Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
Poverty is not just about income: it's about aspiration. It's not just about giving people a couple of extra pounds a week, welcome though that is.
Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
A common measure of poverty is how much money you have in relation to other people - that is useful as far as it goes, but that excludes the case of, say, a hunter in the rainforest who has no money but is not poor. And there can be a number of people with money but who can consider themselves unwanted or invisible or estranged from society.
Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure, antisocial behaviour, debt problems and addiction, and of course it's about work.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Poverty is an artificial, external imposition on a human being; it is not innate in a human being. And since it is external, it can be removed. It is just a question of doing it.
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.
It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.
Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty.
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