Sentences with phrase «urban poor in»

Also the city of Cagayan d'Oro, the Philippines, assists associations of the urban poor in the establishment of allotment gardens on privately owned land, which proves to be a successful strategy.

An important aspect of strategic urban planning is related to the participation of the urban poor themselves in the analysis of the situation, in the definition of priorities and in action planning and implementation.

Moe finds that close to 80 percent of the urban poor in his survey have no clue what vouchers are.

She viewed the suffering of the urban poor in apocalyptic terms and vowed to usher in a different realm.

For example, `' Low levels of food consumption and malnutrition are also hitting the urban poor in rich countries.

Dissatisfied with the results of most organizations helping the urban poor in the mid-1990s, Canada launched an experiment, an effort to reach all the kids in a 24 - block zone of New York City — he called it the Harlem Children's Zone — and give them education, social, and medical help starting at birth.

Not exact matches

Bush says many fellows who come to work in the US from other countries are surprised by the systemic problems they encounter in poor urban areas.

China introduced a tiering system for its cities in the 1980s according to urban and infrastructure development needs, and has since become a proxy for societal classification, i.e., Tier 1 cities are the «wealthiest», whereas Tier 4 are the «poorest» (on a per capita basis).

At a moment when the Republicans are talking about entitlement reform, and Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is proposing to triple the rents of some of the poorest people in the country, the sight of big banks reporting surges in profits that were fuelled by tax cuts raises alarming moral questions.

Also from the FHWA, we used the percentage of rural and urban interstate miles in poor condition.

The index doesn't reflect changes in the quality of items over time and can't tell us much about the spending patterns of the poor, or of people living outside of urban areas.

A liberal US Jew using his status as a Jew to sweep into Israel, bash the security measures while bemoaning the status of the poor Palestnians and then go back to his Ivory Tower in a large urban liberal city where his biggest concern is whether the Starbucks will get his latte order correct.

Amy L. Sherman is Director of Urban Ministry at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcomingin Charlottesville, Va., and author of Restorers of Streets to Dwell In: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcomingIn: Effective Church - Based Ministry Among the Poor (Crossway, forthcoming).

But in present American society, etiquette rites are much more elaborate among the young and the poor (for example, in the dress codes, precedence systems, gestures of greeting, and modes of address in urban street gangs) than among the rich, who have increasingly abandoned the very aspects of etiquette that are of vital concern on the streets.

And if we compare the condition of the poor in urban slums with that of the poor on subsistence farms, my own judgment is that there is more loss than gain.

It has been the means for the transformation of many socially marginal groups in the U.S., from poor rural whites in Methodist and Assemblies of God churches to rural and dislocated urban blacks in Baptist and Church of God in Christ churches.

I have went the last several years working in ministry to the very poor in an urban inner city, and have owned a small business to support myself and my family.

As we move into the»90s with an economic structure that is killing poor people, a «war against drugs» that is a racist war against the urban poor, an unapologetic «post-feminist» contempt for women and girls and a mounting ecological crisis, we will need as much as ever to be able to create liberation in the midst of suffering.

Since 1806 Mexico has suffered military intervention at least ten times by U.S. troops, and if there are no interventions in the offing now, perhaps it is largely because the U.S. has been shoring up the rule of one party, which wins rigged elections and then fails to challenge U.S. investment and business practices that increase human suffering for campesinos and urban poor there.

Perceiving a stark and growing contrast between respectable middle - class families and the «teeming broods» of new immigrants in the urban centers, progressive leaders turned to eugenic science to control what seemed the otherwise uncontrollable plight of the poor.

Jack is a poor speaker, Wilfred's decisions are usually bad, and much of the order seems mired in a complacency that may cause it to fold — the success of the retreat clearly is due almost exclusively to Urban.

Ministers cast about for responses to displaced farm families, to the deepening misery of the rural and urban poor, to the epidemic use of drugs in every strata of society, to half a million homeless children; they seek techniques for church growth, approaches to spiritual nurture and meaningful worship.

He has even shared with the rural peasant class in his denouncement against the Herodian urban culture 84 that deprived the poor of their means of livelihood and marginalized them even as the urban centers enjoyed the fruit of their labor.

Mitchell, pastor and founder of Atlanta's Urban Foursquare Church, knows the day is coming soon when his congregation most likely will have to abandon its home in one of the city's poorest neighborhoods.

Even now the problem of developing a sustainable agriculture in order that future generations may eat does not grip the mind as does the problem of justice for the urban poor.

Sally Gaze, a rural rector who chairs the national Fresh Expressions rural round table, wrote in a recent article: «Rural Christians can sometimes feel that they are the poor relation compared to larger urban and suburban churches.

Now this has to be beyond window - dressing of doing drive - by ministry «to» and «among» the urban poor, immigrants, and the rich, racially - ethnic diversity of the global church present in urban centers.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcIn countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etcin using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

Here we find the stories of the Jungshindae (the «comfort women»), the war widows, and the workers, peasants and urban poor, exposing the nature of the political powers in the modern Korea.

In fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New YorIn fact, these conditions are worse today for the black poor, the one third of us who reside primarily in the urban centers like Chicago and New Yorin the urban centers like Chicago and New York.

So Hugh ends up interacting with the poor, in that urban location, on a sort of professional basis.

Mail outs in urban areas with incorrect data specifically designed to mislead and misrepresent poor / elderly 9.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

In poor urban areas, limited access to land for the production of food is another challenge.

The author has followed some of urban America's poorest young people through their secondary school careers over some years, tracking their rocky road towards higher education and revealing how their teachers are compensating for the missing investment in their early years by fostering what Tough sums up as «character».

Crappy food is cheaper (because of corporate welfare, supported by conservative politicians) and more easily available in poor urban neighborhoods; therefore choices are being influenced by corporations.

Envision a child born in a poor urban area.

Although affluent and urban women began having their babies in hospitals, however, medically underserved populations, such as rural women with limited access to hospitals and poor women who couldn't afford to give birth in the hospitals, continued to give birth at home.

The Atma Jaya Medical Faculty research group looked at the treatment and advice given by physicians for children with acute diarrhoea in a poor and densely populated urban area of Jakarta (the capital city of Indonesia).

But mothers in urban, poor and minority areas often face unique challenges as well: the sheer logistics of finding time to breastfeed, perhaps while juggling single motherhood and working a service job where it's difficult to find a private, clean place to use a breastpump, for example.

May 1993 — One of the first major differences between HFA and the HFSC model emerged in 1993 when the original developers of the HFA model realized that the program would be more effective if it was flexible enough to fit in any community, whether urban or rural, rich or poor.

Geoffrey Canada has an ambitious prescription to help poor urban kids in Harlem, first by ignoring vexing political and social question about the origins of the cycle of poverty.

In today's vernacular, urban relates to inner city and urban dress is associated with the poorer sections of big American cities.

Impact of counselling on exclusive breast - feeding practices in a poor urban setting in Kenya: a randomized controlled trial

In wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually availablIn wealthier urban and suburban areas, most voters will be online and a majority will have broadband access, but even in far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually availablin far - flung rural areas or poorer parts of cities email at least is usually available.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

Is there a real doubt that the vast majority of urban poor vote democratic whether it is in their interest or not?

It allows rich people to own single family homes in the middle of urban centers while poorer people can't find a place to rent.

The biggest shares of foundation aid go to school systems in New York City and other urban and poor suburban areas.

Political scientists such as Danielle Resnick, Nic Cheeseman and Miles Larmer aver that Sata won by using a combination of populist messages which appealed to cross-ethnic, poor, urban voters with ethnically - motivated support in rural Bemba - speaking areas.