During the tour, KWRU made contact with many groups and organizations from across the country that were interested in working to gain and ensure economic human rights for all people.
[citation needed] Most organization members of the PPEHRC are community-based and headed by people living in poverty themselves.
[1] The University of the Poor is a community-based web-centric institution, dedicated in training and educating leaders in the larger movement to end poverty.
It was created in 1999 as the national education division of the PPEHRC, and was intended to focus on the unity and development of the leaders of the campaign.
[1] The University of the Poor was brought as a result of the gathering of economic human rights groups that occurred March to the Americas.