Thousands live destitute in Mumbai, Maharashtra's capital.
Her worst fear, she writes, "was not dying, but that I'd wind up living, destitute, in some state nursing home...
According to a report published last month by Asylum Support Partnership, a coalition of the leading refugee charities in the UK, almost half of visits to such charities are from people whose claims have been refused and who are, therefore, living destitute - many for more than six months.
By means of trade classes and a combination of education and religious work, Hogg hoped to reconstruct the lives of destitute children.
"Art is not my only passion however and, as many know, I have been committed to improving the lives of destitute animals for many years.
Aren't you glad/dismayed/cynical about/ready to throatpunch somebody in Congress about the way it worked out/hasn't worked out/will never work out/everything in the economy is now collapsed in a heap and we're now all cooking stickmeat over open flames in the bombed out subprime housing subdivisions that now form the venue of our new lives as destitute squatters?
India's state-run power industry struggles to get enough fuel thanks to mismanagement and bureaucracy, even its brightest youth can't land a spot at a good university and about third of its citizens live in destitute poverty, with hundreds of millions malnourished.
Yet, the reality is that troops endure horrific conditions – they often lack tents or sleeping bags, many must scavenge for firewood to cook and they live a destitute life – hardly the motivation or replenishment required to fight a violent and constant aggressor.
They were living as destitutes and relied on relief aid from the government and other development agents.
When such a large share of the population lives in such destitute circumstances, illegal construction — even with its inherent risks — becomes a welcome alternative for millions of people.
