Toxic charities: How churches and charities hurt those they help (and how to reverse it)
For years and years charities have pumped untold billions of dollars into various people in need and no long term good seems to come from it. We feed them and their hungry again so we feed them.
We never seem to have a plan on how to teach them to feed themselves and the cycle of constantly having to feed them continues.
The old saw of "Give a man a fish you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you will never have to feed him again" holds true to a point.
Of course we can deport a man and never have to feed him again or if you do teach an American man to fish he will spend the rest of his life next to a trout stream with a six-pack but I digress.
The object is to get the people to be able to take care of themselves.
Sam Kinison has a famous rant about it that makes sense.
Anyway, expect a possible book report.
In my opinion, the brutal reality of the 'starving kids in Africa,' is that we keep feeding them. If the West turned off the tap, the population would quickly reset to a level that the area's resources can support.
ReplyDeleteYou may very well be spot on. Several posts back I pointed out a WV couple I met that were unwilling to move to better themselves. That's on them.
DeleteAs for Africa, Africa always wins. I see no hope for it.
I'll write a book report on it if the book is any good.