Sentences with phrase «slum children»

Postscript * For context on my opening point, read my 1991 Good Housekeeping profile of an American nun in Brazil who, faced with the frequent murders of slum children, built a case against a Brazilian police officer.

You can get the idea by exploring Facebook posts by one of Shanize's mentors, Joseph «Sejo» Mwangi, a young Mathare resident who works with slum children on everything from soccer skills to rap compositions.

Bellows's early works show the influence of Henri in their dark, tonal palette, vigorous brushwork, and urban subject matter; typical of this period is Forty - Two Kids (1907), a painting of slum children swimming and diving in the East River.

As noted above, in Ga and Hyderabad we were comparing public and private schools that were located in similar, low - income areas, while in Kibera, private schools served only slum children, and public schools served middle - class children as well as slum children.

Danny Boyle is trying his best to help slum children in Mumbai to overcome poverty by setting up a trust fund.

Yoga For HOPE was established in 2009 by yoga teacher and dedicated supporter of HOPE, Mella Murphy, to help raise much needed funds to support HOPE's projects with the street and slum children of Kolkata.

Not exact matches

A mother and her child wait in the emergency room of a hospital at Petare slum east of Caracas, Venezuela on Feb. 4, 2016.

«I say: You are not alone; the church is with you, the pope is with you bring me your young children,» Francis told residents of the notorious Varginha favela, or slum.

Pioneer sociologists were uncovering the shame of city slums and the disgrace of child labor in field and factory.

It is not the will of God that children suffer from hunger and malnutrition and grow up in unsanitary slums with lack of proper education, that persons because of the color of their skin are debarred from schools, hospitals, employment, or housing projects; that persons are denied other basic human rights; that personalities and homes are broken through drink and that great numbers die on highways through drunken driving; that marriage vows are often taken lightly and that easy divorces shatter home after home and leave children the pawns of the parents» selfishness.

Let a child be physically maimed for life by a birth injury, or spiritually maimed by having to grow up in hunger and fear as in war - torn lands, or in squalor and crime as in our own slums; and then when the natural consequences appear, not a few pious Christians will say that God in his inscrutable providence willed it to be this way.

In some slum areas ten to thirty percent of the school - age children are mentally or culturally retarded.

If one rides the downtown bus in one of our large cities through the slum areas in which children play in dirty alleys behind saloons, and then passes a housing project with clean, sunlit yards.

An analogy to baptism would be the removal (either literally or figuratively) of a child from the slums of a great city, where the child has been surrounded by influences that might cause him or her to grow up as a young delinquent, into a healthy and wholesome atmosphere where in loving acceptance there will be provided a healthy and glad acceptance, with deep friendships, happy environment, and enriching circumstances.

Based on a true story first told in an ESPN magazine feature, Queen of Katwe tells the story of a Christian missionary (played by David Oyelowo), who teaches Uganda children living in slums to play chess.

Inclusion criteria: «all pregnant women aged between 12 to 49 years old, who are residents of community units in Korogocho and Viwandani slums that fall within the Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System (NUHDSS) area, and their respective children (when born)».

The narrator neglects to mention, of course, some of the ostensibly insignificant issues confronting British people at the time, such as the absence of workers» rights, child labour, slum housing and mass poverty.

The diverse range of subjects included Bangladeshi slums built precariously on bamboo stilts, a child running barefoot in fountains on London's South Bank and the futuristic bright lights of the Hong Kong mid-levels by night.

They analyzed stool samples collected from children in the urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, and determined that children with more severe infections had less diversity in their gut microbiome.

Rosemarie, who until then had played the part of the doting housewife, whisked her son and daughter away to live in the slums of Staten Island with her father, her children's only remaining grandparent.

The child of the slums, the African sorcerer, the Nobel laureates in economics — everyone will have up to four pages.

«Children in developing world infected with parasite — even without appearing ill — may be more prone to stunted growth: Cryptosporidium infects more than 75 percent of poor children in Bangladeshi slum; more than half experience stuntingChildren in developing world infected with parasite — even without appearing ill — may be more prone to stunted growth: Cryptosporidium infects more than 75 percent of poor children in Bangladeshi slum; more than half experience stuntingchildren in Bangladeshi slum; more than half experience stunting.»

