Comments on: Blog Action Day 2008 – Poverty http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-poverty/ Business, Marketing, Social Media Sun, 20 Nov 2011 08:25:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roland Hesz http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-9656 Roland Hesz Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:20:01 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=196#comment-9656 I joined kiva for exactly the same reason. But, I don't agree with the "give them food" solution. Give them a chance to grow their own food, to sell their own products. That means that no food donations should be done, honestly. No farmer can sell his grain if you have free UN grain on the market. You can't compete with free. And if the farmer can't sell the grain, he will stop being a farmer and goes to the city. To be a poor, starving factory worker. Or an unemployed homeless. http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html Help these countries build their own market, like in they started in Ethiopia. A lot of times starvation is not because there is not enough food, or land, but because there is not enough information, no market, no order to it. (http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elene_gabre_madhin_on_ethiopian_economics.html) I don't believe in the give a fish, I believe in the teach them and let them fish. I joined kiva for exactly the same reason.
But, I don’t agree with the “give them food” solution. Give them a chance to grow their own food, to sell their own products.
That means that no food donations should be done, honestly.

No farmer can sell his grain if you have free UN grain on the market.
You can’t compete with free. And if the farmer can’t sell the grain, he will stop being a farmer and goes to the city. To be a poor, starving factory worker. Or an unemployed homeless.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,363663,00.html

Help these countries build their own market, like in they started in Ethiopia.
A lot of times starvation is not because there is not enough food, or land, but because there is not enough information, no market, no order to it.

(http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/elene_gabre_madhin_on_ethiopian_economics.html)

I don’t believe in the give a fish, I believe in the teach them and let them fish.

]]> By: Ellen Weber http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-9655 Ellen Weber Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:00:29 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=196#comment-9655 Oh I love the notion of writing it as HISTORY rather than a continuing problem, Karen! Let's take yet another step today to make that closer to a reality! Thanks for the inspiration! Oh I love the notion of writing it as HISTORY rather than a continuing problem, Karen! Let’s take yet another step today to make that closer to a reality! Thanks for the inspiration!

]]> By: Karen Swim http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/2008/10/15/blog-action-day-2008-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-9654 Karen Swim Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:06:14 +0000 http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog/?p=196#comment-9654 Hi David, you are so right! Sometimes we may not see it, but we really do have so much. We live like royalty compared to so many others in the world. It really helps to balance the perspective. Hi David, you are so right! Sometimes we may not see it, but we really do have so much. We live like royalty compared to so many others in the world. It really helps to balance the perspective.

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