Director Monica Strømdahl’s “Flophouse America” provides a visceral documentation of poverty in America. Flophouses are cheap, run-down motels where many people are forced to live when they cannot ...

Norwegian director Monica Strømdahl spent years traveling across the United States, documenting life in cheap hotels also known as flophouses. Then in 2017, she met 11-year-old Mikal in a hotel lobby.

It has been easy to dismiss efforts to raise the prospects of the world’s poorest as an abject failure. The United Nations reported 712 million people living in extreme poverty in 2022, 23 million ...

Did you know that 28.5 million Kenyans are living in abject poverty, an increase of 15 per cent since 2013? These disturbing statistics were revealed in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) fact ...

The Attorney General of Ghana, Dr Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, has shared a deeply personal account of his childhood, revealing that he grew up in extreme poverty and only entered formal education much ...