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Sticking plaster solutions to poverty are no longer working
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ACCORDING to a BBC news report dated April 2 2018, malnourished children are attending school hungry, tired, unkempt and have been seen to be hiding food from school canteens to take home to eat.
Poverty has been a largely unreported subject for a long time now and there has always been areas where poverty is much worse than others.
This problem has now become widespread throughout the country, in areas where it was unseen in the past.
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