An impoverished person, wearing a torn brown shirt and no shoes, is kneeling down along the banks of a trash infested body of water.
A poor person in tattered clothes kneels by the trash filled body of water.
A poor person kneels is a restatement of the description that an impoverished person is kneeling.
This is a rephrasing of the same sentence, example impoverished and poor have the same meaning.
An impoverished person is a poor person.