Empowering the Poor

How do help a 60 year old woman with a crooked back waiting for a dirty bowl of beans? You empower her!
Here's an interesting approach for enterprise in a refugee camp in Congo.

http://m.startribune.com/?id=169684836

”How do we treat a 60-year-old woman with a crooked back waiting for a dirty bowl of beans? Put the solution in her hands. Give her an inexpensive, durable cellphone that accepts voucher-like credits for her to buy the basics she's now given. Food, education, stove, health care, maybe child care and job training.”