Quick Routes to Victory
The Millennium Project's partial list of quick ways wealthy nations can help improve life
for people living in dire poverty.

  • Eliminating school fees to ensure that all children, especially girls, are not out of
    school because of their families poverty.

  • Providing impoverished farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with affordable
    replenishments of soil nitrogen and other soil nutrients.

  • Providing free school meals for all children using locally produced foods with take-
    home rations.

  • Training large numbers of village workers in health, farming, and infrastructure
    (in one-year programs) to ensure basic expertise and services in rural villages.

  • Distributing free, long-lasting, insecticide-treated bed-nets to all children in malaria-
    endemic zones.

  • Eliminating user fees for basic health services.

  • Setting up funding to finance community-based slum upgrading and earmark idle
    public land for low-cost housing.

  • Providing access to electricity, water, sanitation, and the Internet for all hospitals,
    schools.

  • Providing community-level support to plant trees to provide soil nutrients,
    fuelwood, shade, fodder, watershed protection, windbreak, and timber.

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