You can give all your money away, but it won’t solve poverty | Masuma Rahim

A Kenyan teacher who donates 80% of his income is amazingly generous. But such acts alone cannot tackle inequality

Globally, income inequality is rising. Poverty remains a very real and very visible, ill in most of the world. It is humbling, then, to hear of Peter Tabichi, a science teacher from rural Kenya, who has won the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher prize for donating 80% of his annual salary to charitable causes, primarily in supporting the poorest pupils at his school to buy necessities such as uniforms and books.

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