Sentences with phrase «support children around the world»

Some ongoing initiatives include scholarships and non-profit grants to raise awareness and support children around the world.

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Nine - year - old Vivienne Harr used a lemonade stand to raise more than $ 100,000 to support efforts to eliminate child slavery around the world.
2014.04.02 Double amputee Spencer West embarks on coast to coast road trip to celebrate Canadian students opening the doors to education around the world An initiative of international charity and educational partner, Free The Children, and supported by RBC and Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., the We Create Change Tour will run from April 11 - June 17, 2014...
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced a program to support blockchain start - ups that will help children around thChildren's Fund (UNICEF) has announced a program to support blockchain start - ups that will help children around thchildren around the world.
So, in honor of the new addition to Team Evans, I'm joining Melinda Gates, Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, Kay Warren, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter and host of other Christian advocates in their support of an organization called Hope Through Healing Hands, and in particular the Faith Based Coalition for Healthy Mothers and Children Worldwide, which seeks to galvanize faith - based leaders and their constituencies around the issues of maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) as well as healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies (HTSP) to improve maternal health and reduce child mortality around the world.
Mormon volunteers in Ghana, for example, arranged for 1.5 million text messages to be sent to fellow citizens in support of the country's launch of vaccines against pneumonia and rotavirus, two diseases that together claim the lives of more than 2 million children around the world every year.
He also talked about the need for the government to support efforts and technology that can save children around the world, reform the foster care system and help the most vulnerable.
No Jesus would not support healthcare Jesus lets little children die from illness around the world so he obviously doesn't believe in healthcare or their would be no sickness.
Nashville, TN — May, 2014 — Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of parenting support groups with more than 70 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, community leader and advocate for children and families, Margaret Feierabend.
API relies on a small staff, incredible volunteers, and these strong systems to support parents, children, and professionals around the world.
While I do not have time to get into it in the talk, I am tremendously committed to supporting at - risk families around the world, and to preventing children from being orphaned by poverty.
Communities around the world are taking the lead of Finland, where the Baby Box has been issued to all families on the birth of a baby for over 75 years, a practice that led to a dramatic decrease in infant mortality, and is now embedded in a societal support for parents and children that extends well beyond the newborn period.
Most parents who use ring slings transition their babies to this carrying style around 4 months of age, but you can do so whenever your child is getting more interested in the world around you as long as he or she can support his or her back, head, and neck without added assistance.
For each cute and cuddly IKEA Soft Toy purchased during the holiday season, the company makes a donation to UNICEF and Save the Children to support educational programs in developing countries around the world, raising more than $ 6 million last year.
Volunteers around the world are working everyday on programs, locally and online, to educate and support parents in raising children whose brain neurons are forming each child's reality of love.
Attachment Parenting International (API) is directly involved in building resilience in communities across the nation and around the world through its local API Support Groups and accredited API Leaders by supporting secure parent - child attachments.
While we should do our best to limit our kids» exposure to violence, we should also acknowledge that this is the reality of the world we live in, and we need to navigate around helping children find comfort and provide them with the support they need.
A consensus document that has been recognized as an important model for improving the healthcare and well being of children beginning at birth, the Mother - Friendly Childbirth Initiative has been translated into several languages and is gaining support around the world.
We help adoptive families with educational resources, provide a community of adoptees for our children and young adults; an online and offline adoptive family support structure stretching across the United States and around the world, in regional chapters, on down to local Parent Organized Districts and one - on - one family support.
These popular classes are available in hospitals, clinics, teen parent programs, postpartum depression clinics, father support groups, military bases and child abuse prevention programs in hundreds of communities across North America... and around the world.
According to a 2008 UNICEF report, the Alliance's financial and programmatic support to vaccinate children around the world has helped prevent 2.9 million deaths since 2000 and decreased child mortality to less than 10 million per year for the first time ever.
We're supporting efforts to deliver lifesaving vaccines to children around the world and to develop affordable new vaccines for malaria, TB, HIV, and other diseases.
For this holiday season, I'm extremely grateful to be partnering with L'Occitane in their support for UNICEF to help thousands of children around the world.
In honor of the 60th anniversaries of WHITE CHRISTMAS and Danny Kaye's appointment as UNICEF's first Goodwill Ambassador, The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation and Paramount Pictures are proud to make a combined $ 100,000 donation to the U.S. Fund for UNICEF * to support UNICEF's lifesaving work for children around the world.
In partnership Boston Children's hospital, this project is helping to educate doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals around the world in the use of life support technologies such as ventilation and dialysis machines by giving them access to interactive medical simulators.
