Sentences with phrase «when rural families»

When poor children are more likely to get sick and die than children in wealthier neighborhoods just across town; when rural families are more likely to go without clean water; when ethnic and religious minorities, or people with disabilities, or people of different sexual orientations are discriminated against or can't access education and opportunity — that holds all of us back.

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Notice the rural, working - class focus, as well as on the difficulties in being a man in full when all the key relational institutions — beginning with the family — are broken.

but it does happens mostly in rural area areas or at very poor communities where girls have no education but just work at their homes or farm fields or when families are poor and needed the marriage money to support the rest of kids they have..

I recall some twenty - three years ago when, as a young seminarian serving a congregation of tenant farm families in rural Virginia, one of my duties was to teach a class for high school students each Sunday morning.

This is a family favourite from when I was a little girl growing up in rural New Zealand, veganised from my mothers cookbook she complied of all her recipes, along with treasures from family and friends.

«When consumers enjoy our ice creams, they are also helping to sustain family farming, revitalize rural communities, and support a thriving regional food system.»

Today when you buy Tropical Traditions Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil, you are buying the highest quality coconut oil we have to offer, and it is still made by hand and benefiting families in the rural areas of the Philippines where the coconuts grow.

When my husband was young, his family lived in a rural setting with lots of space to roam.

When her family moved to a more rural area in Ohio, her focus shifted to diaper need awareness.

A third - generation farmer from rural New Jersey, she was planning to go into the family occupation when her life took an urban twist.

Regarding The Race to Save the Lord God Bird [Reviews, December]: I met Lord God woodpeckers in the early 1950s, when my family moved from southern to northern rural Louisiana.

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.

Today when you buy Tropical Traditions Virgin Coconut Oil, you are still buying a coconut oil made by hand and benefiting families in the rural areas of the Philippines where the coconuts grow.

This inventive thriller, about an African - American man who finds himself trapped amid sinister shenanigans when he visits his white girlfriend's family at their rural home, is exciting, funny and written and directed with surprisingly stylish flair by comic Jordan Peele of «Key and Peele» fame.

The feature is set in rural India, where a determined inventor upsets his family and invites talk of scandal when he tries to develop and market a low - cost sanitary pad with the goal of improving feminine hygiene and erasing the stigma around menstruation.

SYNOPSIS: Libby Day was only seven years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse.

A famous case in Amityville is still a while off for the Warrens when they're approached by Carolyn (Lili Taylor), mother of five girls, who begs for some paranormal assistance: It seems her family's rural home, recently occupied, is yielding far too many bumps in the night for the typical fixer - upper.

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

«I come from a rural background and an immigrant family, and I know the barriers that exist when pursuing higher education and work experiences,» she says.

When 42 - year - old Buddy Berry — whose family has lived in rural Eminence, Kentucky, for generations — took the reins of the Eminence Independent School District in 2010, he found his hometown district and its single school in a state of crisis.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

Hundreds of our communities across the «Black Belt» of the South still have never addressed the type of segregation that occurs when white families flock to private schools in majority - black small towns and rural communities.

When we reach author Cassie Beasley at her family's home in rural Georgia, it's 50 days until the release of her debut, Circus Mirandus... not that she's counting.

When he is found dead in the French Broad River of rural North Carolina, his teenaged stepsister, Jess, is sought for questioning by their family and the police.

But when Theresa ends up pregnant, Nora comes up with a plan that will resurface to alter the sisters» lives 50 years later — when Nora is the matriarch of a big Catholic family, and Theresa is a cloistered nun in rural Vermont.

When not working, Dr. Hovda lives in rural Minnesota with her family, six horses, four barn cats, one pampered house cat, three exceptional Welsh Corgis, and a herd of goldfish.

Set amidst idyllic Yorkshire countryside, the Railway Children is the story of a family who are forced to live near a train line in rural England, when their father is falsely imprisoned.

The family lived in rural Essex until moving to London when Whiteread was seven, where she remembers a house full of politics and art.

«Mum» was the word when it came to her latest initiative, the Peace Bomb Bracelet, a collaboration with artisan families in Naphia Village, Laos, and Rural Income Through Sustainable Energy (RISE), a project of the Swiss NGO, Helvetas.

PNB MetLife Bhavishya Plus, a rural life insurance plan, is specifically built with its waiver of premium benefit to address your family needs even when you won't be around.

Let me give you another area where our health system fails to support our rural, remote and regional families — when support is most necessary: when a new baby arrives.

When the Keokuk Planned Parenthood health center in rural Lee County closes, patients will be forced to drive nearly an hour to the next safety - net family planning provider.

-- When Social Grants were introduced into SA (it had the same effect as the Lesotho families receiving miners salaries) boom times for ourselves and other developers of shopping centres especially in rural towns and townships.

The family also says the company failed to encourage its associates to travel with partners when showing rural homes to prospective buyers or to set up preliminary meetings with prospects at company offices or public places.

And I saw it just a few weeks ago, when my family and I spent spring break with my paternal grandparents at their retirement community in rural Missouri.

Fortunately, we're now friends with the new owner, so we do get to visit it from time to time, and we love, love, love our new, rural surroundings, and living closer to family and friends, so we're both still really happy that we were able to purchase this (foreclosure) house when it dropped down, down, down into our price range.