i am a teacher and so i say, education is the key although I know that the poverty-education cycle is a vicious one. they are not educated because they are poor and they remain poor and the generations to follow because they are not educated. its a very difficult cycle to get out from and the government and advocates in the private sector are the keys in empowering them. its not too late. they need to be educated so they can be entrepreneurs and earn what they work hard for. there is hope.