Some of the poorest countries across Africa are littered with broken water pumps and run down schools, and all too often these have come as a result of projects led by outsiders, who leave a community once the construction has been completed.
I had to smile—I got my first shin splints running down school halls myself.
Have you ever sat in front of the television and got very cross when the headlines scream out running down schools and education and belittling young people and teachers alike?
"It was how run down the school playgrounds looked, and it just made me think of the £5bn that was wasted on the war, how far money like that would have gone in making places for our children to play properly". Isn't Sedgefield a constituency from which many British soldiers come and so would have strong views about your campaign?
"It was how run down the school playgrounds looked, and it just made me think of the £5bn that was wasted on the war, how far money like that would have gone in making places for our children to play properly".
Pay equity, a $15 minimum wage, saving families on average $5,000 per year in health care costs, investing $1trillion dollars in infrastructure, are proposals that invest in rebuilding run down elementary schools on the west side of Baltimore, and reopening countless others on the south side of Chicago.
Stress-related leave has also increased in the public sector as workers are understandably getting run down working in understaffed schools and hospital wards.
HONG KONG — A man angry over a court ruling in the case of his daughter's murder used his car to run down a group of high school students in northern China, causing 13 to be hospitalized with injuries, the local government and the state news media reported on Tuesday.
Schools are run down, with no textbooks, let alone computers.
Seventy percent of its schools are run down and overcrowded.
