Sentences with phrase «with alleviating poverty»

Fair Trade (generically and as trademarked by various organizations) is primarily concerned with alleviating poverty through greater equity in international trade.

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He has led the One Campaign, which seeks additional spending to alleviate global poverty, and worked with Bob Geldof to arrange Live 8, the concurrent benefit concerts in all of the countries of the Group of Eight, or G8 (the world's eight largest economies).

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

Congressman Ryan then laid out an approach to alleviating poverty and empowering the poor that seemed to me entirely congruent with the core Catholic social ethical principles of subsidiarity and solidarity.

Waste can have a very high contribution to providing electricity to citizens and alleviating energy poverty, especially in countries with low access to electricity and reduced electricity consumption per capita.

The Closing Rice Yield Gaps in Asia With Reduced Environmental Footprint (CORIGAP) aims to improve food security and gender equity, and alleviate poverty through optimizing productivity and sustainability of irrigated rice production systems.

Additionally Food Banks Canada works with governments to advocate for effective policy change that will alleviate poverty in Canada.

So poverty is not something to be pitied or alleviated, but condemned as sin and the notion that poverty is a result of inequality or greed and needs to be addressed by the state is not something that sits well with the Protestant work ethic.

Due to this inglorious picture, the Region has unfortunately assumed that any project, national or local, sited in it should be with the intent of alleviating its chief enemy, poverty.

«As a city with one of the highest rates of concentrated poverty in the United States, we need to focus our efforts on projects that can alleviate the pernicious effects of poverty, creating meaningful jobs and improving the quality of life in our neighborhoods.»

The government's plans to increase the sanctions on benefit recipients will do nothing to alleviate poverty without the creation of more jobs with decent pay, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

He says his vision will help alleviate the city's long - standing issues with poverty, public safety, vacant properties, and poor school performance.

«As an organization dedicated to alleviating poverty, Project H.O.M.E. is proud to be working with FreshDirect and others to makesure everyone in our city is able to feed their families this Thanksgiving,» said S. Mary Scullion, executive director of Project H.O.M.E.

He argued that the centre which was established with the motive of alleviating poverty has not lived up to expectation.

In an effort to alleviate poverty in Ghana, True Moringa works directly with farmers in the region to cultivate its line of sulfate - and paraben - free oils.

They partner with over 30 + artisan groups from around the world that are working in various communities to provide dignified jobs, pay fair wages, provide education, alleviate poverty, rescue human trafficking victims, provide a home for orphans, and SO MUCH MORE.

Finally, he writes, we have to combine school improvement with the use of community resources to alleviate the effects of poverty and racial segregation.

Meanwhile, defenders of the current system view all this talk about the achievement gap with suspicion — asserting, as they do, that schooling is hopelessly intertwined with conditions in the family and community, and thus that we can't expect results to improve much until we alleviate poverty and racism.

Practically we have interviewed a wide array of stakeholders with diverse backgrounds, needs and opinions towards transforming lives and alleviating poverty.

As its name implies, the Head Start program was developed to enhance the experiences of children in low - income families prior to school entry, with the goal of alleviating the negative effects of growing up in poverty.

He believes it will be necessary to engage in a concerted effort on many fronts and urges that we combine school improvement with community resources to alleviate the effects of poverty and racial segregation.

Indeed, with the collapse of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s, the area experienced a rapid onset of poverty and high unemployment, with few public resources available to alleviate economic distress.

At the end of CowParade, the majority of the Edinburgh herd will go to market — a Gala Auction, with 75 per cent of the net proceeds from the auction going to the following charities: OneCity Trust, tackling social exclusion through a range of community projects, and VETAID, working to alleviate poverty through sustainable farming in developing countries.

With two billion of the world's population living on less than $ 2 a day, alleviating crushing poverty and the health, social and environmental ills that accompany it, is everyone's moral responsibility.

Natural dyes, local ingredients and cottage industries abound, with several local brands working hard to alleviate poverty and preserve Balinese culture.

Along with alleviating energy poverty, a prime challenge at this moment should be alleviating «information poverty.»

That said, helping out with clean development does more than just avoid emissions, it also helps with development and alleviates poverty.

Addressing energy poverty is a key step to alleviating poverty — with the I.E.A. noting that an additional 700 million people need to gain access to modern energy services by 2015 if the UN's millennium development poverty alleviation goal is to be met (halving world poverty).

To help reduce global economic inequality along with greenhouse gas emissions from its corporate travel, travel giant Expedia, Inc. has invested in four community - owned carbon offset projects from the global nonprofit Carbon Offsets to Alleviate Poverty (COTAP).

Welcome to Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty («COTAP»), a California non-profit corporation (together with its officers, directors, agents, employees, partners and their respective affiliates, collectively, «COTAP»).

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 pPoverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to fight both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 ppoverty by connecting their carbon emissions with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

Importantly, with a relatively small commitment, financial or technical, Company X could trigger a movement that helps alleviate poverty, improve health, fight climate change, end «haze» pollution, and conserve resources and biological diversity.

Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) specializes in connecting your carbon footprint with certified forestry projects in least - developed countries which create life - changing income for smallholder farmers who live on less than $ 2 per day.

About Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) Launched in 2011, Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP) empowers individuals and organizations to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their carbon emissions with accredited carbon projects which create life - changing income streams for the world's poorest people.

We are partnering with Carbon Offsets To Alleviate Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest Poverty (COTAP.org) to empower individuals to address both climate change and global poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest poverty by connecting their unavoidable carbon footprints with accredited forestry projects in least developed countries, which create wages for the world's poorest people.

In fact, all of the complexities and imperfections are exactly why COTAP is needed to connect individuals with the market - based, poverty - alleviating tool of forestry carbon credits.

For the next five years, legal researcher Yvonne Peters, CCD, and Dr. Michael J. Prince, University of Victoria, Principal Investigators for this strategic initiative, will lead a team of disability community and academic researchers dedicated to bringing forward recommendations and plans for alleviating the disproportionate poverty of Canadians with disabilities.