When I was in just out of college, there was a Guy who would stop by my house on recycling day and pick out all our cans and bottles that had a deposit. I became kind of friends with the Guy, I’d ask him how’s business, he’d ask me how I liked my cube and we’d have good laugh.
One day we got to talking about what I do and I told him”I made things to help people do their job better with less work”. He tells me he could use one of those things….
So, I had an old Palm3, I wrote an app where he could enter his Cans collected at each address and after 2 month he would know which Houses drink the most soda and what where his best blocks. (No route generator ) I presented it to him the next week on recycling day.
Increased his productivity by 30%!
So there you go, Programming to help people in poverty!