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Rural poverty continues to be an enormous deterrent to student success in school,» said Tompkins.
Not exact matches
«We have
continued to pioneer new approaches to empowering our primary stakeholders and our farmers, through the Dangote outgrowers programme thereby creating thousands of jobs, increasing incomes,
poverty reduction in
rural communities by providing high quality agro-inputs, technical support and secured market for farmers.
We can not allow this situation to
continue - the political parties need to wake up to the reality and see the
poverty hidden in our
rural areas behind the green fields and leafy woodlands.»
The document suggests that development opportunities are crucial for many
rural populations who
continue to live in
poverty, and the Government is attempting to address
poverty and threats to the environment together through a new social protection programme.