Sentences with phrase «from generational poverty»

They suffer from generational poverty.

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The aim is to «break the generational cycles of abuse, prostitution, criminal activity and poverty, which currently hold these women back from reaching their potential».

Sabrina, a parent leader from Canarsie, offered her views on education as it ties to generational poverty.

In the voice - over that introduces his character, Hap Jackson, patriarch of a black sharecropping family, laments that African - Americans are barred from land ownership through a combination of generational poverty and white plunder, drawing a direct connection between the racist oppression of former slaves and their lack of access to capital.

We know poverty, teenage motherhood, single - parent homes, the lack of value on education from this cohort, generational public assistance, etc., etc., are the primary causes of the achievement gap, NOT INCOMPETENT TEACHERS.

«Many of our students are facing family challenges both from generational oppression and poverty that affect behavior in a way that a traditional classroom can not address alone.»

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.

We exist to love and care for orphans and impoverished children, by meeting their physical, spiritual, educational, social and emotional needs that they might overcome their life circumstances and break free from the cycle of generational poverty.