Sentences with phrase «in abject poverty»

To date the LATA Foundation has successfully supported fourteen projects across Latin America including a sewing school in Mexico, a reforestation programme in Peru, turtle protection in Venezuela and a project to provide clean water to a community of a thousand people living in abject poverty in Nicaragua.

May the souls of all security officers particularly, police officers who died in line of duties yet no presidential donations and TrustFunds were established in their memories to take care of their wives and children who are wallowing in abject poverty rest in peace.

«I know kids can overcome poverty, but when students are living in abject poverty in segregated communities with poor health care and housing, that makes the work for our teachers all the more challenging.»

Child Care subsidies allow working parents to maintain gainful employment rather than being trapped in the abject poverty of welfare dependency,» said County Legislator Lyndon Williams.

«Local people in the wilderness areas are living in abject poverty so they have no options.

Her father published a book of staggering success and has written nothing since, leaving the family in abject poverty.

One big reason that we have so many in abject poverty is overpopulation.

These people have been living in abject poverty right under our nose — less than 700 miles from our shore.

More human beings live in abject poverty now than at any moment in the history of the planet.

The long and eagerly anticipated Saviour now made his appearance in abject poverty.

He further explained that about 16 out of them were later recalled and reinstated while others were left to languish in abject poverty, as they continued to struggle and agitate for justice.

Around 90 percent of the adult population falls in the bottom of the wealth pyramid earning less than $ 10,000 per year, with many millions still in abject poverty.

Based on the best selling autobiography by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is the story of young Frankie and his siblings being raised in abject poverty in the slums of Limerick.

, so why then would those living in abject poverty pay for something they could get for free?

We can not continue to die like chicken whilst our wives and children wallow in abject poverty and most at times, the education of deceased police officers children truncates.

It may be true that people living in abject poverty may be more amenable to extremist ideologies, but a material solution to their situation may only provides for their physical needs.

A few hundred million people are doing OK and a few million have become extremely wealthy while at least a billion people are living in abject poverty.

None of these arguments give the Israelis the right to continuously violate the basic human rights of the Palestinian people who live in abject poverty.

We live in a world in which for some, misery is the only reality of existence: people starve to death, live in abject poverty and know unrelieved distress and isolation all their days.

The military along with other elites keeps 60 percent of the country's population, its Mayan peoples, in abject poverty.

In the underdeveloped areas of Asia more than 85 per cent of the population lives in abject poverty.

All this blathering about killing children, while conservative politics and unbridled capitalism have locked literally hundreds of millions of people in abject poverty and hunger.

Despite this form of government and despite being the world's fifth - largest supplier of oil, 98 percent of Nigerians live in abject poverty.

There are hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty.

In the developing world, it's been correct to oppose formula manufacturers trying to convince people living in abject poverty that formula is somehow «better», in the absence of reliable clean water, and risking malnutrition due to dilution.

In spite of all these wealth and resources, Africa is wallowing in abject poverty, and as much as I agree that some of the causes of this unfortunate situation is the making of Africans themselves, much of the blame must be put at the doorsteps of some western countries, and I will explain.

Thousands of civilians were killed and several hundreds of thousands displaced from their homes and living in refugee camps; both in Nigeria and in the neighbouring countries, while those that looted and shared the war fund live and swim in obscene wealth and luxury, with properties and bank accounts littered in Nigeria and in foreign countries, just as majority of Nigerian masses live in abject poverty and helplessness.

Were the Palestinian people being starved of all manner of supplies and living in abject poverty?

«He was in the Senate and nothing was done through him to support the growth and development of the state, rather his party bastardized the economy and left our people in abject poverty.

«We can no longer tolerate a situation whereby a government has no dream, no direction, and people are made to wallow in abject poverty.

Seven years after government compulsorily acquired 702 acres of land for the establishment of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), the 78 owners of the land say they wallow in abject poverty, and are frustrated over government's failure to compensate them.

According to him, state governors today are busy building billion naira airports, government houses and other white elephant while their people live in abject poverty and squalor.

«My father left when I was young; we lived in abject poverty,» he recalled.

Whether Klein grew up in abject poverty or simply in circumstances much more humble than the financial and political status to which he has risen has absolutely nothing to do with whether the education policies he proposes work.

The best way to solve it would be for government to provide children's grants so that no child grows up in abject poverty.

For example, if we assume that charter schools are not intentionally keeping the more challenging students out, it may be that families living in abject poverty are underrepresented in charter schools because they are too busy trying to survive to know to act on different charter vs. district options.

Yet about 375,000 Connecticut residents, more than 1 in 10 live in abject poverty.