In Rwanda alone, more than a million people have overcome poverty in the past six years.
Only the creation of wealth can truly overcome poverty and this depends on individual effort.
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What sets YES apart from other well-intentioned programs is the attention that goes into helping these students overcome poverty and poor schooling.
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The fund Lula wants to set up with oil revenues could, as he says, help Brazil to overcome poverty, low standards in education and limited investment in science and technology.
The nine million people represent almost one quarter of the population who had overcome poverty between 2002 and 2008 (41 million), thanks to higher economic growth, to the expansion of social spending, to a booming population and to better distributions, according to the study.
Proceeds go to help developing nations overcome debt and poverty.
But despite the financial safeguards in place in Chad, charities remain sceptical that the project can help overcome the extreme poverty facing many of the country's eight million people.
If the African-American community also sees the power of the ballot to overcome other historical obstacles such as entrenched poverty, widening wealth, education gaps and safer streets where it's not as easy for a criminal to get a gun as it is to buy a cigarette, then this expansion of its voting power will be a more permanent fixture on the political scene.
The Andrea Bocelli Foundation seeks to raise funds and awareness for its efforts to fight poverty around the world and to help people overcome barriers caused by illness, discomfort or disability.
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Poverty, teenage pregnancies and alcoholism are very hard to overcome where there are no jobs or prospects.
MONTERREY, Mexico (CNN) -- Leaders at the inauguration of a 34-nation Summit of the Americas Monday expressed optimism that seemingly intractable issues of poverty, trade and corruption in Latin America and the Caribbean could be overcome.
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