Opportunities for unskilled people?

Have been doing a lot of interviews of late, and one thing that keeps coming back to mind, considering the ratio of number of rejects to the number of hires!

Most of the time, the candidates are not skilled enough. It may be due to their previous specialization in a particular aspect/technology, but most lack in general skills.

I talked to this one guy who gave excellent answers to most technical questions, but could hardly manage to speak. I had to bring out the answers from him.

He had the ability to understand things, to break it up into parts, what it meant, where it could be used, but he just could not put it out in words coherently.

I told him that he had to improve on his soft skills and be able to converse freely to be able to be given due credit to him.

On another note, I think of the best colleges - they turn out some of the brightest people; or do they? More often than not, the students already have the innate abilities and are actually pretty bright. The college brings together a lot of such people, bright in their own way and set an informal learning ground for them to just start building upon one another. That's the primary reason, if you ask me, and the credit is due there.

So, coming back, why questions is this: Who really is responsible for improving or providing help to people who have only a strong urge and willingness or the strong urge and also a latent capability to improve, but haven't reached their true potential because of the lack of resources or awareness or encouragement at the right times in their past?

Somehow, at least at a minute level, I want to be a part of this complicated answer.
You could help one or two persons, but the numbers needing help are huge.

I assume this to be a macro level issue, and one that continents like africa really are trying to address (or at least what the international community wants us to believe).

With the new delivery platforms and their accompanying social changes brought about by the advancements in technology, I hope there will be a feasible solution to this in the near future.

Anyone interested? I am trying to build a community of like minded people who want to to help lesser privileged people using automated systems, rather than F2F one time interactions.

And, this is pretty much a relative term, all of us are lesser privileged to information, to the exposure than what we could have, to relevant information out there, that could help us do our job better, whatever it may be, to some extent.

I know it would be a slow, painful, long journey, but that's why it has to be a group effort, rather than just one.