Sentence examples for devastating poverty from inspiring English sources
In the face of devastating poverty, unemployment and malnutrition, we organized a cooperative farm where residents grew tons of vegetables, and we found pathways to jobs and education.
As Tayler soon learns, though, a country torn apart by decades of social chaos and devastating poverty is not necessarily the best setting for a voyage of self-discovery.
In the novel Shantaram, Linbaba's Mumbai is at once a place of glamour and destitution – a place where spectacular wealth and devastating poverty live side by side.
But he had spoken by phone to several people in the countryside, who told him openly that they hated Kim Jong-il for the devastating poverty they had suffered as a result of his policies.
In the face of violence and devastating poverty, how do we find peace?
He explained that they are sensitized to the needs of students because they witness students suffering in devastating poverty everyday.
I believe one reason stands above others: a devastating extreme poverty which destroys all hope of a normal life.
This is a proposal that could, once and for all, devastate poverty corridors serving the urban poor, and the middle class that are unfortunate enough to need trauma, burn or complex medical services, who live nearby.
The transformation of that achievement into a nation riven by political violence, ravaged by Aids and devastated by poverty is a tragedy of epic proportions.
One after another, the stories unfolded — of families devastated by poverty or illness or death, of children forced prematurely to assume the burdens of adulthood — all the way to Case No. 100, about an elderly widow in poor health whose four children "lack for food and clothing".
From 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village, animalalliancenyc.org/adoptapalooza; free.20110602 African Children's Choir (Saturday) Many members of this singing group come from families devastated by poverty and civil war, but audiences wouldn't know it from their voices.
