As of 2016, there was a global population of an estimated 7.4 billion people. Over two billion of the global population is nutrient deficient, with about 795 million living on the brink of starvation (U.N. data). These poor populations generally have inadequate potable water, crop production means, safe affordable housing, needed sanitation, electricity/ energy, education, and/or employment/ income, w/ some 730 million cooking on open fires contributing to air pollution.
Nearly 70 million of the above populations are displaced persons or refugees, w/ 4.5 million refugees from Syria alone. These large refugee populations are now causing some instability in host nations where they become a financial burden and often cause increased rates of crime. There has been a particular problem with the Wahhabi Muslim refugees who follow the 109 verses of the Quran giving Muslims instructions to kill or enslave non-Muslims. The Wahhabi have often elected to create "shadow" Muslim communities in host nations. Such shadow Islamic communities refuse to integrate into host nations and may act to support subtle or covert forms of jihad (war on non-Muslims).
Overall, poor populations are often socially, economically, and politically isolated from the nations in which they reside. The large and global scale of poverty makes it impossible for resource limited governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to deal with associated and massive problems caused by populations lacking the means to help themselves. The United Nations (UN) seeks to help reduce poverty using coordinated Millennium Development Goals and projects funded by member states. This UN effort is making very slow progress.
Subject manual has been written as a guide and training outline for government agency and NGO, as well as U.S. Peace Corps personnel who seek to instruct and coach poor, indigenous, and/ or displaced persons in the innovative skills of entrepreneurship. The goal is to assist poor and displaced populations in ways to better help themselves by starting microenterprises (businesses) to provide their own employment and generate income … while providing unique products and/or services to benefit other poor and displaced persons.
