Non governmental organizations and poverty

Poverty is a common problem regardless of development level of countries and become a global issue. Being its existence goes a long back, poverty has become international than being national.Poverty rises when individuals could not catch minimum human level live standards and become a problem. This problem causes with limited incomes not to have enough income and become socialize. Poverty causes inequalities among individuals and creates unrest and chaos in society.As a requirement of be a social state, governments utilize all their local and central resources to prevent poverty. Although all the interventions, governments have not reached the desired targets, Non profit organizations, being an important power could be important social players. These voluntary organizations, away from government intervention could be an alternative to the state and complementary to the state at other times.In Turkey, in this study, non profit organizations are taught a complimentary to the government, rather than an alternative, this study argued that non profit organizations could reach where government is lacking in preventing poverty as a complementary position.Being a quantitative survey study, the findings of this study support the hypothesis that non profit organizations could be a complementary rather than an alternative to solve poverty.