Sentences with phrase «young volunteers who»

«Maggie and her team are role models for young volunteers who want to help animals in need.»

«I have young volunteers who come into my office and shadow me, I have college students who come into my office and shadow me.

Valparaiso University's venerable president, O.P. Kretzmann, responded positively to our proposal that the university send annually a team of students for year - long service, so each of our churches hosted young volunteers who helped us expand our work with children and their families.

«During my time in Bohol there was a large number of young volunteers who had shown up spontaneously, without much thought about it, and most had never had a significant volunteer experience previously.

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«I'm Chantelle,» says a dark - haired young woman, one of several recruits who volunteer to stand and share.

For example, one program awards young adults who have made an impact within their communities through volunteering and fundraising efforts with the «Youth Ambassador» award.

Back in the late 1990s, Dotzler had been a young college dropout working in a market research firm in Austin when he joined Mozilla's community of «bug reporters» — people who volunteered to download the latest prototype of the product and submit technical reports of what needed fixing.

«I have the utmost respect and deepest appreciation for the young women who bravely volunteer to serve our country, but I am adamantly opposed to coercing America's daughters to sign up for the Selective Service at 18 years of age,» Sessions said in a statement.

Also, many of the employees who volunteered for the study were among the youngest in the company.

She is also a volunteer business mentor with the Prince's Trust, providing mentoring and support to young people with a viable business idea who have joined The Prince's Trust Enterprise Programme.

Childline has reported that it only has the resources to assist three out of every four young people who ask for help and has called for more volunteers to come forward.

Volunteers held 2,061 counselling sessions - a 9 per cent increase - with actively suicidal young people from across the UK, who had taken initial steps to take their own lives, such as writing a note, giving away meaningful items or planning their death.

Young people who volunteer or participate in certain kinds of service are more civically engaged as adults, and there are movements afoot to increase these kinds of experiences among youth.

Among those trying to live more deliberately is a young man who leaves a lucrative position at Microsoft in order to do what he has always wanted — be an actor and help others by volunteering, especially as a Big Brother.

John was a young man with but a year or two of college — very different from the dozens of highly educated, articulate white volunteers working under him, who often chafed at his direction.

Sitting with a group of adolescents and answering their questions about your marriage might sound scary but it is actually a really life - giving and enriching experience for the couples who volunteer and the young people are often amazed and inspired to see that marriages can last and that love can grow through a life time.

He is a young Catholic graduate in education who evolved from a quiet and gentle helper on UCE outreaches to an organizer of other volunteers, Anglican and Catholic, as they fan out in the Kasese diocese of northwestern Uganda.

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

But suddenly the young man who says that he set his watch and dorm - room clock 10 minutes ahead to try to stay on schedule, who served as the Chiefs» co-captain, who spent time volunteering at last summer's Special Olympics and who had just appeared as one of nine varsity athletes on the university president's Christmas card, was being described as the instigator of a scuffle during an intrasquad scrimmage — a bad actor no longer wanted by his coach or teammates.

As a teenager, she may have time to volunteer at a nursing home or she may have the skills to tutor younger children who struggle in school.

The book delves into how competition can be incredibly life enriching for young athletes when it's handled properly by volunteer coaches and parents; and how it can be ultra destructive and smother the fun when adults forget who youth sports are really for.

With 1,200 resident - volunteers, it now serves as many as 19,000 breakfasts a day and 25,000 lunches to children who may come from blocks away, their younger siblings in tow.

Liz is an active member of her synagogue's Social Action Committee, and volunteers with Philly Friendship Circle, a group connecting children and young adults who have special needs with neurotypical teens and young adults through social activities and friendship.

A mom who was traveling with her young daughter, seated in front of the mom of the twins, volunteered to hold and care for one of the babies during the flight.

The team at Operation Smile consist of medical volunteers who provide free physical exams and reconstructive surgery for children and young adults with cleft lips, palates and other facial deformities.

The young and the energetic Konkomba Youth Group, who have volunteered to preach to their people about the good things President John Dramani Mahama is doing and how important the NDC as a party recognize the entire Kokomba community have said, the President has exposed the NPP and their Northern Regional Chairman Bugri Naabu for the lies they have spewed across the Konkomba communities just to win their votes

Most of those volunteers are young people who aren't card - carrying Labour members.

But I had one young and eager volunteer who discovered the perfect tonic to this problem.

