Patience, vision must to eradicate poverty: TBHF

Alya Obaid Al Musaiebi, Director of The Big Heart Foundation (TBHF), on the occasion of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty wrote, “every October, the world pauses to revisit numbers that have become painfully familiar. More than 800 million people live on less than three dollars a day, and by 2030, nearly sixty percent of the world’s poorest are expected to live in fragile or conflict-affected regions.”

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“These figures return year after year, losing their weight with repetition, yet behind each one there is a human story, a face, a dream interrupted before it had the chance to unfold.”

“I remember a young girl I met in a refugee camp. She held onto a torn book as if it were her only bridge to the life she imagined for herself. She had survived the noise of war and the silence of displacement, but poverty remained her most unrelenting obstacle.”