Finding the real solutions to poverty actually depends on reducing or eliminating the factor that are causing it. Depending on country and their developmental state cause of poverty differentiates variedly. The reason for majority of poverty in India and the cause of minority poverty in America or Britain is never similar.

As the poverty still continues to spike without proper case study poverty of certain place never be eliminated. The long history and the anti-poverty measures that has been used till date has never been able to make real difference. Poverty in poor countries and poverty in rich countries completely contrasts with each other. While poverty is of two forms where daily basic needs are met with difficulty and where there is absolute poverty without any hope of having two meals a day. Following same old traditional technique will never manage to make real dent in ginormous poverty circle.

Organizations have managed to understand the concept behind eradicating traditional measures and starting the concept of practical and technical knowledge. Solutions to poverty has always been empowering people rather than making them dependent on materials provided to them. Organizations and government have focused on educating people with technical ideas rather than handing out materials which lasts them for few months. Information is available everywhere and with online website like Practical Answers providing its useable and technical resources reducing poverty might be possible.

Accessing online resources is not possible by people who are surviving in marginal state but with help from organizations it is possible to share such knowledge. Practical Answers is a technical information centre which is well known for wide collection of resources provided free of cost.

Eliminating poverty is a difficult tasks and reaching out to resources only is not enough as they have to be implemented and documented. Helping people should be a moral duty of every person and direct help is never the right way of making difference as technical knowledge has to be provided to empower them in real way. Poverty is a difficult and extremely painful state and knowledge is the only way of truly unfettering way of making changes.

 

Energy efficient homes are often not considered by most of the people during the time of building a new home or remodeling an old one. But building an energy efficient home means investing ones energy and money in more durable and comfortable home in long-run. If people are building new homes, planning to build houses with renewable energy system which can provide electricity, cooling and heating can help people to save much larger income.

Ideas on building or constructing energy efficient houses must be given a thought by everyone including people living in some of the remotest regions of the world. The process for building energy efficient houses start with making energy efficient house design which can be little tricky to most people but with help from guides and manuals they can be easily done. Construction of energy efficient houses could be more beneficial to rural remote regions of developing countries as they can save financially and have all the advantage.

In the information provided by Practical Answers, a free technical information centre, it looks at the house-design which could prove to be very beneficial for people dwelling in African regions where summer is all year round. A lot of people might get confused and think that building energy efficient house might require lot of investment but an efficient house is much more profitable in long haul. The guide given by Practical Answers provides light in same matter as it shows simplest methods of building house in right direction and with windows in proper place.

For example let us consider a house with solar panels fitted onto it as the panels will be enough to generate electricity for entire household. It will also be able to use for solar water heating technique and one could easily have access to hot water through-out the year. Designing an energy efficient houses which allows people to have better and comfortable homes is easy and requires certain ideas.   Energy efficient should be made more approachable among people of poorer countries as it can improve their living standard in major way. Energy development is need for everyone houses which can utilize such energy can have loads of benefits in long-run.

As millions of people have only solid fuels as their daily energy utilization, everyone is known to the fact that cook-stoves are the only fire place where they cook. Cook-stoves are nothing like the modern stove and equipment that we are used to in our daily lives. Using clay and stones cook-stoves are made in rural areas and they are neither sustainable nor efficient.

Cook-stoves are much safer option in comparison to open fires which are still very much in use in various parts of the world. Open fires are very much dangerous and reason for various diseases. Rural remote regions have always suffered fuel shortage for everyday cooking purpose and collecting solid fuels are usually women’s job but it is fraught with dangers as they are in threat of life attacks. Gathering firewood and other solid fuels are much needed activity to feed their families even though they are in danger. With firewood only being their fuel source they are slowly depleting in many areas leading to women to travel further distance and digging up the roots which eliminates chances of trees growth again.

Women are always as various different risks as they have to engage themselves in kitchen for hours in smokes and fumes which are life-threatening. Practical Answers tackle such problems by providing its resources for making more fuel-efficient wood stoves. Constructing better stoves provides people with many benefits as they reduce the utilization of firewood and lessens the chances of smoke formation. Practical Answers has been working to provide people with information on better construction of cook-stoves.

Having no proper access to energy sources is already a major problem in remote developing regions and in such condition using more solid fuels only creates more problems. A better cook-stove does lessen the problem to certain extent and making it is easy as well with help from Practical Answers guide. Taking an initiative to develop community based programs to educate women on making improved cook stoves allows them to share knowledge and may even create job opportunity to improve their socio-economic life.

Indoor pollution is said to be one of the most indirect killers in many indigent countries and regions of the developing world and only few thousand people know the fact that over 4 million deaths occur every year from the illness attributed by indoor household pollution generated from solid fuels burning.