«We have today suspended the workfare scheme in Poundland but continue with volunteer work experience for young people who wish to work in retail.

You get young volunteers, not just millennials, but boy scouts and girl scouts and others who want to help.»

Volunteers at the organisations say young mums, women fleeing domestic violence, families affected by welfare cuts, and asylum seekers are the typical people who need help.

«Governors are well meaning volunteers who now have control over millions of pounds of taxpayers» money and public assets, the school workforce and the life chances of children and young people.

PACE is an organization founded by parent volunteers who represent each of New York City's Citywide G&T schools and programs: The Anderson School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Brooklyn School of Inquiry, NEST + m on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, STEM Academy at PS 85Q (grades 2 - 5 in 2015/16) and The 30th Avenue School (Q300)(grades K - 2, 6 & 7 in 2015/16) in Queens, & TAG Young Scholars in East Harlem, Manhattan.

«You are never too young to contribute to your neighborhood and to your community,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «We need more young people like the Bronx Youth Corps student volunteers, students who want to be engaged in the world around them and who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

Furthermore, garnering results — particularly from younger volunteers, who may be likeliest to benefit because they've aged the least — will take so long that by the time results are in, those who began the study will be dead.

The study enrolled 36 men and 36 women from two age groups — «young» volunteers who were 18 - 30 years old and «older» volunteers who were 65 - 80 years old — into three different exercise programs: one where the volunteers did high - intensity interval biking, one where the volunteers did strength training with weights, and one that combined strength training and interval training.

Image - manipulation software morphs the face of a woman (top left) into one (bottom) who looks like one of the young male volunteers (top right).

• Extra: Instead of testing two random groups of volunteers, try testing four groups of volunteers — two who are relatively young and two who are relatively old (with half of the younger people and half of the older people each receiving the plain lists and the other halves getting the lists with the mnemonic device).

At the outset, we set up a volunteer Advisory Board comprised of top neuroscientists who contacted university and institutional department chairs and asked them to suggest promising young post-docs who might be interested in glaucoma and had a willingness to collaborate.

One study with 16 young, healthy female volunteers who fasted for 48 hours had elevated cortisol levels, suggesting fasting could create additional stress.

The study involved 33 healthy young people who volunteered to stay awake for 42 hours and have their mental sharpness tracked along the way.

While these studies suggest beneficial effects, they both studied healthy young adults (in their early 20s1, 2), had very small sample sizes (one study had 10 participants2, the other had 201), and used volunteers as study participants.1, 2 All of these factors decreases the chances that the results can be generalized to all people who engage in exercise.

Since 2007, volunteer yoga teachers have been going into community facilities and detention centres in Southern Ontario to work with young men and women who are overcoming histories of abuse, neglect, incarceration, gang - involvement, addiction, marginalization and other factors that have led them to be identified as «at risk.»

The reviewer might suggest that young singles continue to do what they have always done: get off the computer, volunteer, go to a church, go dancing, build a network of like - minded people who will introduce you to other like - minded people, and meet Mr. / Miss Right face - to - face, in a context that you will both remember with fondness.

Their search makes sense to Biderman, who volunteers that, while now married, he would have made for an excellent sugar daddy in his younger days.

Sixteen year old Katniss Everdeen volunteers in her younger sister's place to enter the games, and is forced to rely upon her sharp instincts as well as the mentorship of drunken former victor Haymitch Abernathy when she's pitted against highly - trained Tributes who have prepared for these Games their entire lives.

Platoon centers on Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen), a young volunteer soldier who begins his year of combat near the border of Cambodia in September 1967.

It tells the dark tale of a 16 - year - old girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, age 21, played a similar role as an Ozark girl in the Winter's Bone), who volunteers to take the place of her fragile younger sister (Willow Shields) who is selected by a lottery to be the teenage girl contestant for her District 12 in a country - wide annual fight - to - death event.

girl named Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence, age 21, played a similar role as an Ozark girl in the Winter's Bone), who volunteers to take the place of her fragile younger sister -LRB-

Touchback sounds like it blends the Dennis Quaid baseball pic The Rookie (down - on - his - luck sports type gets a second chance) with 17 Again (lead gets transported back to a younger version of himself and starts to change his life decisions) as it finds Brian Presley as a small - town farmer / volunteer fire fighter who can't stop dreaming of the moment his football career was cut short by an injury.