Sentences with phrase «serves impoverished children»

Northwest Children's Outreach (NCO) is an all - volunteer non-profit that serves impoverished children ages zero to 18.

In cities like Mumbai, home to the world's largest slum, the AIF works with seventeen schools that primarily serve impoverished children.

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Instead, the program is intended to serve the millions of impoverished American children whose parents can not send them to school with a home - packed lunch for a whole host of possible reasons that never seem to cross Parker's mind: the family's SNAP benefits fail to cover a month's worth of healthful food, in light of today's rising food costs; there is only one parent in the household and he or she works one or more jobs and is not home to pack a lunch; one or both caretakers are drug - addicted, mentally ill, physically disabled or otherwise unable to adequately provide for their children; the family lives in a homeless shelter and lacks access to kitchen facilities; the family lives in a food desert where healthful groceries are scarce, etc. etc..

«If we believe that education is the way out of poverty, then we need to stop making the schools that serve the poorer children the most impoverished schools.

Dr. Fountain Hanna has dedicated both her professional and personal life to serving those in diverse communities across the country who have traditionally had a limited voice to speak for themselves including children, impoverished and disenfranchised populations.