I hate to say it but “charities” get off on ENSLAVING countries like Africa to their organization just as government does. When you have a government or a “charity” ALWAYS DOING FOR YOU and GIVING YOU things, what is the INCENTIVE to DO FOR YOURSELF?
It’s not there. Helping them get started is fine but whether it be a “Christian charity” or the government, they more often than not, don’t STOP enslaving them. Each, the government and the “charity” like the power and control they have over those enslaved to them. It is a situation of a charity going HUMANISTIC even though they claim to be “Christian”. There must be a line where each backs off and lets the people DO for themselves.
There is NO REASON in the world why Africa can’t be a prosperous nation. It’s these “social do gooders” that prevent that from happening. They have the ELITE LIBERAL MINDSET that assumes these people can NEVER function without them. Of course, people respond to that too!
Too true. My uncle was a pilot for World Vision, flying aid into the central part of Mozambique, at the time the poorest nation on earth. It would take them 4 hours to load up a Dakota, and about 30 minutes to unload once they touched down on the remote airstrip.
The navigator then had to use a crowbar to beat off the local villagers so that they could close the door and take off. After a few months of bi-weekly flights, they noticed that the whole village had moved in next to the airstrip, and no longer tended to their own crops. When they asked the chief what would happen if they stopped bringing food, he answered that they would all die.
Such a sad story, yet so common across Africa.
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools.” - Herbert Spencer.
Ironically, the very people who tend to believe that the entire world was created by "evolution," through "survival of the fittest," are those most dedicated to interrupting whatever manifest processes there are for those who can prosper socially (economically, etc.) to do so and for those who cannot to suffer "the effects of their folly."
“Africa” is not one nation, but many (54 at last count).... otherwise your points are well taken.