Most families owned slaves as household servants and labourers, and even poor families might have owned a few slaves.

The fashion today is to integrate poor households into flourishing communities.

Most of them come from very optionless families, not just poor.

That, in turn, deprives poor families of much needed income.

In many instances, road accidents rob poor families of their breadwinner.

The increase was more pronounced among the non indigent poor than among the non poor (except in rural areas of the Pacific region, where it declined among the non indigent poor but increased among the non poor).

A bride price or dowry can also be a much needed windfall for desperate families.

This right as assistance to impoverished families is not fulfilled in the other cantons.

In 2003, the ratio of poor households was brought down to only 11.8 .

Last but not least, we must provide loans to poor families to help them build a respectable life.

Poor families lack access to contraception and family planning.

Specially targeted are children under five from poor families and poor pregnant women.

The result is a growing youth unemployment crisis among poor and working class youth.

In February 2007, The New York Times reported that 53 percent of the impoverished families in Israel were Arabs.

(Afghanistan) providing training to promote vegetable cultivation at kitchen gardens among impoverished families repairing water channels for irrigation measures.

Ms. Atabay (Turkey) said that in the 2002 2003 academic year, the Government had provided free textbooks to students from poor families and had established primary boarding schools for children from poor families and primary school age children in villages and settlements that did not have any schools.

And free mid day meals at school are a powerful incentive to children from poor families to attend school and stay there.

Poor rural families see too many of their children become prostitutes in order to survive.

Finally, poor families have many children as a kind of insurance policy against high child mortality rates.

This year, 500,000 families will be involved in Colombia's programme poor families that receive a State subsidy to feed and educate their children.

All sectors of the population were affected however, poor families, and Palestinian women in particular, suffered the most.5

Poor health and nutrition in the early years of life perpetuate the cycle of poverty and intergenerational under achievement for poor families and societies.

Primary education is free, but related expenses, such as uniforms, books and annual school fees are a financial strain on poor families.

Clear cut gains exist only for a few commodities, such as cotton and sugar, which are not consumed in large quantities by poor households.

It is critically important that this does not lead to a new lost decade of development, and that poor households especially children do not suffer as they did in the 1980 s.

When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.

In poor households, they are also likely to receive less food than boys, placing their physical health and development at even greater risk.

Major challenges at present are the ratio of poor households remains high mainly in the rural, upland and ethnic minority areas which are faced with economic and social difficulties.

Within this new approach, the Government, in collaboration with CSOs, professional organizations, universities as well as poor families, launched a poverty eradication movement.

AIDS is also having long term economic effects on agriculture by reducing the available workforce, and is creating new vulnerabilities to famine by overburdening poor households.

Poverty, disparities and gender based and other inequalities are underlying factors preventing families from ensuring care and protection for their children in most poor countries.

Favelas, or metropolitan slum.

Donations to TeleFood are used to fund small, self contained agriculture, livestock and fisheries projects that help poor families produce more food.

Red Cross chapters across Africa, in partnership with other organizations, are now distributing bed nets free of charge to impoverished families, in the same way that Rotary has been distributing polio vaccines.

The ratio of poor households accessing credit loans is relatively high, especially in the Northern mountainous areas (such as Tuyen Quang, Thai Nguyen, Hoa Binh and Ha Giang).

Mr. Sadykov (Kazakhstan) said that his Government assigned priority to poverty eradication, employment of women, aid to poor families, development of small and medium sized businesses, and large scale social programmes.

It is further concerned at the high incidence of malnutrition and that significant numbers of poor families lack access to services, including safe drinking water and sanitation facilities, which contributes to the spread of communicable diseases.

Trokosi, forced marriage, genital mutilation trafficking in women and children and abuse of vidomegon (girls sent by poor families to wealthy homes) were all prohibited by law.

Within the context of economic assistance for the education of children from poorer families, a temporary special measure had been implemented, according to which the level of assistance provided was higher for girls than for boys.

Key result area 5 seeks to reduce the number of children separated from their families and strengthen national capacities to ensure access by poor families to services and safety nets needed to protect and care for their children.

Access to good education, and even more so to the labor market, is increasingly restricted for many young people, especially those who come from poor or single parent families or from minority ethnic backgrounds, languages, or religions.

Moreover, poor households have reduced food consumption, with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization estimating that nearly one billion people are hungry and malnourished.

Even more threatened than children from poor families are orphans and those entrusted with their care by the social welfare system, because all these systems are too weak in material terms to provide proper care.

According to the Bank of Social Policy, by December 2002, woman headed poor households accessing to credit loan accounted for 60 (increased by 20 as compared to the third and fourth reports).

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