About Us and History Ozark Adventist Academy is a Seventhday Adventist coeducationalboarding school owned and operated by the arkansas-Louisiana Conference. http://www.ozarkacademy.org/about_us.htm
Extractions: Ozark Adventist Academy is a Seventh-day Adventist coeducational boarding school owned and operated by the Arkansas-Louisiana Conference. It is fully accredited as a senior high school with the Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges, and Universities and by the Arkansas Nonpublic School Accrediting Association. Ozark Adventist Academy grew out of a little community church school that was first established about 1900. In time, it became Flint Creek Junior Academy and operated as a locally supported school until 1941, at which time it was taken over by the Conference and became Ozark Academy. In 1976 the name was changed to Ozark Adventist Academy. Students graduating from Ozark Adventist Academy can be proud of the fine Christian education they have received, set in place by philosophy and goals uniquely designed to maintain the spirit of its fine background. It is the policy of Ozark Adventist Academy to admit students of any race to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at its school, and to make no discrimination on the basis of race in administration of education policies, application for admission, scholarship or loan programs, and athletic or extra-curricular programs.
Extractions: Mr. Bach Cong Tien, Vice Chairman, Peoples Committee of Ba Vi District Photo: Joanne Fairley/CWS By Thomas Abraham "This is Mr. Tien. Hes an ethnic minority member." Thats how the former Vietnamese headmaster was introduced to Church World Services representative in Vietnam, Joanne Fairley. Its hardly the first thing youre told when meeting someone, but Tiens minority status is significant for several reasons. Improving services for ethnic minorities has been a CWS goal since 1990. Before that, the organization had already contributed over $8 million to the countrys post-war reconstruction, after resettling over 80,000 Vietnamese refugees. More than a third of CWS Vietnams $1.4 million budget for the next three years funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is aimed at educational support for ethnic minority students. Ethnic minorities make up 20 percent of Vietnams 77 million people. They speak more than a dozen distinct languages and many dialects. Eleven groups have their own writing systems. Although animistic beliefs are common, a large number are Catholics or Protestants, while the Khmer practice Buddhism and the Cham are Hindu or Muslim. Seventy five percent of Vietnams people live below the poverty line, enduring poor educational and social services. Many have been uprooted from ancestral lands in the governments effort to reunify the country after 1976 and develop agriculture for export.
Extractions: Back to most recent news releases Browse archive: this story Headmaster holds door open to health and education for Vietnams ethnic minorities Mr. Bach Cong Tien, Vice Chairman, Peoples Committee of Ba Vi District Photo: Joanne Fairley/CWS January 22, 2004 By Thomas Abraham "This is Mr. Tien. Hes an ethnic minority member." Thats how the former Vietnamese headmaster was introduced to Church World Services representative in Vietnam, Joanne Fairley. Its hardly the first thing youre told when meeting someone, but Tiens minority status is significant for several reasons. Improving services for ethnic minorities has been a CWS goal since 1990. Before that, the organization had already contributed over $8 million to the countrys post-war reconstruction, after resettling over 80,000 Vietnamese refugees. More than a third of CWS Vietnams $1.4 million budget for the next three years funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is aimed at educational support for ethnic minority students. Ethnic minorities make up 20 percent of Vietnams 77 million people. They speak more than a dozen distinct languages and many dialects. Eleven groups have their own writing systems. Although animistic beliefs are common, a large number are Catholics or Protestants, while the Khmer practice Buddhism and the Cham are Hindu or Muslim.
Extractions: "Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its verdant valleys, its murmuring rivers, its magnificent mountains, sequestered vales and verdant lined lakes and bay, and ever yearn in tender, fond affection over the lonely hearted living, and often return from the Happy Hunting Ground to visit, guide, console and comfort them ... And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe." - Chief Seattle, 1855
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