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What does it mean?
Help the poor by enabling them to leave poverty, not by making them comfortable in it.
In plain terms
Give people tools to escape poverty, not just comfort.
What can you take from it?
Empower people to solve their own problems.

Where it applies

  • social policy
  • charity work

Putting it to work

  • fund education and skills

Questions to consider

  • How do you help without enabling?

Another view

Some need immediate relief first.

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