Bitcoin is money.
You are asking:
"What can money do to help the plight of these people?"
Money can't do anything by itself. It requires people to use the money in a beneficial way.
This. There are too many people who think that bitcoin can solve all of the world's problems when this is simply not the case. Bitcoin has a very narrow level of usefulness and solving the issue of people being poor is not one thing that bitcoin is good for