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WORK'S WORTH IT: Liz McMillan finds social work very rewarding.

Maria Sharapova and LeBron James

The Millennium Development Goals were meant to end extreme poverty

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Demonstrators -- which included members of student groups, unions, labour groups and social justice agencies -- gathered on the lawn of Queen's Park to demand action on homelessness, the minimum wage and the increasing cost of tuition.

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Gage Guimond was killed while in care, but his name wasn’t mentioned by politicians Tuesday.

Officials see need to find ways to preserve Native American culture, even for children who must enter foster care

The government wants 240,000 homes-a-year to be built by 2016

Children spend little time with their parents - and much more time watching television than reading books, says a survey of primary school-age children.

Ashburton Child Youth and Family social worker Hayley Wall finds her job challenging and rewarding. Ms Wall finds many high points in advocating for the welfare of neglected and abused children, who she describes as among the country’s most unprotected citizens.
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Some abused or neglected children in Edinburgh are being left in high-risk situations instead of being removed from their homes, inspectors have said. The council was criticised after the death of Caleb Ness in 2001.

People in Wales are to be asked how to improve the nation's diet in order to cut the rising levels of obesity.

Wendy Machava and Jane Swanepoel work at Roodepoort (South Africa) Child Welfare Society, where caseloads top 1,000 per year.
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Joe and Maria Cubas, the Coral Gables couple embroiled in an international custody dispute over the fate of a 5-year-old Cuban girl in their care, speak to The Miami Herald in their home.

Hundreds of mental health workers in Manchester are taking strike action for the third time in protest over the suspension of a union official in June. Unison says Karen Reissmann is being "targeted" by bosses.

Poverty levels have dropped from around 60 percent in 1980 to 10 percent today. Party hacks in Beijing and international organizations, like the US- dominated World Bank, are pretty self- congratulatory over the apparent successes in reducing poverty in China. . . . But don't let's get carried away with the backslapping. These statistics reveal only part of the story.

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Austrian social worker Werner Hofmanns shares a hongi with health worker Rangi Mehana at Witt yesterday.

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Dr. Michael Forster, the director of the School of Social Work, was awarded the 2007 Social Welfare Merit Award.

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Carol Ballen couldn’t cope with the horrors she saw. She now works as a hairdresser.

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The house at 164 High Rock Road in Groton where 2-year-old Treau Bemis drowned in a tub.

After a series of troubles, Kathleen Usher struggled over whether she should keep her 15-year-old son in her family. She had to consider the needs of her five other adopted children.
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The inauguration was followed by an interactive session with the workers by lecturer of the college Evelyn Denis. She stressed on the importance of education and awareness on health. She also urged them to form youth groups with the help of MSW students and work together for the welfare of migratory workers.

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Paying homage: S. Kumaraswamy, Secretary, Puducherry Department of Art and Culture (extreme left), pays homage to poet Tamizh Oli on Saturday.

John Parkinson and Nicki Dennis discuss the new mental health unit at St John of God Hospital.
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The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in Northwest China is known for its harsh weather making agricultural development difficult. But in one small village, locals have developed new technology to grow watermelons using small stones.

LeRoy Colledge, his wife, Marlene (center) and social worker Katie Bloom talk recently about the family's situation as LeRoy battles lung cancer. Bloom, who had to go out of state to get her master's degree in social work, is helping the Colledges figure out hospital bills, insurance paperwork and Social Security issues.
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Glenna Taylor packs a backpack on its way to Wenonah Elementary School in Waynesboro.

Katrina Wilson (36), former alcoholic, and her husband Jackie (32), on 27 August, speak about FAS (Foetal Alcohol Syndrome) affecting their daughter in their house in De Aar. De AAr with its 30,000-odd residents carries the unenviable distinction of the world's highest reported incidence of the FAS.

