From Scalize's blog:

What you have to understand about poverty in the developing world is that it is not a function of lack of desire, willpower, motivation, or organization. It is a lack of opportunity and resources. Fundamentally. In six weeks, we rallied twenty-four independent communities around partnerships of teenagers to solicit small projects, share the financing burden, and finish them. Our success rate was 90%.

I am proud of what our volunteers accomplished and proud to have been able to support them from a far, as well as directly in supervisory role. If you are inclined to donate charitably to international aid organizations, make sure they are building bridges to opportunities. Empowerment is key to development.