Eliminating Poverty in Southeast Asia

The total population of the world is six billion. One quarter of the world's population-1.5 billion people-are living in extreme poverty. South Asia is a region in which many of these people are living. Every day, thousands of people in this region go hungry. Most cities have poor sanitation, and little to no public works, all due to poor economy. Despite these extreme conditions, there is hope for South Asia. In order to improve the …

…from disaster less devastating, whether from national crises or in individual cases. This could be accomplished by two things; social organizations for individuals, like shelters for poor women, or homes for the homeless, etc., and the other thing is organizations for national crises, like earthquakes, and taking measures against economic destruction, like a recession, and social ones, like a civil war or violent conflicts because the poor always get hit the hardest by these events.