1.   For forty years villagers have streamed into its fetid blocks, seeking to escape rural poverty.

2.   People come to the capital seeking to escape rural poverty.

3.   They are economic migrants, escaping terrible poverty in their home country.

4.   Also there were descendants of Irish immigrants who came to America to escape poverty.

5.   Although Granada has not escaped the poverty that has overwhelmed Nicaragua, it is in better shape than almost any other city in the country.

6.   A few years ago, a study of Grameen borrowers showed that one-third had escaped poverty.

7.   But relatively few have escaped poverty.

8.   But without other forms of government housing help, the poorest who are excluded from public housing will never be able to escape poverty.

9.   But while they are homeless, she says, they need to be in school to acquire the skills to escape poverty.

10.   Finally they do marry -- and they escape poverty.