Health risks of indoor air pollution have been the main agenda caused by solid fuel burning including environmental pollution. When inefficient and poorly built cook-stoves are used to burn traditional biomass in poorly ventilated rooms, smokes gets trapped within the house being responsible for nearly 1.6 million deaths among which women and children are in highest ranks. In most of the developing countries smoke i.e. indoor pollution ranks as the fourth highest risk factor that contributes to death, diseases and health related problems.

Indoor pollution and health risks for people goes hand-in-hand and without help or awareness people living in these regions will never be able to get out from this cycle of poverty and health problems. changes has to be made in order to improve such massive population lives and that can only be done through knowledge on technical aspects of reducing indoor pollution. Providing renewable energy would be the best way to help people and solar energy biogas could be made easily available to people. But since many countries and people can’t afford such energy alternative measures of cooking in improved stoves and building chimneys could reduce indoor pollution up to 70%.

With technical guidelines provided by Practical Answers thousands of people have got chance to improve their health and life by getting ideas on indoor smoke reduction. Online resources from various organizations can be found easily but Practical Answers resources consists of various materials in form of audios, videos and documentaries which makes it more approachable option to even illiterate peoples. One doesn’t necessarily have to use Practical Answers guidelines but it does help in lot more ways and allows people to have easy access to it informational guidelines. Risk of indoor air pollution is extremely high in developing regions and people living in such vulnerability can only be helped through ideas and knowledge on reducing them.

Almost all people living in rural remote regions of developing countries use solid fuels as their major energy source for everyday household purpose facing difficulty in breathing, stinging eye-burn, throat closing and risks of various respiratory lungs diseases. Developing renewable energy requires support from government and organization because of the poverty that surrounds these regions.

Establishing solar coking technology might face challenges when it comes to rural remote areas. Even though people might go through difficulty of smoke inhalation every day they might not have idea on how the smoke really affects their respiratory system and might become a cause for their deaths. These barriers that people put up when it comes to making use of renewable energy can only be solved if they are educated and generalized in advantages of using new and better energy source. People should be made clear on how solar cooking and health are related with each other.

Solar energy sustains our earth and through its use electrical power can be generated as well but only very people living in remote regions have idea on its cooking use as well. Cooking process is not complicated as solar cookers are directly used to prepare food like any other time but the advantage of no stirring, blackening of pot, elimination of smoke and proper cooking of food comes along with it. Solar energy already has advantage to it as at first it eliminates use of solid fuels nullifying the chances of respiratory diseases which nearly kill 2 million people annually especially women and children.

Information acts a key when it comes to easing up the process of using solar energy for cooking. Practical Answers is a free information service provider on various resources which can be used to uplift people’s living standard. Its materials on “solar cooking and health” points out all the merits of solar cooking along with solutions for complications that might arise. Countries like India and Nepal has risen above in solar cooking and other developing countries can use it as well. Through small financial support and information every household in developing regions can have efficient and sustainable energy source for household purpose.

The approach in which risk and vulnerabilities of disasters are systematically approached, identified, assessed and reduced is known as Disaster risk reduction (DRR). Its main aim is to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities of disaster and deals with environmental hazards that come along with the disaster. Historically lots of countries and regions have continuously suffered from disasters enduring devastating consequences leading to establishment of disaster risk reduction.

Disaster Risk Reduction is much broader concept than just helping people beforehand of disaster but in case of developing countries it is mostly related with educating people in community-based programs on various risk reduction strategies. Developed countries are always at the front in case of such critical planning but developing and poor countries lack such facility. In such case various international NGOs and INGOs work to assist people in understanding disaster risk reduction.

Information should reach to people before the disaster strike but that is not the case most of the time, as people get aware after they face the difficulties of disaster. Same thing happened in Nepal as a major earthquake devastated everything leaving people stranded in the path of development. Thousands of death and more than that number became homeless with people not having idea on disaster risk reduction the devastation was much more than anticipated.

Education on disaster risk reduction enables people to act according to the disaster and protect them but most importantly it allows people to act beforehand and build better. Lots of organizations provide information relating to disaster risk reduction but it is essential that it reaches to people in time. While talking about resources, Practical Answers being a web-based information center has been providing its resources. Its resources on hundreds of topics has been able to reach millions of people and in case of disaster risk reduction, it provides it People Centered Resource (PCR) approach which allows people to focus on community-based developmental activities rather than single activities.

Disaster risk reduction strategies should focus on community as it allows people to work together for building a better and sustainable environment. Allowing people get educated on such materials helps them in building better life and future.

 

With more forms of energy being developed to fulfill the demand of people, millions of people are still living in energy crisis. People are searching for green energy to stop the pollution of environment whereas people living in un-developed areas face some of the most difficult times in energy sector.

