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We are also providing cash assistance to eligible poor families on the condition that pregnant mothers and children avail themselves of preventive health care, and that children regularly attend school.
So, by avoiding illness, infants have a greater chance of growing into healthier children who are able to attend school and become more productive members of society.
Indeed, several weeks ago, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper spoke strongly against the lack of action in Sri Lanka, and indicated that if the next Commonwealth meeting is held there, as currently planned, he will not attend.
Across the OECD, students who attend preschool for one year or more scored significantly higher (30 points) on its Programme for International Student Assessment reading tests than those who did not.
When a child doesn’t attend school, their absence perpetuates the cycle of poverty in families, communities, and countries.
After work, she would attend night school to become an international accountant.
This means that broad swaths of the population don’t finish high school, don’t attend college, and don’t become empowered citizens of their own countries and the world.
But Donilon returned home empty-handed: Putin will attend neither the G-8 summit on May 18-19 at Camp David, nor the NATO summit in Chicago on May 20-21, despite Obama’s effort to accommodate Russia by moving the G-8 summit from Chicago.
Forced out of their homes in the biggest refugee crisis since World War II, they have now become the innocent victims of a broken promise that they would, even as refugees, be able to attend school.
As for Obama, he will first visit Japan, and, while at APEC, will also attend the first US-ASEAN Summit.
I regularly attend advertising industry events and raise this issue, and the answers I get are something along the lines of “what people don’t know won't hurt them,” or “all we’re doing is giving them ads better targeted to their interests.”
The absence of a framework that addresses the factors driving migration leaves politicians free to attend to their domestic markets, with little thought to the negative political and economic externalities that may be wreaking havoc outside their borders.
Desperate for more education, this fall she plans to attend graduate school for computer science – in China, not America.
The Indian state’s fundamental inability to redress grievances, correct mistakes, and attend to its citizens’ most basic needs has given rise to a ruinous level of corruption, as citizens, despairing of obtaining their due fairly, try to buy it instead.
But, thanks to their school and teacher, they are able to keep pace with their peers in the mainstream primary school that they attend.
In most developing countries, educators don’t even know how many children with disabilities are absent from school, let alone what those who do attend might need in the classroom.
As students like Ali Moussa and Mahmoud can attest, developing countries have worked hard to give more students with disabilities the opportunity to attend school.
Campaigners from groups fighting child marriage, child trafficking, and child labor, and from groups demanding children’s right to attend school, free of intimidation, have united in the past few days to show the strength of global opinion in favor of universal education and a world free of child slavery.
In Nigeria alone, six million girls do not attend school; around the world, ten million girls each year become child brides, and seven million school-age girls are full-time workers.
Some 75% of the population of the Gaza Strip receives some form of UNRWA assistance, and 60% of Gaza’s children from first to ninth grade attend UNRWA schools.
Like many of the young refugees in Lebanon, Dilan and Ahmad are losing hope that they will ever be able to attend school again.
Under a new law, unvaccinated children are not permitted to attend school, and parents of unvaccinated children can be fined for their children’s non-attendance.
At the heart of the challenge facing the more than 50,000 participants expected to attend is the need for innovative new approaches to addressing global challenges.
The hope is that the summit, which United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will attend, will improve the world’s chances of meeting the goal, featured in the upcoming post-2015 development agenda, that every child have access to pre-primary, primary, and secondary education by 2030.
And free mid-day meals at school are a powerful incentive to children from poor families to attend school and stay there.
Few go on to finish high school or attend university.
Moreover, it is difficult to separate statistically the educational value added by the school from the characteristics of the families whose children attend.
In Chile today, 53% of all children attend voucher-financed private schools (many of them until recently run for profit), despite the top-up fees they often charge.
More recently, Obama has had to cancel trips abroad to attend to domestic crises.
Free and compulsory education, though essential, will be insufficient to ensure that all school-age children can actually attend school.
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