Poverty / Table of contents

A record of what poverty makes visible.

Poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money. This index gathers the stories that make that truth impossible to ignore.

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(104) Afghan Families Selling Children As Poverty Deepens
June 10, 2026
(103) Indonesia’s Childhood Stunting Rises To 24% In Children Aged Under Five
April 22, 2026
(102) Bangladesh Shipbreaking: 145 Workers Dead, Over 400 Injured In A Decade
February 24, 2026
(101) Winter Rains Flood Thousands Of Tents Sheltering Displaced Civilians In Gaza
December 10, 2025
(100) Bangladesh: Over Half a Million Garment Workers Living In 'Inhumane Conditions' Due to Factory Closures
October 10, 2025
(99) Graveyard Living: Inside The 'Cemetery Slums' Of Manila
August 29, 2025
(98) Doctor Deficit Straining Sierra Leone's Healthcare
June 26, 2025
(97) Myanmar: Thousands Remain In Crisis Weeks After Deadly Earthquakes
April 25, 2025
(96) Death Toll Rises To 30 In Uganda Garbage Dump Landslide
March 10, 2025
(95) Education Crisis In Pakistan Leaves 26 Million Children Out Of School
February 14, 2025
(94) 474 Homeless People Died Due To Winter Exposure In Delhi, Claims NGO
January 16, 2025
(93) Inside The Philippines’ Underground Surrogacy Industry
November 22, 2024
(92) Record Number of Migrants Cross the English Channel In a Single Day
October 7, 2024
(91) Combatting Learning Poverty
September 5, 2024
(90) Leftover Emeralds: The Dream Of Colombia's Poor Miners
August 3, 2024
(89) Ugandan Entrepreneur's Solar Bags Help 12,000 Girls Stay In School
July 19, 2024
(88) Crossing the Darién Gap: Migrants Risk Death on the Journey
June 7, 2024
(87) 282 Million People Faced Acute Hunger in 2023 , UN report.
May 8, 2024
(86) Boiling Weeds, Eating Animal Feed: People In Gaza Stave Off Hunger Any Way They Can
April 3, 2024
(85) Nigeria Facing the Worst Economic Crisis in Its 63-year History
March 10, 2024
(84) Ghana's Economic Crisis Deepens: Soaring Inflation and Poverty
February 28, 2024
(83) Hong Kong’s Wealth Gap Reaches Record High of 57 times: Over 1.36 Million People Struggling In Poverty
January 18, 2024
(82) Pakistan Chulahs: The Smokeless Stoves Empowering Women And Changing Lives
December 20, 2023
(81) 1.7 Million Afghan Refugees Forced To Leave Pakistan Say They Have Nothing
November 14, 2023
(80) Ininnawa: Indonesia’s Remote Island Nurses
October 14, 2023
(79) Argentina Inflation Hits 124% As Cost-Of-Living Crisis Sharpens
September 15, 2023
(78) 122 Million More People Were Hungry in 2022, Bringing The Total to 813 Million
August 9, 2023
(77) World's Slum Populations Set To Surge As Housing Crisis Bites
June 22, 2023
(76) Title 42 Ends With 90,000 Migrants Waiting Near U.S.-Mexico Border
May 13, 2023
(75) Millions Are Trapped In Modern-Day Slavery At Brick Kilns In Pakistan
April 17, 2023
(74) Plastics For Change Foundation India Donates House To Plastic Recyclers
February 26, 2023
(73) 8.1 Million People In Thailand Poor, 4.4 Million Below Poverty Line
January 2, 2023
(72) One Third Of The World’s School-Age Children Have No Internet Access At Home
December 9, 2022
(71) Mobile School On Train Tracks Helps Underprivileged Philippine Children Get An Education
November 5, 2022
(70) One Person Dying Of Hunger Every 4 Seconds
September 22, 2022
(69) Poorest Pakistanis Face Heavy Cost Of Floods
September 15, 2022
(68) Somalia’s Drought Leaves Nearly 7 Million Desperate With Hunger
August 5, 2022
(67) How Urban Gardening Can Help Kampala's Poor
July 30, 2022
(66) World Refugee Day 2022 : Global Displacement Hits a Record 100m
June 22, 2022
(65) Taxing Extreme Wealth Could Lift 2.3 Billion People Out of Poverty
June 3, 2022
(64) 50-foot 'Coffin Homes' Highlight The Scale of Inequality In Hong Kong
May 27, 2022
(63) Congo Nun Overcomes Blackouts With Homemade Hydroelectric Plant
April 26, 2022
(62) Sri Lanka Crisis: 13-Hour Daily Power Cuts, Severe Food And Medicines Shortages, As Country Faces Worst Economic Collapse Since 1948
April 2, 2022
(61) Lava Mae Provides Mobile Showers For Homeless People
March 6, 2022
(60) Entrepreneur Brings Clean, Affordable Energy for Sierra Leone's Rural Areas
January 25, 2022
(59) Turning Human Waste Into Organic Fertilizers
December 31, 2021
(58) 2.4 Million Orphans In Uganda Due To The Extreme Poverty and Civil Conflict
November 27, 2021
(57) 300 Million Children Around The World Don't have Shoes: Kenton Lee Fights Soil-Transmitted Diseases With "Shoe That Grows"
November 20, 2021
(56) Plastic Surgeon Has Performed Over 37,000 Free Cleft Palate Surgeries
November 12, 2021
(55) 70% Of The World's Population Do Not Have Access To Electric Washing Machines
October 29, 2021
(54) "WaterLight" Converts Saltwater And Urine Into Electricity
September 8, 2021
(53) Covid-19 Pandemic Fueling Child Labour : 1 in 10 Children Worldwide Were Engaged In Labour
July 4, 2021
