Tag: Poverty
Independent Africa
Poverty pushes Afghan children to work at brick kilns
Nabila works 10 hours or more a day, doing the heavy, dirty labour of packing mud into moulds and hauling wheelbarrows full of bricks....
News
380,000 workers experience food insecurity, poverty, and unemployment -GSS
About 380,000 people (15 and older) who are in the labor force are simultaneously food insecure, multidimensionally poor, and unemployed.On Thursday, September 1, 2022,...
News
I dropped out of Accra Poly level 200 because of extreme poverty – Lady reveals
Ruby Venson is a victim of a financial catastrophe; her life came crumbling down after her father's death. She had big dreams of being...
News
About 80,000 persons in Greater Accra Region classified as poor, vulnerable
About 80,000 persons within the Greater Accra Region have been classified as poor and vulnerable.This was announced by the Ghana National Household Registry of...
World
‘I sold my hair for $2 to feed my children’
The day Prema Selvam sold her hair for 150 rupees ($2; £1.50) in order to feed her young children was the worst of her...