evidence suggests it is the sense of disconnect, of lost opportunity, of the dissolution of the traditional community in rural and remote parts of America, that is driving people to seek solace in drugs, both prescribed and otherwise.

If people do not understand this, just observe the changes in the remote corners of countries like Rwanda — right in the heart of Africa, where mobile phones and Wi - Fi have penetrated deep into the communities - and new generations of learners have realised that they too can access the same information as every other country.

When Monks is untied and steps out, he sees he's been brought to a remote off - the - grid community where paramilitary training and methamphetamine make for combustible, uneasy bedfellows — and that Glenn has fallen under the spell of a disenfranchised countercultural sociopath known simply as Freeboot, who claims that a revolution «of the people» is already under way.

A University in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encouraging people to read.

A community based program delivering financial literacy education with and for people in remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities to help them positively manage their money.

In these 4 days you will be able to see Quechua communities their ancestor have lived since long ago, Inka Altitude designed this Lares Valley Cultural Trek to Machu Picchu so that our travellers could see remote villages (Lares, Huacawasi, Ipsaqcocha, Patacancha) where local people are friendly and happy to share this Andean tradition with people who are visiting their lands.

V: I think it would have to be Christmas Island — it's a remote Australia island territory over 2600 km from Perth and full of incredible landscapes, wonderful wildlife and an amazing local community (there's less than 2000 people that live there!)

Travel to a remote Aboriginal community and discover the ancient culture of a fascinating people on this Arnhem Land tour.

Remote Photo resembles a music festival, where people from all walks of life come together to form a unique community of locals and visitors, during the festival's core weekend.

Ecotourism is not only about journeying to remote and fragile destinations; it is also an attempt to involve indigenous people to promote sustainable tourism that benefits their communities.

Given all the excitement about how fast a 10 - car train can travel from a remote suburb to city centre, or how many people a tram can attract away from their cars, mayors and planners frequently forget about the neighbourhoods and communities that their vehicles stop at.

Education and responsibility to a wider community makes people remote and thus subverts their credibility.

The people who hold themselves as remote from the community are not necessarily just scientists, however, but include all types of people who simply lack empathy and feeling for other people who are worse off than they are.

PUCALLPA, Peru — Tribal people in a remote headwaters region in the Peruvian Amazon are reacting with defiance and despair to the recent brutal murders of four community leaders who were ambushed on a jungle trail near the border with Brazil.

Estonia's digital ID program allows people around the world to participate in a virtual community and run remote business as Estonian startups.

The program, which is the brainchild of entrepreneurs Michele Romanov, Anatoliy Melnichuk, and Michael Cronin, will give 75 currently employed people the chance to travel to South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia while working their jobs, participating in activities and excursions, and building a community of remote workers.

Interviews with listeners and people during remote broadcast events at local bars and community

Provided support using phone, in person, e-mail and remote desktop for all internal user community regarding all hardware / software solutions or issues.

In remote areas, 31 % of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people felt their community was a better place to live compared to the previous 12 months, 49 % said it was the same and 16 % felt it was worse.

Urgent research and assessment is required to determine the impacts on Indigenous people's health in remote and regional communities to ensure that residents on these communities have access to basic services including primary health care and the health services they require.

Does the current emphasis on SRAs and strategic interventions in discrete and remote communities mean that for urban Indigenous peoples the unsatisfactory state of affairs regarding access to mainstream services will be perpetuated?

Commonwealth, state, territory and local government agencies work with Indigenous communities to provide safe, healthy and sustainable housing for Indigenous people.66 The Commonwealth provides substantial support to Indig enous housing remote areas through the Aboriginal Renting Housing Program (ARHP); 67 Community Housing and Infrastructure Program (CHIP); and the National Aboriginal Health Strategy (NAHs).68 In addition, state and territory governments also contribute funding for Indigenous housing.

This is on the basis that need is greatest in remote communities, and on the understanding that mainstream services are generally available to urban - based Indigenous peoples.

What mechanisms should the national representative body use to ensure that traditionally marginalised groups (such as people with disabilities, members of the Stolen Generations, people living in remote communities and homelands and young people) have a say in the new body?

Some of the major issues tackled by the Commission in recent years include workplace sexual harassment, pregnancy discrimination and maternity leave; disability rights in areas such as access to transport, captioning, access to electronic commerce for older Australians and people with a disability; race discrimination; Indigenous social justice issues such as mandatory sentencing, community capacity - building and native title; and human rights issues such as children in detention, education for rural and remote communities and age discrimination.

Moves to close down remote Indigenous communities in WA and SA have prompted an urgent response from the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, which has written to Prime Minister Tony Abbott urging him to intervene.

«Shutting down remote communities and forcing Aboriginal people to move to other communities, such as is being proposed in Western Australia, will only make matters worse.

The National Rural Health Alliance acknowledges that climate change poses a growing risk to the health and wellbeing of people living in regional, rural and remote communities, through more frequent severe weather events, longer droughts and changes in rainfall patterns.

Driver licensing sanctions and fines enforcement can be particularly detrimental for people living in regional and remote communities that have limited access to public transport, people on a low income and people who face barriers to driver licensing, all of which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are over-represented — this points to inherent inequity within the licensing and justice system.

Meanwhile, writing on Croakey, Colleen Lavelle outlines 10 ways everyone can help to close the gap, including employing more Indigenous hospital liaison officers and employing more Indigenous people across the entire health sector, while the issue of obesity in Australia's remote Indigenous communities and the struggle to eat well against the odds, is explored in this JournalWatch article.

-- Exchanges between surf life saving clubs and remote communities (eg North Palm Beach Surf Club and the Jawoyn communities in the NT) improve the health and fitness of young Aboriginal people and open up the experience of discovering Aboriginal community life for the young urban lifesavers.

Speaking via video from New York, Calma said Indigenous smoking figures are «pretty harsh» — with real worries about young smokers («we start young») and people living in remote communities, away from supports.

Goldie said the situation illustrated how critical it was that the Federal Government not walk away from agreements like the NPARH «which is a critical part of addressing the affordable housing crisis for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in remote communities.»

So while governments and policy makers need to know there are still significant and very complex problems in remote Aboriginal communities, Stewart's presentation was an important reminder that there are some amazing and justifiably proud people living in communities.

The primary healthcare service provides for a population of 764 Indigenous Australians aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 28.5 % of a total of 2677 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The community - based youth service serves a population of approximately 4338 Indigenous young people aged 10 — 24 years, which represents 30.1 % of a total of 14 391 Indigenous persons in the local population.34 The client base of both services includes a significant number of young people who move between the regional centre and the remote and very remote communities of far north Queensland.

The NHRA was also less than positive about the new primary care co-payments, «It is hard to see how the increase in patient contributions will assist in improving access to primary care for people in rural and remote communities» said NRHA Chairperson Tim Kelly.