Thanks, That's some good suggestions, and which I think a lot of poverty activists know of, but do you know of any NGOs / programs that are currently doing this, and that are hopefully succesful too ?
I dont know why I was downvoted. Here is a talk of a brave man who turned a poor, uneducated town, and helped them make something of themselves:
http://www.ted.com/talks/bunker_roy.html
wasn't me, I don't even have enough karma to downvote : )