Sentence examples for from very poor backgrounds from inspiring English sources

His parents were from "very poor backgrounds", their families part of the large-scale migration from China to Malaya from the 19th century to the 1930s.

"Rabina [who plays Latika] and Azza [who plays Salim] were from very poor backgrounds," says Boyle. "One night, we heard a rumour that Azza's house had been demolished.

"Most of the youngsters there were poor, from very poor backgrounds," he said, and Morehouse "played a vital role of nurturing".

LL My dad's an academic and my mum was teaching in college when I was little, they are both from very poor backgrounds – and she can't have an empty cupboard, it just reminds her.

"Ninety percent of the pupils here come from very poor backgrounds," Mr Rodha says.

Such measures include the pupil premium, giving extra money to schools which take pupils from very poor backgrounds, and steps to get more deprived students into universities.

He comes from a very poor background, so to speak, and he's a very humble person.

"I think what he liked about Assad was that he had come from a very poor background and ended up ruling over other people.

I come from a very poor background in Panama and I've always thought I needed to adopt survival skills in order to survive.

I'm from a very poor background: my mum was a single parent living on a council estate in Llanelli and we didn't have any money at all.

"I have never seen such a long-term story of children from a very poor background growing up to become adults and getting their life put together and trying to actually lift them out of poverty," Mr. Masi said.