By Kevin Kaufman
I’d like to show you a different perspective.What if I said that there’s an incredibly effective free-market approach to charity?
Yup, you heard that right:
How? Let’s break it down first:
For instance, a local solar panel company in Haiti faced financial troubles due to additional foreign aid pouring into the country several years after the devastating earthquake in 2010.
In contrast, the Christian nonprofit for which I work for, Churches and Villages Together (CVT), focuses on delivering solutions to poverty through the efforts of enabled entrepreneurs in the East African countries of Uganda and Rwanda.
In sharp contrast, teaching the poor how to produce their own food via practical farming/building (business) skills can help lift them out of poverty and eventually to self-sustaining employment that can lead to long-term prosperity.
Charity programs that exhibit socialist tendencies actually stunt real growth and prosperity.
Therefore charity solutions based on reason, not simplified humanitarian aid, ought to be the ultimate goal in the quest for elevating people out of poverty.
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