Sentences with phrase «with rural poverty»

However, progress has been uneven across the world, with rural poverty and malnutrition remaining in some countries.

This morning, having just returned again from Uganda and dealing with the rural poverty and lack of clean water, I drove past the dumb sign again and found myself wishing it was a Coca - Cola sign also!

Not exact matches

Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

There is a reason the New Iranian Cinema is mainly concerned with rural life and the poverty shacks of south Tehran.

In short, the Palestine of Jesus» day was a mildly stratified, largely rural, society in which are to be discerned all the familiar social forces of political and ecclesiastical dominance, religious formalism, extremes of poverty and wealth, economic insecurity, racial cleavage, an acceptance of the status quo with mixed reactions of acquiescence and revolt.

It's a survival story that deals frankly with the realities of rural poverty, and there are moments I suspect many readers will find disturbing.

Scott is the Executive Director of Plant With Purpose (formerly Floresta), a Christian nonprofit organization that reverses deforestation and poverty by transforming the lives of the rural poor in six countries.

Plant With Purpose began work in the Dominican Republic 27 years ago after recognizing the connection between deforestation and rural poverty, and has responded by developing a holistic program of watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Christian discipleship.

«And I call for the private sector to step up and to embrace the opportunity to work with governments in forested countries to produce raw materials in a way that tackles rural poverty while reducing emissions from deforestation.»

Not only did Honduras suffer the highest deforestation rate in the Western hemisphere from 2005 to 2010, it has the worst income disparity in all of Latin America, with one in five rural people living in extreme poverty.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 24 percent of rural children lived in poverty and 686,000 rural households with children were food insecure in 2014.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

* A note about prices: I am located in a rural area with a high level of poverty.

Rural poverty is different from urban poverty: I have friends who struggle to find their monthly rent but who distrust welfare so much that they augment the food they grow with poaching and road kill just to help make ends meet.

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released today.

Dr Bawumia know very well that part of the reasons why the Zimbabwean people are languishing in poverty with low infrastructure development in many parts of its rural zones is this wholesale handing out of the country's mineral resources over the last three decades costing the country millions of jobs.Is Dr Bawumia aware that Zimbabwe has runout of alluvial diamonds at a time when the country has been allowed to sell its gems on the global market.

«I am so excited for the vision we have laid out: investments in high tech development that could put central New York on the map for leadership in unmanned systems, recognizing the rural parts of our community with investments in agriculture, tackling hard problems like poverty.»

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released by the state Association of School Business Officials.

Identifying poverty and a race - wide issue, not just affecting inner - city or minority communities, as it was mentioned 62 percent of poverty in Erie County takes place outside the City of Buffalo; with the Rural Outreach Center (ROC) having been established in East Aurora as a central area of assistance; to go along with the Department of Social Services utilizing University at Buffalo student interms to assist those in the community.

Unfortunately for the atmosphere and the forests themselves, working out an agreement with the tropical timber industry will be far easier than eliminating rural poverty.

Yes, there are opportunities, most with decent pay, good benefits, and superb job security, and mostly in high - poverty urban areas (although rural areas are also underserved).

Moreover, unsustainable land use practices, coupled with the effects of climate change, lead to land degradation, falling agricultural yields, rise in rural poverty, land abandonment, forced migration and conflict.

The WPF had to rely on a study of poverty stricken rural Chadians with inadequate and restricted diets to construct this argument.

Given the title «looper,» young Joe (Joseph Gordon - Levitt) arrives in a rural field outside of the poverty - stricken city every day and waits for his victims to appear, executing them with a quick shot from his enormous gun (referred to here as his «blunderbuss») and tossing them into an incinerator.

Together with development partners, PPM also fights rural household poverty through its project Fighting Rural Household Poverty through Piggery (FRrural household poverty through its project Fighting Rural Household Poverty through Piggery (poverty through its project Fighting Rural Household Poverty through Piggery (FRRural Household Poverty through Piggery (Poverty through Piggery (FRHPP).

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

The vision was ambitious, especially for a rural state with a high poverty rate.

They explore complex contemporary issues and problems facing education and society — including issues of community - focused leadership development for high - poverty rural schools, college access and student success, sexual violence, cross cultural counseling, community college leadership, and state and institutional policies that affect children and adult learning — with a view toward solutions that will make a real, positive difference for students, teachers, counselors, administrators, policy makers, and communities.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

JENSEN LEARNING («Teaching and Engaging with Poverty in Mind» 3 Days) • Reading First State Grants (Title I, Part B1) • Improving Teacher Quality (Title II, Part A) • Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged (Title I, Part A) • Rural and Low - Income Schools Program (Title VI, Part B2) • Alaska Native Education (Title VII, Part C) • Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) / Special Education State Grants

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

This report examines the extent to which teachers who are not fully certified are disproportionately assigned to teach in high - poverty schools, schools with high proportions of students of color, English learners, or students with disabilities, and schools located in rural or urban areas.

ASCD believes that to close the achievement gap, all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

In Mississippi, where more than 56 percent of students attend rural schools, Title I funding could be cut by $ 7 million, with the largest cuts taking place in five high - poverty Mississippi Delta districts.

This is especially the case in isolated rural locations and places with high concentrations of children in poverty and children of black, Native American, or non-white Hispanic descent.

Teaching students from diverse settings or with specialized needs (urban, rural, ELL, high - poverty, students w / disabilities).

ASCD believes that all underserved populations — high - poverty students, students with special learning needs, students of different cultural backgrounds, nonnative speakers, and urban and rural students — must have access to

Diverse student teachings experiences including at least two of the following: rural setting, urban setting, ELL students, schools with high - poverty, students with disabilities, instruction on social and emotional learning practices.

Oklahoma administers a statewide, federally funded GEAR UP program, which partners with rural school districts with high poverty rates and low college - going rates to provide academic planning, mentoring, financial aid planning and college application assistance.

The article states that «one in four rural children live in poverty, and of the 50 U.S. counties with the highest child - poverty rates, 48 are rural.»

IARSS has proven experience with high poverty, large surban school districts as well as small rural community school districts.

The area is made up of small, rural towns with high unemployment, high poverty, and low educational attainment.

Holtz: Yes, I believe the current state funding formula is «adequate;» however, I believe we could focus more of our efforts within the current funding formula on rural transportation costs along with additional support for our high poverty districts.

From the nefarious achievement gaps, to the racial isolation in our increasingly segregated schools; from the digital divide that results in kids not having access to computers, to the poverty gulf that results in kids not having homes; from boys» reading difficulties and girls» problems with math, to the disparities among rural, suburban, and urban school needs — these gaps present baffling problems.

While it remains most acute in urban core neighborhoods with intergenerational poverty, 31 hunger is increasing in suburban locales and is most prevalent in rural Southern locales.32 Since wages have been stagnant or eroding in many industries, two - thirds of families experiencing food insecurity have at least one working adult, and many might initially appear to be maintaining a middle - class lifestyle.33

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

In Oklahoma, a mostly rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.

The Green Belt Movement began with the premise that degraded environment and poverty create a downward spiral for rural subsistence farmers, and in particular rural women.

Daniel, who's risen from rural poverty to a wealthy but soulless and troubled London existence, finds himself still obsessed with the three sisters and haunted by the summer of 1967.

Shelter access is the first line of defense against abandonment, and, in rural areas with chronic poverty, affordable spay / neuter services are the only line of defense against unwanted litters.