This story is part of a series of portraits exploring how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting people around the world. When Cara McClure was in elementary school, every year at Thanksgiving, the school delivered a box of food and a certificate for Buster Brown shoes to needy families in their small community of Powderly, on the west side of Birmingham, Alabama.One year, the school delivered the box of food to her house. “I didn’t realise we were poor,” she says today at the age of 52. “But it has defined who I am,” adds the activist who would go on to form Faith & Works, a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering marginalised communities.
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