Word: self-help
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Since its beginnings in 1958 Operation Crossroads Africa has sent approximately 4000 American and Canadian students to 33 African countries to participate in self-help projects...
...negative answer may lie in the fact that the U.S. has long imposed the lengthiest sentences of any industrialized nation in the world, while also being one of the most crime-ridden. A more direct rebuttal came last week from the Fortune Society, a New York-based self-help group of former convicts. Distressed that politicians never ask ex-cons "about what deterred us and what did not," the society's monthly newsletter reported that "those of us who were small-time pushers, thieves, stickup artists, recall that we were too busy fighting to survive on the streets...
Octavius Rowe, executive director of RMTI, said that the function of the institute is to encourage community participation in social services. "RMTI is self-help personified, because it attracts black people back into the community," he said...
Yale's basic self-help requirement will be $1900 this year, David said. Jewett said that Harvard's figure of $1200 is more favorable to the student than Yale...
Each college then offers a different proportion of outright gifts and "self-help"--income from guaranteed jobs and loans--to total what they have agreed is an applicant's need. The proportion is based on the amount of scholarship money available at each school, Jewett said...