I have no idea if this would work, but let's imagine you get some wealthy-enough family from a developed country to buy into this and donate 1000 dollars. - You find a poor community. (The poorest. The kind that even microcredit can't really help.) - Register everyone who's interested and charge an extremely low in fee (like a nickel). Just to get some initial commitment. - Find leaders or have community select a panel. - Have leaders select a timeline and a few competitions that would reward model citizens of that community (like: most neighborly, hardest worker, most athletic, most improved house or whatever the community values that is acceptable to the organizers and donors.) - Also let the donors pick 1 or 2 categories based on a range of acceptable ones from the organizers. - Also have at least one "people's choice" award. - Run the competition for a day, week or month or whatever's appropriate. - Have judges or whatever was decided choose w...
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