The Humanitarian of the Year honor went to Emeril Lagasse, whose Emeril Lagasse Foundation in New Orleans supports nonprofit and educational programs aimed at disadvantaged children.
Gerard Pantin, a Roman Catholic priest and Mr. Wes Hall, a Barbadian cricketer, to establish SERVOL. Since then, SERVOL has been implementing intergenerational, family and community-based life and vocational skills training, enterprise development, psychosocial counselling, educational and empowerment projects in disadvantaged and marginalised urban and rural communities.
Within the nonprofit sector, there has been strong growth in providing disadvantaged children with social, educational and health services.
Efforts were also made to identify and encourage former teachers to rejoin the educational sector while subsidies were provided to enable disadvantaged children to gain access to education.
As a result, many needy people have failed to benefit from the UPE and FAL programmes, and the situation remains particularly dire for disadvantaged rural communities whose access to educational amenities such as libraries, proper educational infrastructure (buildings) and teachers continues to be limited.
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His analysis and writing center on advancing our understanding of education in society and the role of educational systems in influencing access and opportunity among underserved and disadvantaged students.
Andre Agassi, founder of the Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation, and his wife, Stefanie Graf, both work tirelessly to help disadvantaged children, in an effort to provide them educational opportunities.
With regards to educational development, the programme has created learning opportunities for socially disadvantaged adults and thus helped to solve the problem of illiteracy, unemployment and limited productivity among this target group.
Those with whom I work may lack the pedigree of Ms. Piros or Mr. Hardin, but ironically, in the courtroom judges hold the disadvantaged to a much higher standard that those at the apogee of our educational institutions.
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The new plan would set aside an additional 27% of places in educational institutions for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) - lower caste Hindus and other traditionally disadvantaged groups.
Instead the authors recommend that "policymakers should concentrate on educational reforms in primary and pre-school" and want more effort made to raise the basic skills of disadvantaged groups.
There was clearly an educational access gap here that was limiting the opportunities, both economic and social, for those from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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