Sentence examples for disadvantaged provinces from inspiring English sources

It was long considered one of China's poorest and most disadvantaged provinces, as characterized by the folk poem: "The sky is not clear three days; the land is not level for three li (2,115 feet, or 645 metres); the people don't have three cents". Area 67,200 square miles (174,000 square km).

It was long considered one of China's poorest and most disadvantaged provinces, as characterized by the folk poem: "The sky is not clear three days; the land is not level for three li (2,115 feet, or 645 metres); the people don't have three cents".

Once the project is completed, 50,560 children are expected to have access to primary education in these disadvantaged provinces.

Particularly in disadvantaged provinces, this figure deters many families from sending their children to preschool education institutions.

When apartheid ended, the national department of health reallocated resources from previously advantaged provinces to historically disadvantaged provinces [ 10].

Since 1996, resources for health care have been channelled more equitably to disadvantaged provinces such as KwaZulu-Natal, and this will help finance the improved health services.

The prevalence rate of chronic malnutrition (stunting) varies widely from 38.1% in the most disadvantaged province to 6.8% in the well-off province [ 11].

Focusing on communities in two of the most economically disadvantaged South African provinces within KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape, a total of 25 schools have been selected to receive assistance from this initiative.

She had been a teacher and was highly respected in her small village in the remote Naryn Province, the most disadvantaged of Kyrgyzstan's provinces due to its high mountains and harsh climate.

"There has been a notable reduction of stunting over the last years, however the prevalence is still high and the General Nutrition Survey has revealed emergent socio-economic disparities as well as among provinces and disadvantaged areas".

In 1967, when de Gaulle made his "Quebec libre" speech in Montreal, French-speaking Quebeckers were a disadvantaged majority in a province whose English-speaking minority dominated business and much else.