The phrase "alleviate misery" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing actions or measures taken to reduce suffering or unhappiness.
Example: "The charity aims to alleviate misery in impoverished communities by providing essential resources and support."
Alternatives: "ease suffering" or "relieve distress."
It requires a well co-ordinated, firm, top-down response, and the spending of tax revenue to alleviate misery, on the strict basis of need rather than worthiness.
"It's filling the space in between this historical space around philanthropy — charitable giving to fight poverty and alleviate misery — and the traditional investing space that is return-driven," said Julia Sze, director of investments at Wells Fargo Family Wealth, who ran an impact investing conference in San Francisco on Thursday.
Charity directories took as many as 100 pages to list and describe the numerous voluntary agencies that sought to alleviate misery, and combat every imaginable emergency..
An Activist with a capital A, she talks about the 120 non-profit organizations in San Miguel formed to alleviate misery -- trading the tar-paper shacks for $1,200 prefab houses and teaching local children to read, write, and even meet with authors who sign and give books to them.
Covert cross-border trade also helped alleviate some misery.
And how lucky for her she isn't dependent on the caring, sharing Brighton & Hove council to help her alleviate the misery of mental illness.
But Professor Galbraith said he saw a way to alleviate the misery of one large group of Americans: the jobless elderly.
Even as he refuses to recognise it, Mr Dubois demonstrates a central irony of Haitian history: the country's birth in a heroic slave revolt has made its citizens uneasy with the economic system most likely to alleviate their misery.
This could alleviate the misery of those suffering from mental illness and allow paralyzed people to control computers, video games, appliances, wheelchairs and mechanical arms and legs with sheer thought.
The bank's goal is to help alleviate the misery afflicting many American Indians by harnessing hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in bold new tribal ventures, like buffalo slaughterhouses in the Great Plains and lumber mills in the Northwest.
Nearly five million Americans out of work for more than six months are left to wonder what kind of help might be coming, as the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund and a bipartisan swath of policy experts implore Washington to act — both to alleviate human misery and to ensure the strength of the economy.
