When are these underdeveloped countries going to learn that the way out of poverty is education. The first thing dictators do is kill the educated people because you cannot enslave an educated population. That is why there were laws passed in the slavery era in America that forbade the teaching of slaves to read. (Often, however they could not do it because the master's children sometimes innocently taught the slave children.)

The governments need to make education right behind health care as priorities. They have got to get their priorities straight. The education must be free of tuition and uniforms so that it is accessible to all including children who have disabilities and children who are forced to work. It needs to be equally available to both boys and girls. Although they might have to start with those serving as teachers being poorly educated themselves, but at least that is a start because the teachers can teach everything they know and the aid groups can teach the teachers.

Until this happens where children are educated at least to a level of functional literacy--enough so that they can learn more on their own by reading, there will always be extreme poverty, genocide, early death and hopelessness.