Illiteracy is the cause of poverty. We know a cup of coffee (Starbucks) = 20 notebooks, or a school bag, or two pairs of slippers for poor children in Vietnam.
Poverty truly has connection with illiteracy, right information is very key and having the skill for you to utilise the information at your disposal is one of the major way to help reduce poverty. So the poor and vulnerable people must be ready to help themselves.