W ZONGKER | My Nassau Sun

Katrina Robinson-Wheeler, substance abuse therapist at Sutton Place Behavioral Health in Fernandina Beach

Ethiopians cross a concrete footbridge financed by Starbucks in the coffee-producing Sidamo region. "If we are paid a (coffee) price which is decent, the people can make the bridge on their own," said Tadesse Meskela, a farmers cooperative manager.
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The September 30 deadline is looming for the U.S. Senate to submit its proposal of a new Farm Bill, which was last updated in 2002 and is typically re-vamped twice a decade. . . . In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed their version of the Farm Bill, which provided for an additional $4.3 billion in spending for the Food Stamp Program, the Emergency Food Assistance Program and other programs that help people in danger of going hungry or malnourished.

Colman Murphy surveyed facilities for the homeless and mentally ill during March. (KT Borchers | Mercury News)

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Park Ridge High basketball star Vincent Richmond, right, playing ball with his best friend, Bryan Frasciello. Richmond escaped Newark's drug culture.

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Lisa Fox and her husband, Steve, have been foster parents to four girls, in addition to raising two biological sons and adopting a daughter. Catholic Community Services is working on a three-year plan to increase the number of permanent homes for special-needs foster children in Marion, Polk and Yamhill counties.

Increased online marking of exam papers could be linked to rising numbers of inaccurate grades, the National Association of Head Teachers says.

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NO THANKS: Japan hopes robots can help take care of its rapidly aging population, but older people don't like interacting with robots like the "ifbot", pictured.

Dr. Lorraine Midanik, who earned her Ph.D. in behavioral sciences from Johns Hopkins University, joined the Berkeley faculty in 1984 to direct the school's Health concentration.

Women make up more than 60 per cent of university students across this country. More women than men are training to be doctors, dentists, lawyers, pharmacists, and scientists.
G Kahrmann | The Province

While for many Tenerife is a tourist playground, there is a darker side to life on the island, and it’s a side inhabited by people living a hand-to-mouth existence, in work or out of it, with or without a roof over their head.

Caprice Harris pays tribute to her father, Charles E. Harris Jr., at a dinner for his retirement from the Social Security Administration. AR Ward | Special to the Sun

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Condoms remain one of the most effective means of preventing both unintended pregnancies and sexually transmissible infections (STI) such as chlamydia, gonorrhea and HIV. Ensuring that men and women use condoms consistently and correctly, however, is often a challenge.

There can be few more striking images of the inequality at the heart of Brazilian society than the favela or shanty town of Paraisopolis in Sao Paulo.

Delynne McCrea of the Regina Women's Community Centre holds one of the prize's in this year's "A Room for Change" lottery. The art work is an Emille Belle seriolithograph entitled 'De Reve' and is valued at $1000.
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This type of acne is characterised by white heads and small cysts

Julia Hernandez participates in the morning exercises led by direct care staff Colleen Gomez at the Friend's Haus on Landa Street.

We are an emerging network of social work organizations and leaders who seek to further the field of end-of-life and hospice/palliative care… in other words, we are advancing the role of the social worker in caring for the seriously ill, providing relief from pain, improving quality of life, supporting family and friends, assisting with difficult decision-making, and help in dealing with trauma, grief and loss.

Ruth Jankee (left), general manager at Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) Foundation, donates a cheque for $3 million to the Violence Prevention Alliance's (VPA) chairman of the board of directors, Dr. Elizabeth Ward, and director, Professor Barry Chevannes (right). The foundation's donation will be used over three years to assist the VPA in its work to increase the success of violence prevention programmes in Jamaica.

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President Evo Morales plays frontón, similar to racquetball and loved by Bolivians.

The London housing strategy is the fruit of new housing and planning powers, to be granted by Parliament to the Mayor of London, which give the Mayor direct responsibility for London’s affordable housing budget worth over £1 billion a year.

The government says it aims to cover all migrant workers engaged in high risk industries by the end of next year.

The case of Saturday Night Live actor Tony Rosato, who is mentally ill, highlights the need for co-ordinated, regional mental-health courts, says his lawyer Daniel Brodsky.
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