For surviving on the threshold of poverty requires a good dose of ingenuity, courage, self-discipline and resistance. You cannot waste any opportunity to earn money. Like adult members of the family, inactive children and old people often have to work in exchange for subsistence income. Any illness or accident is a disaster. Hunger reigns at all times. The repair of the roof, the purchase of clothes or real estate, and even of notebooks and pencils for the school, are big investments.

Women and children tend to sacrifice more when food is scarce or more to decide how many children in the family will be able to go to school. The relatives, neighbors and friends who can help us out are very supportive. It is very difficult to find the time, the resources and the energy necessary to learn a trade that can increase the diminished family income. It is very difficult for a family to have a good time when the worry of finding enough food for the next meal is always present.

For this it is necessary to know the needs of the people so that the programs that are contemplated are the solutions to those needs.

Develop programs for people who are trained in the commerce sector. That is why we must generate associative forms so that the formality of these works is achieved, since if we only give what they require at the moment such as medicines, food or water service we will only give them a help for a moment and after they run out that help they fall back into the same need again, it's like giving them "Bread for today and hunger for tomorrow".

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