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2 unusual facts about For the Poor


For the Poor

In the 2008 municipal elections, the party described itself has being founded on a Christian view of the world.

In the municipal elections of 2004, For the Poor signed up a total of 11 candidates in Helsinki, Suomussalmi and Vantaa.



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Adaptive tile refresh

Adaptive Tile Refresh is a computer graphics technique for sidescrolling games, invented by id Software's John Carmack to compensate for the poor graphics performance of PCs in the early 1990s.

Ade Bethune

Ade was interested in the Catholic Worker Movement's work with hospitality for the poor when she was an art student.

Anthony Maria Zaccaria

Having explored his calling for two years, mainly working in hospitals and institutions for the poor, he became the spiritual advisor to Countess Ludovica Torelli of Guastalla (then the tiny County of Guastalla) in 1530, and followed her to Milan.

Basi and Company

Former Minister of Information and Culture Tony Momoh praised the use of standard English on the show, as opposed to Nigerian Pidgin which remains dominant on television and has been blamed for the poor command of standard English in the country, despite its status as an English-speaking nation, leading to low scores in WAEC and JAMB English examinations.

Bethel Institution

He massively strengthened and extended the institution, with more premises also for the poor and at other locations, and renamed it after Bethel in 1874.

Calvinistic Methodists

Its beginnings may be traced to the labours of the Rev. Griffith Jones (1684–1761), of Llanddowror, Carmarthenshire, whose sympathy for the poor led him to set on foot a system of circulating charity schools for the education of children.

Canonesses of St. Augustine of the Mercy of Jesus

The canonesses' origins were in the 13th century, when a group of women in France joined together to assist the Augustinian Hermit friars who cared for the poor and the sick at the Hôtel-Dieu of the fishing port of Dieppe.

Criticism of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report

They expressed regret for "the poor application of well-established IPCC procedures in this instance" and their vice-chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele said that the reviewing procedures would have to be tightened.

Damien The Leper Society

The organization is named after priest now known as Saint Damien (or Damien the Leper or Damien of Molokai), who spent the majority of his life caring for the poor and outcast lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai.

Edward Pickard

His orphan school went on under the guidance of Joseph Soul to arrive in the twentieth century where it was transformed into an orphanage for the poor into The Royal Alexandra and Albert School, a boarding school in Surrey.

Elizabeth of Hungary

She then built a hospital at Marburg for the poor and the sick with the money from her dowry, where she and her companions cared for them.

Frederick Martin

Frederick Townsend Martin (1849–1914), New York City writer and advocate for the poor

Gaspar García Laviana

Father García Laviana was a priest who was greatly influenced by the spirit of Liberation Theology which focused on a "preferential option for the poor" declared at the Latin American Bishop's conferences at Medellín and Cuernavaca.

Gino Geraci

He has conducted leadership conferences, Bible Conferences, and emergency service support conferences with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Samaritans’ Purse, Gospel for Asia in India, and Sri Lanka, the Bible League in Africa; Food For The Poor in Jamaica; Mike McIntosh Crusades in Mexico; Somebody Loves You Bible Conferences with Raul Ries in Chile, Columbia, Peru and Pastor’s conferences in much of the continental United States.

Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière

The society sponsored Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve and Jeanne Mance, a lay woman, to go to Ville Marie with French colonists to evangelize the Native Americans, and establish a hospital, which became the Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal, to care for the poor, founded by Mance in 1642.

Józef Montwiłł

He financed numerous courses for the poor, among them was a class of painting and arts, run by - among others - Józef Bałzukiewicz and Ivan Trutnev, from which graduated a renowned Lithuanian artist Juozas Zikaras.

La Rioja Province, Argentina

After the younger Menem was elected governor of La Rioja Province in March 1973, he implemented a number of reforms advocated by activists for the poor, rural majority, particularly those recommended by Bishop Enrique Angelelli.

Market Education

The Beautiful Tree, a book by James Tooley about low-cost private (mostly for-profit) education for the poor in less developed countries.

Nagarkurnool

Members of the Nagarkurnool Sathya Sai Organization are highly devoted and actively involved in social service, such as helping rural women in handicrafts, providing tools and vocational training to unemployed youth, conducting medical camps for the poor and needy in and around the town, training in hygiene, adopting and maintaining cleanliness in villages, and other projects.

Peter Greer

Peter Keith Greer (born 1975) is a Christian advocate for the poor, an author, and the president of HOPE International (HOPE), a global faith-based microfinance organization based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, serving entrepreneurs throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.

Robert Derzon

President of the United States Jimmy Carter appointed Derzon to serve as the first head of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, later called the CMS), an agency created in March 1977 with the responsibility for overseeing both Medicare, which provides health insurance for those over age 65, and Medicaid, which provides health insurance for the poor.

Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband

Other notable Jewish members included the painter Yosl Bergner, the RAF pilot Rubin Lifszyc and the organizer of children's theater for the poor in the Warsaw Ghetto, Pola Lifszyc.

Swami Keshwanand

By one account: "There was no vegetation left on the ground. There was no drop of water. All the animals died for want of fodder. People survived on grasses and the bark of "Khejri" trees. Even that also became scarce. There was nothing like governance. The ruling Samants were least bothered for the poor people....".

The Stonebreaker

Wallis is believed to have painted The Stonebreaker as a commentary on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 which had formalised the workhouse system for paupers and discouraged other forms of relief for the poor.

Townhead

Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest remaining house, was constructed from the late 15th century by Bishop Andrew, later given the surname Muirhead as part of St Nicholas Hospital, a lodging for the poor.

Vikas Upadhyay

A strong believer in the ideology of the Congress party, he has dedicated himself in bringing the economic reforms for the poor and working for the "Aam Aadmi" of the country.

Wold Newton, Lincolnshire

In October 2009, the war memorial in Wold Newton was used by the constituency MP, Shona McIsaac, as evidence for the poor condition of the UK's war memorials.