In 1998, when the filmmaker Paul Schrader agreed to make a video for Lucinda's last album and flew down to Nashville to discuss possible ideas, he was struck by how badly this woman needed a break: here was someone in her mid-forties who was having trouble meeting the essential needs of food and shelter.
In short, Democratic Socialism is a system that is organized to meet the essential needs of people.
States now spend only slightly more than one-quarter of their combined federal and state TANF funds on basic assistance to meet the essential needs of families with children, and just another quarter on child care for low-income families and activities to connect TANF families to work.
Yet schemes such as Bancos Comunales are based on the conviction that when governments and international aid organizations invest in meeting the essential needs of the poor, the intergenerational cycle of poverty can be broken.
The analysis concludes that under the current concepts and in the current mode of implementation, both technically and politically, household economic aid does not relieve children's poverty, and does not meet even the essential needs for their livelihood.
The first way assesses whether sufficient services are being provided to meet the essential health needs.
This requires introducing participatory disaggregation of forest dependence by caste, class, tribe and gender at the community level, and evolving mechanisms for meeting the immediate essential needs of the most dependent members through appropriate forest management interventions prior to the commencement of joint management.
This paper further explores whether modifications were made to their domestic toilets to meet these essential needs.
The Manual still refrains from placing positive obligations on parties to the conflict to ensure that the essential needs are, in fact, met.
At this critical moment for our nation--with jobs eroding month by month--we can no longer afford a system that costs way too much, excludes too many people, and fails to meet the most essential need of American families--staying healthy.
According to WASH specialist Etienne Yongwe, of United Nations Standby partner CANADEM, "WASH interventions are having a positive impact on the lives of refugees and helping the new arrivals to rapidly meet their essential needs.
