Currently, 648 million people worldwide live on less than $2.15 a day. This is extreme or ultra-poverty. According to the latest official data, released in 2011, 268 million people in India are living in ultra-poverty. Households living in ultra-poverty face unpredictable availability of wage labour, own few or no assets, have limited livelihood prospects, and tend to be food insecure, eating less than 2 meals a day. They. are socially, economically, and geographically isolated. TUIF works in partnership with local organizations and government agencies to identify those in ultra-poverty, connect them to social protection schemes, and design interventions to support them as they break the cycle of intergenerational poverty.