Sentences with phrase «rural communities as»

COTAP allocates 90.9 % of your offset transaction to its 4 portfolio projects in Nicaragua, Mozambique, Uganda, and Malawi where a projected 60.4 % percent goes to rural communities as life - changing wages.

Kamen's device got serious backing in 2012 when Coca - Cola signed a partnership agreement (for undisclosed terms) and pledged to help deliver the Slingshot to rural communities as part of its goal to become «water neutral» by 2020 — replenishing «every drop» of water used in the creation of the company's products.

It brought to mind my own experience with the funeral of a dear lady who'd lived what we call around here «a hard life» and was best known in the small rural community as «the bootlegger's widow.»

This has been a difficult time in our rural community as our local public school corporation has fallen on difficult financial times and has been forced to close three elementary schools in the last three years, increasing classroom sizes drastically and frustrating many parents who are now seeking a choice in their children's education.

So what True Love Edition is, whether intentionally or not, is ultimately a story about existing in a rural community as an LGBTQIA + person that isn't centered around death and grief and suffering.

The Lanesboro Artist Residency Program provides an opportunity for emerging artists to create new work and explore new ideas while utilizing the dynamic and compelling assets of an entire rural community as a catalytic vehicle for engagement and artistic experimentation.

Not exact matches

While my family and I love our community in rural Maine, my work as a professional speaker necessitates living closer to an international airport, so we made the decision to move closer to Portland this summer.

Netflix description: «During the Great Depression, a stranger with a violent past poses as a preacher and rallies farmers to mount a strike in a rural Iowa community.»

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

Tenet Healthcare was up as much as 7 %, HCA Holdings spiked 5.5 %, Community Health Systems rose more than 4 %, and rural care provider LifePoint Health is up more than 3 %.

As part of the tie - up Internet.org and Unilever will carry out a comprehensive study to examine the opportunities to increase Internet adoption in rural communities.

And as you've grown, we've grown right alongside you, with 59 offices across Canada in both major urban centres and rural communities.

«Proposed legislation seeks to redirect investments to low income and rural communities and would make it tougher for developers to access funds in big cities such as Miami.

I was elected as a director on the local constituency association board and over the next year I campaigned alongside the candidate in communities across the sprawling rural Redwater constituency.

This is especially good news for rural communities and industries such as forestry, pulp and paper, and mining.

2000 years ago there literally was not enough money in the suburban or rural communities to always send the disciples to go buy food from the city and so Jesus provided miracles as needed.

The rural Lutheran communities of the Saginaw Valley in central Michigan where they had spent their childhoods were so thoroughly German in language and culture that they might as well still have been located in the Franconia (now part of Bavaria) from which they had sprung.

But in the United States, the uprooting of the rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.

For Warren, it is neither rural community («stickers») nor big city ambition («boomers»)-- as Berry puts it following Wallace Stegner in his Jefferson Lecture — that is at the heart of the trouble of the American soul.

He adds: «At Rural Ministries, we're not about keeping churches open simply because they've always been there, but rather enabling Christians to ask the mission - shaped questions, such as: «In light of who we are and where we are, what is the good news for this community and how might we express it?

Growing up in a rural community, gaining the PRIVILEGE (we understood it as such) of getting your first hunting license was a rite of passage for a 12 year old.

When I served as a rural priest in Tamilnadu in the 1980s I was intrigued to discover how many Dalit Christian communities wanted their native Dalit religious rites and Christian rites to co-exist.

«We know from what at least two diocesan bishops have said that in less than ten years we will see a threat to the presence of church in communities across rural England and some urban areas as well.

At Edinburgh it would have been regarded as a side issue to study the organization of the rural community.

During this program seventy - eight clergymen from twenty - three urban and rural communities participated with eighteen persons from medicine, psychiatry, social work, and psychology as co-participants.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

These teleconferences have focused on a range of topics: the drug crisis; the Church as seen through media; teaching sexual morality; what's really working in adult religious education; the Church and rural communities; dwindling priests and church finances; and many other topics.

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

As part of an undergraduate internship, Taya designed and built a passive - air solar food dehydrator to address the needs of a community in rural Rwanda.

«As the jury, we believe that through awarding the prize to Leonor we recognise all those people who are working hard today so the city and rural communities can come together though gastronomy.

When she came on as the food service director the two schools in this small rural community were losing $ 27,000 a year in their cafeterias.

Steu is a long - time supporter of the LGBTQ community, as well as organizations such as Teach For America, where he served as a teacher in rural Mississippi.

The Park Board bought the farm near Schoolhouse and LaPorte Roads in 1997 for $ 3.2 million to develop a large community park while preserving part of the farm as an example of the town's rural roots.

A moving, fascinating memoir of Penny Armstrong's years as midwife to an Amish community in rural Pennsylvania.

However, this law is rarely adhered to as nearly all shops, even in the most rural communities, stock the product.

We are hoping this year to spread out to more rural communities across the state that don't get as much access to training opportunities, while still having a presence in the metro areas.

The inequity experienced by pregnant women living in rural and remote locations forced to travel long distances to access maternity care, is raised as a failure of government to provide essential services to these communities [31 — 33] placing lives at risk.

«Rural communities that already have high levels of volunteering may be better equipped to absorb additional voluntary roles, as the social connections and support structures are already in place,» says Dr Rutherford.

The report also agreed that hunts did contribute to the cohesion of rural communities, but qualified this by saying that this was not as important as the bonds formed by the village pub or church.

«Instead, well designed homes, green homes, homes in mixed communities with good facilities, rural homes as well as homes in towns and cities.

However, government targets presently suggest just 10,300 new affordable homes will be built in smaller rural communities (defined as less than 3,000 inhabitants) over the next three years.

The officers examined a selection of shotguns and rifles, traps and kit, while the training also focused on illegal activity affecting rural communities such as deer poaching and hare coursing.

This will not just have a negative impact on many British - based industries such as energy and building but also to rural communities and sustainable growth in the countryside.

The NHS is important to us all, but many rural communities are seeing their NHS services disappear as cuts and privatisation begin to take hold, and they are fighting to stop it.

The provision of broadband for rural areas underpins their existence as sustainable communities.

A week that U.S. Senate Republicans had hoped would mobilize conservatives and shore up support for their measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act instead ended with eroding enthusiasm, as usually reliable Republican senators from red states blanched at its impact on rural communities.

Teachout is a Catherine wheel of ideas — in the course of the day we talked about anti-trust, fracking, the desperate need for broadband in rural communities, the way Big Ag gobbles up subsidies meant for family farmers, and the «chickenization» of production that puts all the economic risk and environmental damage on farmers as firms like Tyson keep squeezing the market.

Far from helping conservation and other Green Party aims, they would result in the immediate end to conservation work carried out as part of shooting and inflict mortal blows to rural communities which depend on shooting to remain viable.

Spending over Ȼ80, 000 in tank donations to marginalized areas and groups, Polytank Ghana's benevolence has impacted institutions as the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Police, some Fire Service stations, Educational institutions, international NGOs, rural communities, among others.