(52) More Than 1 Million People Facing Starvation as Madagascar’s Amid Worst Drought in 40 years
June 9, 2021
(51) India Slum Residents Fear COVID Explosion In Cramped Conditions
May 1, 2021
(50) Wheels to Africa – Sending Bikes to Those Who Need them Most !
March 14, 2021
(49) The Doctor Who Charges Only 3 Cents to Save Lives.
January 2, 2021
(48) Turning Trash Into Light , 1.1 Billion Are Living In The Dark.
December 16, 2020
(47) COVID-19 Pandemic Pushes Up to 150 Million More People Into Extreme Poverty
October 16, 2020
(46) COVID-19: Ugandans' Children, Single Mothers Struggle for Survival
September 13, 2020
(45) Yemen: Millions of Children Facing Deadly Hunger, Amidst Aid Shortages and COVID-19.
July 13, 2020
(44) ‘No Food, No Water, No Masks and No Gloves': Migrant Farm Workers in Spain at Crisis Point.
June 27, 2020
(43) Mobile Camel Library Keeps Ethiopian Children From Forced Labor.
June 14, 2020
(42) Rohingya Refugee Camp Hit By Covid-19 Outbreak.
May 31, 2020
(41) In Poor Countries, The Lockdown Cure Could be Worse than Disease.
April 4, 2020
(40) ‘We Will Starve Here’: India’s Poor Flee Cities in Mass Exodus.
April 1, 2020
(39) This Man Feeds 1200 Orphans Every Month Through His Viral Food Channel.
February 17, 2020
(38) More Than 4 Million People in Canada Struggle to Get Enough to Eat.
January 23, 2020
(37) Is Your Phone Tainted by the Misery of the 35,000 Children in Congo's Mines?
December 17, 2019
(36) 1.4 million Venezuelans had Crossed into Colombia on Foot to Escape Poverty
December 14, 2019
(35) Demand for Cheap Labour Driving Human Trafficking Tragedy of 39 Deaths Driven by Debt.
October 25, 2019
(34) An Estimated 2% of the World's Population (160 million) are Homeless .
September 2, 2019
(33) Poorer than we think: Malaysia's poverty levels far higher than reported, U.N. expert says
August 23, 2019
(32) " Climate Apartheid ", -where the rich pay to save themselves , "while the rest of the world is left to suffer".
July 6, 2019
(31) 600 million people facing acute water shortage in India.
July 1, 2019
(30) ‘Solar Mama’ Edina Levitico on Bringing Solar Power to Malawi Village.
June 18, 2019
(29) World Day Against Child Labour 12 June.
May 23, 2019
(28) Six People Fall Into Extreme Poverty in Nigeria Every Minute.
March 28, 2019
(27) 'Water from air' quenches threatened girls' thirst in arid Kenya .
February 28, 2019
(26) Living in Cages: The Stories Behind Hong Kong’s Housing Crisis.
February 16, 2019
(25) Turning Fog Into Water Transforms Women's Lives in Morocco.
February 13, 2019
(24) The Latest Global Extreme Poverty Numbers from World Bank
January 23, 2019
(23) Fifth of UK population now in poverty amid worst decline for children and pensioners in decades.
January 23, 2019
(22) Kenya: women and girls forced to engage in sex to survive near-famine
December 10, 2018
(21) Hunger, disease has killed 85,000 young children in Yemen War.
November 24, 2018
(20) Having a period is unaffordable in Kenya, yet no one wants to talk about it.
October 13, 2018
(19) KNOW YOUR WORLD: FACTS ABOUT WORLD HUNGER
September 22, 2018
(18) U.S. CEOs now earn 312 times the average worker's wage, figures show
September 18, 2018
(17) Half the world's schools lack clean water, toilets and handwashing.
August 28, 2018
(16) Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter. However, poverty is more, much more than just not having enough money.
August 28, 2018
(15) Shocking Aerial Photos Highlight Wealth Inequality in Cities Worldwide.
August 25, 2018
(14) Inspiring photo of Afghan woman taking university exam while nursing child.
August 25, 2018
(13) Child poverty still rising in Germany, official report shows.
August 25, 2018
(12) In Japan, single mothers struggle with poverty and a ‘culture of shame’.
July 20, 2018
(11) Global Partnership for Education.
July 20, 2018
(10) 'Poverty tourism': Travellers offered night's stay in Mumbai slum.
July 20, 2018
(9) ‘Jakarta’s Princess of the Dump’, who returned to the landfill she once called home to educate & inspire the next generation.
July 7, 2018
(8) Poverty in Hong Kong hits record high, with 1 in 5 children live under the poverty line.
July 7, 2018
(7) China’s path out of poverty can never be repeated at scale by a country again.
July 7, 2018
(6) Student Grows Vegetables On Top Of Landfill To Feed Communities In Need.
June 15, 2018
(5) Little Sun is a project by artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesenand with a mission to bring the sustainable energy to everyone.
May 19, 2018
(4) 100,000 kids in Kenya work as child prostitutes.
May 8, 2018
(3) 82% of money last year went to the world's richest 1% .
April 21, 2018
(2) The population of sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to reach 2b by 2050 and a large percentage of those people are likely to be extremely poor .
April 21, 2018
(1) Only 45% of the world's population have any kind of social protection system.
April 21, 2018