They are an extremely marganalized community, suffering from severe poverty.

Smith says that being exposed to severe poverty as a child made her want to do something to help kids around the world.

His youth was spent in severe poverty and difficulty on the reserve.

The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty.

We have seen that the proportion in severe poverty was considerably higher.

The Israeli children involved were mostly those who came from severe poverty and violent backgrounds.

Many families faced severe poverty after losing one or more wage-earning members.

These were times of severe poverty, cold, and desperation.

Many rural people lived in severe poverty, especially in the South.