Poverty

Sarina Horner, a 17-year-old senior at Forsyth Country Day School, holds a fistful of tampons as she sits for a portrait on her bed on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Lewisville NC.

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In this photo taken on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, a homeless person talks with a social worker on the shower bus, run by the Greek Praksis, an NGO, in central Athens.

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A rough sleeper lays on a mattress as a makeshift bed, in Whitechapel, east London on September 28, 2023.

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A view of Visocica hill near the central Bosnian town of Visoko,some 30 km (18 miles) north of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Thursday, April 13, 2006.

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A few stores in Rome allows those in need to get goods for free

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Members of the "Collective for solidarity between homeless women" occupy the cultural centre of the association life as a shelter in Villeurbanne, France, 9 Nov 2023

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An elderly man looks at the 14th-century town hall 'Palazzo Vecchio' (Old Palace) in Florence, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022.

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A woman holds her child to beg for money near Taksim Square in, Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, June 18, 2013.

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