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Re: phuket island...
Dec 29, 2004, 19:33
I know :o)

But for all the charity, problems, both natural and man made are still with us. So who's right? The person that gives according to the present need? or the person that suggests that giving to charity perpetuates a system that encourages poverty?

Big disasters cause money to flow from the developed nations to the Ethiopias and Somalias of the world. Yet as far as I can see, nothing really changes. As someone pointed out in a previous thread, aid is often tied to trade deals that in the long term cause far more wealth to flow in the opposite direction.

Domestically, the existence of charities like Shelter, and before them, Barnardos have failed to make much of a dent in the problem of homelessness. Perhaps if such charities didn't exist, society as a whole would find a sensible and sustainable method of stopping these problems from occurring.
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