"neglected communities" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to communities or groups of people who have been overlooked or not given enough attention or resources. An example of using this phrase in a sentence could be: "The government's policies have continuously failed to address the needs of neglected communities, leading to widespread poverty and lack of opportunities."
As a disease, trachoma mainly affects the most vulnerable members of neglected communities – women and children.
In South Carolina I met kids trying to learn in crumbling classrooms and neglected communities.
On the one hand, they infuse new vitality into neglected communities, attracting restaurateurs, gallery owners, club proprietors and developers.
Tackling NTDs is not only an effective way to end poverty – it's crucially important to empower neglected communities.
He visited the Palestinian refugee camps that dot the landscape around Beirut, thinking about ways to bring solar power and other utilities into those neglected communities.
He did not appoint an Israeli Arab minister to his 22-member cabinet and failed to funnel funds to their relatively neglected communities.
(2) Tools to identify and engage unorganised or neglected community sectors, for example Indigenous peoples and youth.
His name is Fengai, he is 21, and this is his home: a neglected community of disabled street children in one of Sierra Leone's forgotten corners.
"There are swathes of white elephants in sanitation, toilet blocks that were built but not used and vandalised because they neglected community needs," he said.
Although only a handful of people actually live at Charas, the issue of affordable housing came up again and again as speakers and others called it a symbol of the hard work that residents poured into a neglected community that is now too expensive for many of them to afford.
"We have to start recognizing this neglected community" in order to bring about change, he explains.
