Charity, Aid, and Unintended Consequences
12 videos • 2,385 views • by PovertyCure A billion people around the world live in extreme poverty. For Christians, especially, addressing this problem is a nonnegotiable. Over the past several decades, extraordinary efforts have been made in the areas of charity and aid. Unfortunately, these efforts haven't always had the effects that were hoped for. Through our filming and research, we found story after story of charity that hurts. We came to wonder, are we truly helping people become self-sustaining, or have we created a poverty industry in which the poor stay poor and the rich get hipper? Sometimes our good intentions have unintended consequences. This is why it isn't enough to have a heart for the poor; we must use our minds to unite our desire to help others with our knowledge of the social, economic, political, and spiritual foundations of human flourishing. We need unsimplify poverty and reflect with earnest on how we go about addressing these problems. In this playlist, PovertyCure Voices chime in on the two major forms of international development assistance, private charity and government-to-government foreign aid. Hear what the indigienous leaders and recipients of such assistance have to say about it — the good, the bad, and the ugly. People in the developing world are raising their voices calling for change. Will we listen?