The phrase "needy kids" refers to children who require additional support or resources because they are lacking certain things, such as food, clothes, or love and attention from their families. Full definition
Students — whose grant applications automatically receive bonus points — have gotten funding for a pottery wheel and for help with a student - led drive for school supplies for needy kids. (ptotoday.com)
Schools have the potential to serve as a corrective, a way to bring students of different socioeconomic backgrounds together and to bring resources and opportunity into the lives of needy kids. (edbuild.org)
Mind you, these are Catholic schools that serve needy kids in tough neighborhoods. (educationnext.org)