I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.
Binyavanga WainainaTags: irony development cows aid kenya ngo
I learned a long time ago with you that folks who were trying to be kind would rather do it with a macaroni-and-cheese bake than any personal involvement. You hand off a serving dish and you've done your job - no need to get personally involved, and your conscience is clean. Food is the currency of aid.
Jodi PicoultTags: food aid displays-of-kindness
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy CarterTags: difference faith help aid
A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.
Vera NazarianTags: self-esteem self self-help togetherness treasure value worth helping-others support not-alone help broken-glass glass recovery breaking together helping assistance pieces esteem broken shattered aid trash commuity shattered-glass vase
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
William EasterlyTags: economics poverty development aid
Without an informed electorate, politicians will continue to use the bottom billion merely for photo opportunities, rather than promoting real transformation.
Paul CollierTags: poverty development poverty-alleviation aid
Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.
Paul CollierTags: development social-change aid
Nobody knows how many North Koreans have died or are dying in the famine—some estimates by foreign-aid groups run as high as three million in the period from 1995 to 1998 alone—but the rotund, jowly face of Kim Il Sung still beams down contentedly from every wall, and the 58-year-old son looks as chubby as ever, even as his slenderized subjects are mustered to applaud him.
Christopher HitchensTags: death propaganda 1995 1998 famine 1997 aid north-korea kim-jong-il kim-il-sung 1996 north-korean-famine
In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.
Criss JamiTags: strength world weakness envy excellence mockery helping superhuman aid better-world
... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.
William EasterlyTags: development aid
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