Sentences with phrase «thousands of school age children»

Schools and health centres are shutting down with thousands of school age children out of school.
The five islands that comprise Channel Islands National Park lie within 60 miles of over 18 million people, but trips to this American Galapagos aren't always possible for the thousands of school ages children in Ventura County and beyond.

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«The inequitable distribution of the national revenue; the disparity in the scale of salaries (some dispose of emoluments which are an insult to the poverty of the country, while the immense majority receives a miserable pittance); the fact that a bare two per cent of the active population owns seventy per cent of the arable land; the system of recruiting our agricultural laborers, who do not even enjoy legal status; the fact that hundreds of thousands of school - age children lack basic education; the disintegration of the family; the growing immorality everywhere — all this demands bold and definitive change.»
Placing a bed next to a window, using a hand me down crib and mini-blinds and drapery cords are just some of the things that cause thousands of injuries (even death) for school age children each year.
Currently, in her work with an NGO called Creative Associates, she is in South Sudan, where decades of war and neglect by the former government means tens of thousands of school - aged children are on the brink of becoming a lost generation.
Thousands of children aged nine to 11 in schools across the UK took part in the survey, designed by researchers from the University of Oxford working with a BBC project called BBC Terrific Scientific which aims to involve children directly in scientific research.
We know from our work with thousands of school - based cooking clubs across the country that cooking activities make an impact with children of all ages and abilities.
Indeed, before children even enter school they're exposed to thousands of subtle and not - so - subtle money lessons, so Mandell would like to see age - appropriate financial education beginning as early as kindergarten.
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