Villages in sentence

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Most of the people who lived here either lived in coastal villages, fishing, or were nomads who roamed around with the environment trying to find water.

She got her toilet, and now she goes around all the other villages in India persuading other women to do the same thing.

One big difference in the villages, as opposed to the urban slums: there were more girls than boys who came to the kiosk.

And finally Bishnu, the leader of the team, has now understood that not only have we built toilets, we've also built a team, and that team is now working in two villages where they're training up the next two villages to keep the work expanding.

In 2004, in Sri Lanka, after the Sumatra earthquake and tsunami, I rebuilt Islamic fishermen's villages.

For almost two years, we went all over the country and even visited remote villages.

In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical, to ask himself what if there were no camels in Germany.

For years, the Zabbaleen would live in makeshift villages where they would move around trying to avoid the local authorities, but in the early 1980s, they settled on the Mokattam rocks just at the eastern edge of the city.

In these villages, you see an entirely altered landscape, and hidden behind these mounds of dirt are these square, rectangular houses which sit seven meters below the ground.

Now around Chernobyl, there are scattered ghost villages, eerily silent, strangely charming, bucolic, totally contaminated.

So they returned to their villages and are told they're going to get sick and die soon, but five happy years, their logic goes, is better than 10 stuck in a high rise on the outskirts of Kiev, separated from the graves of their mothers and fathers and babies, the whisper of stork wings on a spring afternoon.

Take another example, I was walking around in one of our villages in India.

As the young migrate, these rural villages are left with only elderly, who are really struggling to elevate themselves above abject poverty.

Research companies actually track this impact by counting what is called "Taobao villages."

There were just 20 Taobao villages in 2013, 212 in 2014, 780 in 2015, 1,300 in 2016 and over 2,100 at the end of 2017.

So we've been working for a few years with these local communities and clinicians to study what happens to the Hmong and Karen microbiomes when people move from refugee camps and villages in Thailand to the USA.

However, Sierra Leone is infamous for a decade-long rebel war in the '90s when entire villages were burnt down.

And the recursion in some of these villages continues down into very tiny scales.

And at the same time that we had students in the lab looking at this, we also had community partners in Haiti working to develop the process, to improve it and make it more accessible to people in the villages there.

And by doing so, she has changed the soil, the weather, in some places in Africa, and of course the economic conditions in many villages.

I went into the villages to work in rural India.

Then there is the case of poor people from villages, like me.

In the villages, the only place where you can get money is through the post office.

I suspect that every aid worker in Africa comes to a time in her career when she wants to take all the money for her project — maybe it's a school or a training program — pack it in a suitcase, get on a plane flying over the poorest villages in the country, and start throwing that money out the window.

So far, we've looked for the poorest people in the poorest villages, and in this part of the world, they're the ones living in homes made of mud and thatch, not cement and iron.

So rivers are the highways of the jungle, and this is something we learned, and most of the recruiting was being done in and around the river villages.

So we went to these river villages, and we asked the people, and probably some of them were direct acquaintances of the guerrillas.

The women in the villages had no idea we were fighting for them in the streets.

And so far, we have been able to support 900 women in 24 villages around Pakistan.

We are planning to reach out to two more villages, and soon I believe we will be scaling out of Pakistan into South Asia and beyond.

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