underprivileged

Example Sentences

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The Society for Community Organisation, an NGO that works with underprivileged groups, said the reform could help alleviate some of the worst living environments in Hong Kong.

From Barron's • May 28, 2026

More than 400 underprivileged neighbourhoods and villages are visited each month, sites often overlooked by public health services.

From Barron's • May 27, 2026

The casualties include Bijay Ghimere, the first mountaineer from Nepal's underprivileged Hindu Dalit community to scale Mount Everest.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

He is the director of Camp Harmony, a nonprofit, volunteer-run sleepaway camp that provides free, weeklong summer experiences for underprivileged children ages 7 to 12, hosting about 400 per season.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chaplain’s job much better than the chaplain was doing it and viewed himself, therefore, as an underprivileged victim of social inequity.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller