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Faith and Charity serving your Poverty needs since and until forever.

Since 1954 this one conglomeration of divine intent has probably had at least 200 million people of faith offering $10 a year. Over 40 years that is $80 billion dollars. Honestly I imagine this is a fairly conservative estimate, because they refer to themselves as international and people are actually more generous than that.

$80,000,000,000

You can purchase a water well drill for $12,000.00 500 of them would cost $6 million. As you fix one place, they would likely want to pass the good fortune along. That's how you keep the good things going.

Personally, I would buy the patent rights for some water purification system and allow the people to build their own machines for water purification. Pipes for running in-house water would come later without any help.

However, you can apparently buy a commercial-style reverse-osmosis system for $5k or so. 3400 of these systems would at least get you well started. $17 million plus $6 million makes $23 million.

You would want to filter all the water used in the community, business and residential and reclaim any chemicals that were used to be repurposed and good clean water goes back out. To do otherwise is like throwing away money. As you haven't begun yet toxicity should not be an inherent problem.

So Water: $23 million... and be smart about it

$20 billion in high quality seeds that reproduce true. This is a high dollar figure and you may not spend that much. Keep in mind, you don't have to buy seed twice if you get good quality. So getting the best and plenty of it would be a good investment.

So $20,023,000,000 total so far.

There is a natural selection process when dealing with seed. You keep the ones that produce the most fruit for the soil and conditions in your area. It takes one season to figure this out, sometimes two.

Some plants will resist insects and even thrive in dry conditions naturally, if they are accustomed to it. It's an improve, improve, well, that's about all we can do and how do you like it kind of process.

The most flavorful would probably be the next selection made regarding food. This is often left to the gardener. When the particular variety becomes popular among gardeners, or restaurants, farmers might then also pick it up and see if it looks like good opportunity, if they can get it to produce in quantity, while maintaining the flavor the people like.


I have things growing in very sandy soil. With no petroleum products or other weird chemicals. I've been shocked at how much fruit they are willing to produce. It takes more water to get it started than it does once the soil becomes more complex.

In a few years, once it has been compost-treated into the loamy type of soil it will probably take half the water it does now and produce even more.

Gardeners help with this process also, finding the right soil-water-sun mixture for the area. Thinner soil would allow the plant's roots to burn and wither from the heat in high desert like this one.

In particularly arid areas greenhouses could be employed while the soil itself is being worked with to adjust it and improve its fertility naturally.

You can make glass that reduces the impact of the sun on things, and that concentrates the effect of the sun more. We should take advantage of these technologies to ensure that there's plenty for all of us.

Hunger is horror, especially when some of us have so much and so much technology to stop it.

You can buy an 8 by 12 structure to assemble yourself for $800 or so. Therefore, for an 80 by 120 structure, I expect you might have to spend $10k to build it. If you have volunteers from the area it might cost even less. It's for their own use anyway. So, 60,000 commercial greenhouses could be built for $600 million.

Greenhouse soil is a separate subject, probably be relative to the area and can be created from decaying plant life, and other waste products. So, I'll double the price of the greenhouses to $1,200,000,000.

So $21,223,000,000 total with greenhouses and soil.

You would pay a few salaries, of course, and would need an initial food and water supply to get started, plus other tools, and that patent if you were me. I'd double the whole thing for convenience sake, $42,466,000,000 total in today's dollars.

Let's just say $45 billion and be done.

Building and infrastructure is mostly a knowledge exchange. Most places on earth have their own materials. If they are so far in the desert that you have to ship everything in you probably want to help them move instead and then use some anti-desertification methods to reclaim the area. We don't have to ship in marble from far away to build a house.

When a man is fed, he'll build whatever else he needs on his own, if he knows how to and has the material. The material we use to weave clothing also grows like food, so the seeds for that would also need to be purchased once.

Once you've completed the water, food, and shelter, the rest is just what the people there want to do for themselves. You can offer educational materials, particularly regarding the full circle of production and reclaimation, but it's up to them what they accept and reject. Your job is done.

Not everyone wants to live in New York City and have a high-power executive job. People want a good life by their own definition. A really good life usually involves a lot of learning. Learning what is expands the options there are to select from.

One generation later, or less, you get your full return on investment. Places that used to have very little for themselves now begin to export things like art, unusual food stuffs, new additions to the science fields, technologies, medicines, and so on. Everyone wins.

I have to think that if they intended to fix the problems they talk about they would have already done it.

Regional politics, and social unrest can absolutely prevent an organization from being able to assist. I won't deny that. A junta would just snatch the money, say thanks, and ask for more for his friends.

Your $45 billion wouldn't go far in that environment.

The leadership in many of the areas they claim to serve has changed several times since 1954. Nonetheless, I really think by now you could have gotten a good, peaceable word in, so you could do you work of allowing people to eat well, and live comfortably by their own effort.

Imagine a world where all people were so empowered that charity as we know it was replaced by just caring for one another like humane persons.