Sentences with phrase «with young refugee»

I worked with young refugee students and one evening expressed the distress i felt at seeing their continued pain and suffering, even when in safety here.

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Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

The 16 Rohingya - 12 men, two women and two young girls - had traveled to Dhaka from Cox's Bazar, the district bordering Burma where refugee camps are overflowing with more than 620,000 Rohingya who have fled what the UN says is a campaign of ethnic cleansing by Burma's military.

For instance, organizations trying to assist Haitian and Salvadoran refugees to avoid repatriation, or organizations urging boycott of banks doing business with South Africa, or organizations counseling young people not to register for the draft, or organizations protesting increased military expenditures, or organizations demonstrating against nuclear power or against mineral exploration in wilderness areas, are all in danger of losing their tax exemptions for violating «public policy.»

Because it is so appealing, the story of Ruth is familiar to most people with a passing knowledge of the Bible; Ruth is a young Moabitess who marries a Jewish refugee in her land.

Sixty percent of Syrian refugees are young people who have experienced traumas we can't imagine: seeing a parent tortured or a sibling killed, watching entire city streets explode, fleeing from their homes or across borders in the dark of night, with shells flying over their heads or rebel soldiers chasing them.

... A young single mother trying to finish community college, and the baby swing that calmed her daughter so she could study... The refugee family whose limited beds were already filled with older children, the crib that kept their new baby safe... A grandfather able to transport his grandson safely with a car seat after being awarded custody of him as a result of his mother's mental illness...

This movement was dedicated to making life easier for children and youth (i.e. Young Carers) who provided care for family members with chronic conditions, substance abuse issues, mental health issues, and / or provided translation services for immigrant and refugee parents.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, specialist health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Infant and Young... Read More

In March, Karleen held workshops on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF - E) in London, Manchester and Paris, aimed at volunteers working with refugee families in Europe.

Some of Tenney's opponents said they came away surprised at the color they sometimes flashed — particularly when she spoke in support of the so - called dreamers — young immigrants who face deportation if DACA is rolled back, as the president has proposed — and her work with refugees.

A British aid worker kidnapped in north east Afghanistan last month has been freed after a dramatic SAS rescue mission authorised by Prime Minister David A former British aid worker Sarah Gayton, 41, from Chiswick, in west London, is now planning her wedding with a younger Syrian refugee after they fell in

The film opens with a shot of the corpse of a young boy, lying face - down on a Mediterranean beach after drowning when a boatload of Syrian refugees sank.

A natural companion piece to the director's 2011 immigrant tale, «Le Havre,» «The Other Side of Hope» follows a young Syrian refugee (Sherwan Haji) who finds himself in Helsinki, where he falls in with a group of Finnish restaurant workers whose misadventures have the relaxed, we're - all - in - this - together vibe of a Howard Hawks western.

An adaptation of the best - selling novel by Marcus Zusak (it spent over 280 weeks on the New York Times» bestseller list), the film stars Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson and «Monsieur Lazhar» youngster Sophie Nelisse, in the tale of a young girl, living outside Munich during WWII with her foster parents, who has to help hide a Jewish refugee in their home.

The material is perfect for a Oscar type film, with a young child who joins a group of refugees after the death of his parents.

She also did work with the non-profit organisation Right to Play, and with refugees, using sport and recreation as a means to connect with young people.

Through longitudinal qualitative data collected with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, we seek to understand how young people in conflict settings experience and explain migration decisions and the connection between those decisions and their views of and experiences with education.

The youth contributing to our Global Youth Voices collection has included affluent teens in Beijing along with the sons and daughters of coffee farmers in rural Ethiopia; young Burmese refugees in a Bangladesh border camp along with university students in cities across Hungary.

I am working with young teachers from Saudi Arabia who are organizing a boarding democratic school for Syrian refugee orphans in Turkey.

This group includes working families, young men of color, marginalized girls and young women, immigrants and refugees, undocumented youth and adults, opportunity youth, low - skilled adults, and individuals with significant disabilities or other barriers to employment or advancement.

Warner cunningly parses the undercurrents of hate and fear in today's multicultural metropolises by interleaving the spellbinding, time - warping tale of a seemingly mythological figure, Leto, a self - sacrificing mother and unwanted refugee, into a wickedly incisive contemporary plot involving a young man who claims to be in contact with the goddess of the displaced and disenfranchised whose name is, of course, Leto.

She lost both her husband and her youngest child on that journey, but the future held an extraordinary turn of events that would forever change her life - the arrival in the refugee camps of a cultured young Swiss man long fascinated with Tibet.

Based on Lai's personal experience and written in accessible, short free - verse poems, this first novel captures a young refugee's struggle with rare honesty.

The odd group of characters we meet at this roadside cafe in Oklahoma a wheelchair - bound Vietnam vet, a young Crow woman drifting nowhere, a lonely middle - aged widow, a Vietnamese refugee, a three - legged dog all suffer with their own particular pain and loss.

She is a professional member of the Alliance of Independent Authors and writes full time although she still fits in creative writing workshops with schools along with volunteering to teach reading to a group of young Myanmar refugees.

Among the young artists whom he wowed with his tales and teachings were the American Midwesterner David Smith, the Armenian refugee Arshile Gorky, and, in the 1930s, the very young Jackson Pollock, then a disciple of the regionalist Thomas Hart Benton.

A small group of young Karen refugees have been working with FRANK member artists for several years now, and continue to work with artist mentors to sharpen their artmaking skills.

Patient 7: In early July 2012, a young 24 year old women in Canada for 4 years, 35 weeks pregnant, arrived at a free refugee health care clinic crying, with severe abdominal pain.

Safra is dedicated to working with new immigrant families with young children and continues her career as a member of Ryerson University's Lifeline Syria supporting the sponsorship and settlement of Syrian refugee families.

It will prioritise research into: children who have experienced trauma; young people at risk of offending behaviour; carers — particularly those caring for someone with depression and anxiety; elderly Australians especially those in residential aged care; and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, refugees and other potentially vulnerable cultural minority groups.

More data are needed that focus specifically on the 10 — 14 age - group; on young adolescent males» experiences and needs; and on the most marginalized or vulnerable groups of very young adolescents, including refugees and other displaced people, LGBTQ adolescents, out - of - school adolescents, adolescents exposed to transactional sex, those living with HIV and those with disabilities.

Victorian Settlement Planning Committee Victorian Settlement Planning Committee has developed guidelines for services and organisations working with young people from refugee backgrounds: Good practice principles: Guide for working with refugee young people.

Victorian Settlement Planning Committee has developed guidelines for services and organisations working with young people from refugee backgrounds: Good practice principles: Guide for working with refugee young people.

He has worked with the homeless, refugees and offenders, and at - risk young people as well as young people from private schools in Melbourne.

Human rights principles are, of course, designed to ensure that Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, refugees, asylum - seekers and new migrants, people with disability or mental illness, women, the elderly, young people, people of faith, gay men and lesbians, people experiencing homelessness, detainees and prisoners, people living in remote and rural areas and, indeed, all who suffer disadvantage have their inherent dignity respected and do not experience discrimination.