Ways to End Poverty in the Philippines

The Philippines is one of the countries in Asia with the highest percentage of poor people. It is obvious that those countries, the Philippines included, are deeply saddled in a morass of bureaucratic corruption. Thus, there is sense in the strategy to remove corruption as a problem in government before launching programs to end poverty. But there is a drawback to this strategy. It slows down the momentum to serve the poor. Corruption meansures are on-going and it does take time to haul all corrupt officials and their accessories to court and mete out the necessary justice. Thus, it is incumbent for the government to get bolder and pour millions of pesos to poverty-ending tasks that aim to provide an opportunity for every Filipino to experience the basic amenities of life and get out of poverty, pure and simple. And what are ways to accomplish these?
The government should continue with its conditional dole-outs of money for its identified poor families, for this is a noble effort to reach out to the poor in society and let the public money benefit those people in the poverty line.
Also, the government can tap international financial institutions, including the United Nations, whose main work is to alleviate world poverty by pouring in millions of dollars to developing countries to improve the lot of their citizens. The Philippines is still a Third World country. It should get easy approval from international programs designed to help end the poverty curse. Poverty-ending projects like cooperatives, livestock and food production, handicraft production, food banks, rural road projects, and other small-scale projects can be started in villages and small towns all over the country with the help of these international agencies. The Philippines must accept that it is still a developing country after all these years due to corruption that is endemic in all levels of its bureaucracy and which has created a deep division between the haves and the have-nots in Philippine society. It should therefore continue to look to international agencies for help in terms of grants and loans to help the poor and bring them at par with the rich in enjoying even just the basic amenities of life.
Vital to these projects to end poverty should be the continued efforts of government agencies concerned to generate jobs for its jobless poor, provide a place and build simple shelters for its homeless poor, create more educational scholarships in high school and college levels for the children of poor parents who, without those free-schooling opportunities, will render them tied to a future of endless poverty.
The government should also ask its people to practice volunteerism and help its poor countrymen. It must assert that the success of government programs for the poor still rests with the full coperation of its citizens. It must encourage private institutions and agencies to re-focus their programs to help the poor and the homeless in society. It must reward individuals and groups who take extra effort to assist the needy citizens through tax incentives and financial assistance.
And a lot more projects for the poor are just waiting for the government to lay its helping hand on. And since a sincere and straightforward President is currently at the helm of power in the country, there should be a rosy future at last for its poor citizens.