Is Poverty Reduction Possible Without Educational Charity?

If charity services by governments of the world,means that it doesn't matter whatever efforts and
corporate development partners, faith and non profitresources expended on the global fight against these
making organizations, to the poor populations of thethree challenges, nothing will be achieved if
world are intended to achieve a significant reductioneducational charity is not given the required attention
or total eradication of poverty and its associatedas it should.
effects, then educational charity is a pivotal factorLets us look at this example. It doesn't matter how
and the key to success in the global effort to halveyou keep supplying food to a poor rural woman or
the poor populations of the world, or totally eradicateyouth, he or she will still remain poor, and hunger,
hunger, poverty and disease. As a matter of fact,poverty and disease will always continue to hunt him
rendering charity to the poor populations of theor her in your absence. However, the moment you
world without recourse to educational charity is likeempower the poor rural woman or youth to create
passing the head of the Carmel through the eye ofbetter condition for herself or himself, then you have
the needle.completely eradicated poverty and put a final stop to
There is concrete evidence that the primary causethe threats of hunger and disease.
of hunger and disease is poverty. But the primaryHence all that is needed is to equip the poor and the
cause of poverty is illiteracy and ignorance or totalunderprivileged populations with the necessary life
lack of awareness. You can also say that poverty isskills and knowledge packages needed to create a
the total lack of the skill and required knowledgeminimum decent living, through appropriate
package that will be enough to empower a person toeducational curriculum that addresses their very
have access to a minimum decent living withoutproblems. The cheapest way to accomplish this with
reliance or dependence on external aid. The directa commensurate result is through educational charity.
implication of this is that unless one is empoweredThis goes again to illustrate the role and place of
with the necessary skills and knowledge, he or sheeducational charity in poverty reduction, among every
cannot escape poverty, disease and hunger. Soother poverty reduction strategy or model. We can't
education is a necessary condition for povertydo without it if we really mean to save the poor
reduction or for total eradication of poverty. Itfrom the threats of hunger, poverty and disease.