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Possible problems:
Education in a poor country may be highly regulated. You may need to bribe government officials all the time just to be allowed to teach anyone there. (Corruption may be one of the reasons why the country is so poor.)
If the country is poor, your former students will get very low salaries, if they decide to stay in their country. Ten percent of their income may be just enough to cover the costs of education, not enough to make a profit.
In the worst case (most poor countries), you can expect many of your students getting killed in some civil war or dying from medical problems, and maybe even you will be accused of witchcraft and burned.
Are you planning to teach all subjects alone? In a very poor country, you might have a problem to find sufficiently smart teachers.
All fair points, to which there might be workarounds... but the title of the post is "Post Ridiculous Munchkin Ideas".
Seth Robert's idea of putting a noseclip on your nose while you it to lose weight is ridiculous to most people. It's not ridiculous because there are practical problems with putting noseclips on your nose.
It ridiculous because normal people just don't put noseclips on their noses when they eat. If there are practical problems with implementing your idea why should a munchkin do them?
I don't think that's supposed to literally mean to post ideas that are ridiculous, but rather to post ideas that are not the sort of thing one normally thinks about.