This World Food Day (16 October 2011), find out why many children around the world do not have enough food to eat and how their communities are being supported to find more sustainable ways of growing food.Topics: World Food Day, Guatemala, food, malnutrition.Available in English and WWorld Food Day (16 October 2011), find out why many children around the world do not have enough food to eat and how their communities are being supported to find more sustainable ways of growing food.Topics: World Food Day, Guatemala, food, malnutrition.Available in English and Wworld do not have enough food to eat and how their communities are being supported to find more sustainable ways of growing food.Topics: World Food Day, Guatemala, food, malnutrition.Available in English and WWorld Food Day, Guatemala, food, malnutrition.Available in English and Welsh.
Meyers: Our goals include providing a media venue where people from all walks of life can have their voices heard in a safe, commercial - free, child - friendly environment; promoting positive role models; empowering young people to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world; bridging the digital divide and continuing to enrich this digital media archive with inspiring stories from around the globe; enlisting support from foundations, grants, and government agencies, corporations, and individuals so that this global learning project can continue to grow and provide a freely - accessible, online multi-media resource to educators and students around the world for decades to come.
For example, because of article 23, which defines the universal right to education, most children around the world who did not have the opportunity to enroll in a school prior to 1948 gained such access as UNESCO mobilized governments and international institutions to support the most dramatic educational expansion in the history of humanity.
In an effort to help their children and their schools succeed in the next academic year, millions of parents around the world are already involved in school foundations or PTA's to support teachers and administrators with their critical work of educating a fresh set of young minds.
Responsibility, problem solving, and cooperation support interpersonal intelligence that helps children get along with others and care for the world around them.
We look forward to continuing to support students, teachers, administrators, and policy makers around the world with our dedication to creating programs and products that foster the safety and well - being of children through social - emotional learning and development.
Whether here in our very neighborhood, a few states away or around the world, Fields Chrysler Jeep Dodge supports any and all efforts to care for children in need, and that's why we're proud to be a part of a company that puts the needs of Michigan children at the forefront of their philanthropic work.
Note: Regular readers of Kindle Nation Daily know that we've been thrilled to support our friends at WorldReader.org for the past couple of years in their very important work of bringing the magic and reading revolution of Kindle to children around the world.
As SPANA continues to grow our outreach funding for humane education programmes around the world, we look at our work in the west African nation of Liberia where SPANA - supported organisation LAWCS is working hard to change childrens» attitudes to working animals.
Officials at the U.N. Population Fund, which supports family planning programs around the world, said the new projections illustrated the importance of rich countries continuing to help poorer ones to ensure that couples have no more children than they want.
Supporting education for all children around the world can reap enormous gains in health care, equality, agricultural productivity, and economic growth.
Dear Mr. Kelly, By following the political policies that you support, millions of children around the world will die.
«The contributions came in from everywhere around the world, around the globe, celebrities, children with lemonade stands, and the outpouring of compassion, generosity and support has been one word: awe - inspiring,» Christina Fischer, chair of the Broward Education Foundation, said.
Emerging Minds was overwhelmed with the support of many government and organisational representatives from around the world who shared stories about how the Australian COPMI national initiative online resources have influenced change in their own region and are being used to support children, families and professionals.
It identifies the capacity of children to shape their own lives as they grow, while also being shaped and supported by the world around them.
Learn about our work with governments and NGOs around the world to support young children and their teachers.
ZERO TO THREE MARCH 2018 VOL 38 NO 4 ZERO TO THREE JOURNAL Taking a Global View on Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families IN THIS ISSUE Supporting Parents Around the World to Provide Nurturing Care A Worldwide Focus on Mental Health Inclusive Early Childhood Development for Children With Disabilities Changing the Global Mindset on Fathers Taking a Global View on Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families www.zerotothree.org/journal ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Around the World With ZERO TO THREE: A Sample of Global Engagement by Members of the Board, Academy Fellows, and Staff
Supporting children to explore the world safely, making sure that they are eating and sleeping well and establishing boundaries to assist self - control may have parents rushing around a lot, especially if they also have other children in their care.
I HAVE This is about children knowing they belong somewhere, have a place in the world and have people around to support them.
As a result, they may indeed make agreements around property division, child support and alimony which may not be in line with the actual needs and realities of their new financial worlds post-divorce.
It refers to the expression of a child's feelings about herself, others, and the situations she will face in the world around her as well as gaining control of her bodily functions, learning to focus, and pay attention in the context of nurturing support by familiar caregivers (Mackrain, Golani & Kairone, 2008).
Almost 20 years later, their vision continues to be a reality in communities around the world, as we work to grow awareness and support for parents and child wellbeing.
We hope this is just the beginning of an ongoing dialogue among those who care about and support young children and their families around the world.
Father's involvement really seems to encourage a child's exploration of the world around them and gives them confidence in their ability to solve problems, providing financial support.
Your email today can help us mobilize support around the world for the most urgent needs of children.
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