Schools cannot impact directly on poverty but they can reduce the impact of poverty.
Updated at 2.01am BST 1.57am BST Climate change is going to intensify the impact of poverty, said Opondo.
Schools cannot be expected to pick up the pieces and have to overcome the profound adverse impact of poverty and homelessness alone".
Iain Gray, Scottish Labour's opportunity spokesperson, said the new guidance painted a "damning picture" of the impact of poverty on schools.
The recent Our Lives report, written by a group of women who work closely with people in hardship, powerfully confirms that the impact of poverty and social exclusion on service users is becoming more severe.
The goal of the project is to reduce the impact of poverty and improve the reproductive health status of adolescents and young people through scaling-up the availability and access to comprehensive reproductive health services.
Most parents do everything they can to shield their children from going hungry (often by going hungry themselves) but they don't always succeed and, even when they do, they cannot fully protect them from the impact of poverty.
The impact of poverty on families and children today and many other social ills are often ignored by some of our religious bodies and both of our political parties.
Their duties range from building houses with Habitat for Humanity and visiting rural areas of Appalachia to see the impact of poverty on children to mentoring young men, boxing food for the needy and assisting adults with physical disabilities.
The report of the inquiry, supported by the Children's Society and led by a panel of 16 children, said teachers and schools often did not comprehend the psychological impact of poverty on pupils.
After visiting Argentina and seeing the impact of poverty on some of its children, Blake Mycoskie was inspired to create a philanthropic "for-profit business that was sustainable and not reliant on donations".
