underprivileged

adj

1. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others, usually through no fault of one's own.

   “Underprivileged, grew up in a Stapleton house village / Where blood flood the water in streets like oil spillage”

noun

1. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

   “Since that time, both Catholicism and the Protestant denominations have seen an enormous outpouring of caritative agencies. Nuns and monks made teaching and care for the underprivileged a central part of their vocation; devout men and women have founded and devoted their lives to institutions as far removed as Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity and the Salvation Army.”