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Old 05-14-2012, 02:50 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by xJerk View Post
Throwing money at countries doesn't solve anything. You need to help the countries to help themselves.
This will sound hard, but it's true.

Every 1 person saved this year = 2-3 people in 20 years time. Unless war, disease and starvation kills them.

The land was never able to support the number or people it now does, sending food, teaching them to feed themselves, giving them a fishing rod instead of a fish. Are stupid white middle class solutions. To a problem they can't even comprehend.

Telling a tribesman it's wrong to kill an elephant for his tusks. When the tribesman family are staving to death. Is never going to get results.

And as J. Falcon says most of the money poured in goes to tribal leaders.

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