The idea is to provide extremely poor people with small loans so they can start and operate a business.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

He says he was shocked by the way poor people in Port-au-Prince lived when he first visited in nineteen eighty-one.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Microfinance provides poor people with a way to build savings and work toward becoming part of a country's official financial system.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

He was a writer who used all his energy to make the world a better place for poor people.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Charitable organizations then will give the cheese - more than 60 million dollars' worth - to poor people.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Clemente's work helping poor people, especially those in Puerto Rico, became a very important part of his life.

VOA: special.2010.04.11

When this happens, poor people have to tighten their belts and live on less money than usual.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

There are still some public housing apartments for poor people, but many fewer than in the past.

VOA: special.2009.04.27

Organizations around the world are showing how microfinance methods can help lift poor people out of poverty.

VOA: special.2010.06.16

He wants to give poor people in developing countries a simple way to improve their lives.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

Doctor Winkel says antivenom treatment is too costly for many poor people who need it most.

VOA: special.2009.05.05

In nineteen sixty-eight, Martin Luther King was planning to lead a Poor People's March on Washington.

VOA: special.2011.01.17

Johns Hopkins hospital provided care for poor people who could not pay for medical treatment.

VOA: special.2010.07.21

He believed America should be a place that belongs to rich and poor people alike.

VOA: special.2010.06.20