I am not sure where you live at, but where we are at, the poor of the poor are here.  Houses with no utilities, holes in roofs, families with no running water and so on. Yes it is not Africa, but they live in the richest country in the world and our government for over 100 years have allowed them to be captives by coal companies that did not treat them fairly and they gave them a government welfare system that enslaves, not empowers. Sounds like poverty to me, sound like this area needs hope.