Lisa Nesser says her goal is to provide help for displaced people who are poor and have been denied their human rights.

VOA: special.2010.05.03

She has said that her family was very poor and that she had cockroaches for pets.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

They gave her an old building with poor equipment.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

Tymoshenko opponents express fears of what they perceive as her authoritarian streak and poor economic skills.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

"Emily Dickinson isolated herself from her peers, the wealthy leading families of the town as she got older, but the poor community was in and out."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

But it was her non-stop campaigning for the education of girls, many of them from very poor families, through her Contemporary Life Association, which secured her place in the hearts of thousands of people in Turkey.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20