According to us we would define poverty as the state of  not having enough resources to meet our daily needs in a family, community or society. Where we either have little or nothing in order for us to survive. 

Experts define poverty in these following ways:

Firstly, Townsend defines poverty "as a group of people that does not have resources to obtain specific diets, who cannot engage activities which are customary or that are accepted their societies. They are being excluded from the everyday running’s of the community". They look at the social exclusion and the levels of income.

Secondly, Levitas defines it as “when there is a lack of resources, rights, goods and services in order to be part of the normal day to day functioning of the society". Poverty has an impact on their social relationships as they are affected by age, race, gender as well as their employment status.