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Poverty has many faces, but its most common face is that of a woman, like 54-year-old Geneviève Baert, who lives in Belgium. Losing the family business when she was a teenager and caring for five children as a single mother pushed her into poverty. “I had a period when I was poor and I didn’t know it,” she says in an interview with Euronews. But aid networks pushed her to “fight in a different way, with other weapons” and prevented her from blaming herself. “It’s society that doesn’t put things around me so that I can evolve,” she says. She is one of the 95.3 million people in the European Uni…