Sentence examples similar to first hand communities from inspiring English sources

Having witnessed first-hand communities ripped apart by natural disaster and conflict -- from Syria, to Haiti, to the Congo -- the resilience I've seen in the Philippines proves to be a powerful shield against any storm.

She will have a chance to view first-hand community-based programmes supporting children and family members living with HIV in Quang Ninh province.

Parliamentarians visit nutrition centres As part of the Assembly, parliamentarians also visited UNICEF-supported projects in the greater Kampala area, witnessing first-hand community-based management of acute malnutrition services.

Viet Nam 23- 25 April Chan will travel to Quang Ninh province, site of the spectacular Ha Long Bay, to view first-hand community-based programmes supporting children and family members living with HIV.

The advocacy visit was to help students understand how so many of the problems they saw first hand during community service might be addressed through programs or services that could be created by legislation or policy initiatives at the local, state or federal levels.

He knows first hand that our community does very little for those who share his position.

While in Baltimore, I experienced first hand the power of community organizing.

Charities are born of their communities and are often best placed to see community division first hand.

Despite having been born in "the posh part" of Aberaman, a mining village in the Cynon Valley, where he was the doctor's son, he saw at first hand how a working-class community holds itself together in bad times and good, even if he was not quite of it, especially after receiving his secondary education at Cowbridge grammar school, a fee-paying establishment in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Its idealistic president, Ron Grzywinski, now emeritus, had seen the effects of racial redlining first hand as a banker and community activist, and resolved to create a bank that could help the depressed South Shore neighborhood of Chicago regenerate by providing normal banking services to creditworthy borrowers.

No tests, no samples, no interviews of employees or nearby residents effected, just a simple denial by the manager was good enough to refute hundreds of photos, certified lab results, anecdotal stories from the community, or first hand eye witness account by me".