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Poverty Alleviation: A global effort
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Poverty Alleviation is a Millennium Development Goal (Number 1). It is
closely related to all of the other 7 goals.
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Give a man a fish - feed him
for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for
a lifetime.
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Poor people need very little; Clean drinking water, Food, Energy (fuel),
and Sanitation
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Sustainability has to be a key part of any
efforts to alleviate poverty. Billions of dollars have been spent on projects
designed to help poor people around the world, yet poverty remains widespread.
Some of the paths followed have not been sustainable: The poor man continues to
be given "a fish", and each time, he is "fed for a day".
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Innovative solutions to some of the problems
affecting poor people have been developed, but are underutilised. Poor exchange
of information has been part of the problem. The internet helps cover this gap.
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The SuSPAS project aims to:
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Use the power of the internet to
search for poverty alleviating ideas and solutions that appear to be sustainable
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Create a database of these
solutions and draw attention to their existence in order to help promote uptake
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Evaluate some of the more
promising ideas, and provide feedback
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Develop demo centres for
villagers and village heads to visit and see some of these solutions at work, in
order to encourage uptake. This will be developed along a "dream village"
concept, where a set of solutions designed to make a village self sufficient are
developed together (in one place).
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Please read this article:
The
Financial Diaries: Investigating the Financial Lives of the Poor in South
Africa (2005).
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