she doesn't look poor. She appears to have messy hair but looks like it has been cut and the face is pretty clean. Let just hope she isn't poor but the eyes are trying to tell a story
This is a nice photo, but i don't feel it's about poverty. If i saw this outside of the challenge, i would never think this is supposed to associate with poverty. The girl looks pretty happy, if maybe concerned or amuzed by something. 5.
From her face you can see she is either confused or sad or scared a bit. If there was more context it would've been very helpful. Now I can see a worried chiled, not the poor one. But it is a nice photo. Maybe you shouldn't have crop it so much. I feel a little bit more of air would've been better. 7 for a very nice portrait.
She looks curious, not suffering so I can“t really see where you are going with this. The shot however is a great portrait, just definately not a winner in this competition but I bet it would have done great if it had been a portrait competition.