Massive population growth has led to over-destruction of natural resources which not only invites natural calamities but extinction of wildlife as well. Without some form of energy no human can survive and energy generation can be done from so many things. There is renewable energy form from solar, hydro, wind and thermal and they are very popular in developing countries but they might be too costly for some of the poorest regions in the world. Without efforts from organization or government they can’t access to such energy so how can we make sustainable household energy in rural community available?

Making energy accessible to people living in rural areas with such poverty can sometimes be difficult but through informational guides, techniques and documents these things can be done easily. Use of biogas and biofuel techniques have been developing successfully in developing parts of the world but accessing these energy is still difficult in under-developed world especially third world. Example of the work done in Nigeria by Practical Answers a web-based technical information resource center is given in its guide.

When asked in survey poverty was the main reason listed as having no access to other energy form in Nigeria other than firewood. So, the guides taught people to use egaga stoves which made efficient use of firewood available to them. Development of stoves spread quickly among people leading to having employment opportunity in stoves making. This not only managed the shortage of firewood and energy but gave people a chance with earning extra income source.

Majority of people who are still dependent on traditional biomass for domestic energy is because they are poor so, any kind of intervention will help them to uplift their lives by providing employment beneficiaries. Proper energy access will alleviate their poverty to certain extent and help them live better life.

Rural electrification can be simply defined as the process of bringing and providing electricity to the remote parts and areas. Electricity has become parts of people lives in many developed countries but still millions of people do not have access to it. Electricity is not only used for lighting purpose, it can also be used in agricultural fields where there is labor shortage. It will not only increase the efficiency but the production as well.

Unfortunately, people living in rural parts of developing and under-developed parts of the world have no basic knowledge about such energy generation. In impoverished and undeveloped areas, even small-scale power generation can aid a lot of help. When it comes to working hours in areas with no available electricity, it is only limited to daylight. People will have access to better electric-powered wells for clean water which can prevent water-borne diseases. Lengthening working hours of people will lead to better productivity and even simple lighting can do this.

Now, renewable energy source could be considered as one of the alternative for providing people with energy. Hydro, solar and wind energies are the widely popular but they are not the best option as they require lot of initial cost and manpower as well. They can only be used for electrification purpose and doesn’t solve the problem of depleting cooking fuels.

In such case, development of bio-gas has proved to be boon for many people. Biogas can simply be termed as fuel source which are obtained by decomposition of organic wastes in absence of oxygen of aerobically. Biogas has already been used in many rural areas with positive results. They are not only source of cooking fuel which eliminates deforestation and smoke-induced firewood but they provide lighting as well. 

Practical Answers has termed biogas as the medium of  low cost electricity in rural areas  because of its benefits. It is a web-based resource center which helps people through its technical information. It provides all the information that is essential for biogas installation and advantages of using it. Biogas is great source of fuel which will solve problem of both electrification and scarcity of forest resources.

Finding the real solutions to poverty actually depends on reducing or eliminating the factor that are causing it. Depending on country and their developmental state cause of poverty differentiates variedly. The reason for majority of poverty in India and the cause of minority poverty in America or...

Energy efficient homes are often not considered by most of the people during the time of building a new home or remodeling an old one. But building an energy efficient home means investing ones energy and money in more durable and comfortable home in long-run. If people are building new homes,...

As millions of people have only solid fuels as their daily energy utilization, everyone is known to the fact that cook-stoves are the only fire place where they cook. Cook-stoves are nothing like the modern stove and equipment that we are used to in our daily lives. Using clay and stones...

Indoor pollution is said to be one of the most indirect killers in many indigent countries and regions of the developing world and only few thousand people know the fact that over 4 million deaths occur every year from the illness attributed by indoor household pollution generated from solid fuels...

Almost all people living in rural remote regions of developing countries use solid fuels as their major energy source for everyday household purpose facing difficulty in breathing, stinging eye-burn, throat closing and risks of various respiratory lungs diseases. Developing renewable energy...

The approach in which risk and vulnerabilities of disasters are systematically approached, identified, assessed and reduced is known as Disaster risk reduction (DRR). Its main aim is to reduce socio-economic vulnerabilities of disaster and deals with environmental hazards that come along with the...

With more forms of energy being developed to fulfill the demand of people, millions of people are still living in energy crisis. People are searching for green energy to stop the pollution of environment whereas people living in un-developed areas face some of the most difficult times in energy...

Rural electrification can be simply defined as the process of bringing and providing electricity to the remote parts and areas. Electricity has become parts of people lives in many developed countries but still millions of people do not have access to it. Electricity is not only used for lighting...