extreme poverty

The cycle of poverty refers to a self-perpetuating pattern in which individuals or families experience poverty and find it difficult to escape from it. It involves a combination of economic, social, and psychological factors that create barriers and keep people trapped in poverty across generations.

Here, in the UK, talk of the cost of living crisis naturally centres on how families are struggling with day-to-day life in this country. However, the cost of living crisis also affects communities living in poorer countries, with an estimated 71 million people falling into poverty as a result of rising food and fuel prices.

With so much going on, it's hard to remember what happened last week or last month. That's why we wanted to go back through 2022 in pictures - our year, one photograph at a time.

From the Middle East to sub-Saharan Africa, here are nine amazing women that we’ve had the honour to meet.

In 2015, the G7 leaders met in Schloss Elmau, Germany, and committed to 'lift 500 million people in developing countries out of hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Seven years since then, a lot has changed, and global hunger has worsened. This year, the G7 leaders will meet again at the end of June, at the same place.

We are in the middle of our UK aid match programme in the Central African Republic. Here is what we have achieved so far.

May 28 marks World Hunger Day; a day that aims to raise awareness of the dramatic rise in hunger in recent years. A number of factors are causing this increase in global hunger. But the effect? The lives of millions of women and girls are seriously jeopardized.  

At the start of this week the UK government released its much delayed International Development Strategy. What does this strategy say and what will it mean for people living in poverty?