I helped a friend today. After seeing her excitement over a job well done, i felt bad. I think i care in quenchless desire to completely stop. Why can't school work be interesting enough to distract?
In China, approximately 200 million people live on less than $1 a day. That’s almost twice the population of Mexico. China’s income gap is one of the most severe among developing countries worldwide. The economic boom has enriched China's urban areas with public services and employment opportunities, while leaving rural incomes and living standards stagnant. As a result, these rural residents lack the basic infrastructure necessary for development.
Microfinance, commonly defined as providing loans to poor people to help them start small businesses, offers one of the best solutions to global poverty. For example, a seamstress might borrow money to buy a sewing machine. This business generates stable income, which gives the seamstress and her family access to healthcare, improved housing, or perhaps most importantly, education. By empowering people to take control of their own lives, microfinance differs from the cycle of dependency created by previous methods of poverty alleviation.
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