The researchers followed 392 children from a slum called Mirpur from birth until the age of two.

The researchers, publishing May 4 in the journal PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, found that three of every four children studied in a slum on the outskirts of the capital of Bangladesh experienced at least one Cryptosporidium infection in the first 24 months of life.

Both during the games and today, mothers living in Rio's sprawling urban slums give birth weekly to microcephalic babies (children born with abnormally small heads and a range of other complications).

Scientists in the 1920s and 1930s preached (even in Nature) the need for «negative eugenics», including the compulsory sterilisation of slum dwellers for being «morons» or having too many children, or of dock labourers and miners for being Irish.

Effect of routine zinc supplementation on pneumonia in children aged 6 months to 3 years: randomised controlled trial in an urban slum.

CANNES 2018: Nadine Labaki fixes her gaze on the slums of Beirut, telling the devastating survival story of a child who didn't ask to be born

When two children were picked from a Mumbai slum to star in Slumdog Millionaire, the big question was how they would cope with the grubbiness of reality once out of the spotlight.

Children from the slum who wander past after school point excitedly at the pictures, whispering, «That's Sunny meeting the Rock,» referring to the WWE wrestler - turned - actor, Dwayne Johnson.

They go through a lot through their 10 year relationship, including Jamal's jealous brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) who decides he doesn't like Latika when they are children in the slums and for the next decade or so he goes out of his way to make Latika's life hell and keeps her separated from Jamal.

But before she even gets a chance to approach the authorities, she's shot to death while walking through the slums by a couple of pint - sized, child muggers with a pistol.

In Katwe, in a small village that isn't far from the Ugandan capital city of Kampala there are some children living in slums.

Dex for instance must learn to overcome his man child stage and alcohol problems to redeem the slum that he falls into.

Phiona Mutesi (Madina Nalwanga) lives in the slums of Katwe, Uganda, one of three children of young, hardworking widow Harriet (12 Years a Slave Oscar winner Lupita Nyong «o).

Rival gang children living in the slums of Rio de Janeiro grow up to be rival adolescents — and sadly, not much older — in director Fernando Meirelles's violent, heart - pounding saga.

After the recent Devil's Knot, also about children in peril, it's arguably more satisfying to see Egoyan slum in distinctive style than default to anonymous prestige mode.

Most notably, there's Lupita Nyong» o, who takes what could have been a hopelessly clichéd character — the long - suffering single mother trying to raise her children in an African slum — and gives her strength and dignity without making her into a saint.

And it didn't matter that the people in those slums where the empty schools were weren't Catholic, says McDonald, who often quotes a line attributed to Cardinal James Hickey of Washington, D.C., which has become a call to arms in the new crusade to save Catholic education: «We don't educate these children because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic.»

Once he became an instructor, Wamaya joined a UK - based charity that offers an alternative, arts education to orphans and vulnerable children in some of Africa's most desperately deprived areas including those living in slum conditions in Kenya.

Her philosophy grew from her work with children in the slums and today the Montessori International Association is operating in some of the poorest and most challenging areas of the world.

He is the co-founder of Educar y Crecer (EyC), an initiative that offers remedial education in math and reading to children in slums in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of Enseñá por Argentina (EpA), an effort to recruit the country's best and brightest college graduates to teach in schools serving the poor for at least two years.

In terms of total student enrollment in the slum areas of the three zones, with 918 schools, 76 percent of all schoolchildren attended either recognized or unrecognized private schools, with roughly the same percentage of children in the unrecognized private schools as in government schools (see Figure 1).

From a wide range of settings, from deepest rural China, through the slums of urban India and Kenya, to the urban periphery areas o Ghana, private education is serving huge numbers of children.

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

A nonprofit organization helps children in the Mumbai slums and other impoverished areas improve their futures by training them to use computers.

#NakedTeachingDay is designed to raise awareness of the plight of children from less developed countries who attend makeshift schools in slums, refugee camps etc..

«I work with various associations and projects, helping children from slums around my city of Curitiba, state of Paranà ¡,» Borio tells Education World.

For children of migrant workers who would otherwise face a roving existence in slums and construction sites, Puvidham constructed a hostel facility, housing about half of the school's population.

Another gives vouchers to parents living in slums to send children who are not in school to PEF - approved institutions.