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The organizers say that the villagers, upon seeing the story of Budrus documented in a film, felt that there were indeed people following what they were doing, that people cared.
Half the villagers were chosen to get contraceptives.
When these villagers claimed their freedom, the slaveholders burned down all of their houses.
In rural Uganda, Paul Bolton and his colleagues, using villagers, demonstrated that they could deliver interpersonal psychotherapy for depression and, using a randomized control design, showed that 90 percent of the people receiving this intervention recovered as compared to roughly 40 percent in the comparison villages.
Some of it's very high-tech, and some of it is extremely low-tech, such as the project that MKSS is running in Rajasthan, India, where they take the spending data of the state and paint it on 100,000 village walls, and then invite the villagers to come and comment who is on the government payroll, who's actually died, what are the bridges that have been built to nowhere, and to work together through civic engagement to save real money and participate and have access to that budget.
And as I sat in this temple square under this gigantic beringin banyan tree, in the dark, there was no electricity, just the full moon, down in this empty square, and I heard the most beautiful sounds, like a Charles Ives concert as I listened to the gamelan music from all the different villagers that came for this once-every-five-years ceremony.
In Luo's first year back home, he was able to employ 15 villagers.
Well, the reason why militias had attacked Isabelle's village was because they wanted to take the land that the villagers needed to cultivate food and to survive.
In Congo, continuing violence is motivated not only by the national and international causes but also by longstanding bottom-up agendas whose main instigators are villagers, traditional chiefs, community chiefs or ethnic leaders.
So one day, the scouts came running and told the villagers, "The enemies are coming.
These guys took off, followed the footsteps of the villagers until they found and passed them.
And a lot of times, when we go into a country, we not only the meet the king or the president, but we also meet the villagers who live in the most remote areas of Africa.
And soldiers occupied their spare time by writing letters, drawing sketches, and drinking and smoking with local villagers.
As you might guess, this was not a very popular strategy with the villagers.
He landed his helicopter in between some surviving villagers and American soldiers and he trained his machine guns on his fellow Americans, and said, "If you don't stop the killing, I will mow you down."
It means that the villagers' lives constantly intersect.
Like Sardinian villagers, it's a biological imperative to know we belong, and not just the women among us.
I am very proud to say that I belong to a long line of magicians, from my teacher, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, to her teachers who were stars in the royal palace, to the ancient dancers of Angkor and to the primal villagers from which the art form originally took life.
And I always felt that the grandmother had kind of demanded, and insisted, that the villagers treat Eun-Sook with the same respect they treated her.
And we kept saying, "Do you realize we were dying in a hotel fire, like eight hours ago?" Natasha wanted to introduce her brother and father to all the villagers, and the day we showed up turned out to be a 60-year-old man's birthday.
Working to help the villagers obtain fresh water from wells.
It was a Tanzanian team talking to the villagers, asking what they were interested in.
Villagers minutely control the release of water into these reservoirs, waiting for each new layer to freeze before filling the basin with another wave.
In early spring, these frozen pools begin to melt, supplying villagers with irrigation for their fields.
After almost one year of searching, we finally found chemical-free bananas grown in the backyards of villagers on Hainan Island.
And the abundance of animals on display may hint at the bombing’s date– a market day which flooded the streets with villagers, animals, and other potential causalities.
But the water also flooded the surrounding area, drowning many innocent villagers.
Back in the dry south of Madagascar, we learned that one species was immensely important for villagers: this remarkable octopus.
And it wasn't doctors telling us this; it was actual villagers that we were staying with.
And on the fourth week, the doctors come and they mow out an area, put a tensile structure on the top, and when the doctors have finished treating and seeing patients and villagers, you cut down the clinic and you eat it.
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