No community is totally and absolutely poor. So long as there are living human beings in the community, then it has resources, enough to allow its residents to survive. If a community is only an archaeological site, with no living residents, then it is no longer a community. . No living community is absolutely poor. Yes they do, but we, who are interested in sustainable development, must be very cautious about the nature of that help.
Every community has resources.
It is important to remember that every community has resources. If we are to strengthen those communities, we need to release those hidden resources. If we are to assist, we need to assist in ways that strengthen, not weaken the community. . If we parachute resources into the community without also using internal resources, we contribute to community atrophy. It would contribute to increased dependence upon the outside, and therefore to continued long term endemic poverty. .