- Create and Improve access to jobs
- Raise the minimum wage
- Expand Medicaid
- Providing Access to Healthcare
- Improve Food Security and Access to Clean Water
- Increase access to education
- Equality and representation for all
Increase Access to Education
-Access to high quality primary education and supporting child well-being is a globally recognized solution to the cycle of poverty. This is, in part, because it also addresses many of the other issues can keep communities vulnerable.
-Education is often referred to as the great equalizer: It can open the door to jobs, resources, and skills that a family needs to not just survive, but thrive.
1. EDUCATION DEVELOPS SKILLS AND ABILITIES
A quality education system supports a child’s developing social, emotional, cognitive and communication skills. Education programs also support the development of knowledge and abilities (i.e., human assets).
2. EDUCATION CAN FIGHT INEQUALITY
One of the biggest inequalities that perpetuates the cycle of poverty is gender. When gender inequality in the classroom is addressed, this has a ripple effect on the way women are treated in their communities.
3. EDUCATION CAN DECREASE RISK AND VULNERABILITY
In many of the countries where we work, the lives and livelihoods of the extremely poor are often tied into conflict, epidemics, and natural disasters. These can act as “force multipliers,” or elements that increase the likelihood that poverty will continue for the poorest countries.