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I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

I was very poor when I was young.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly household work in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty.

I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.