I am one lone voice on my feeling about this. Mother Teresa was incredible, what she did, living her whole life as part of the community she served. She didn't get sick and go home.
Missionaries caring for the people instead of teaching the people to care for themselves are enabling irresponsible behavior of those who are afflicted. And look what happened when they got sick. The unspoken message sent to Africans was that to get well one had to go to the US.
And now the suffering Africans are left with no one to care for them, no developed cures, and an out of control situation that perhaps the US military can bring into control, at great risk to our military.
Is it racist to assume that Africans are incapable of caring for themselves? Personally, I suspect so.
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Missionaries DO teach people to care for themselves. It's a LARGE part of what they do in treating them, the prevention of much of this stuff in the first place.
What medical missionaries do other than that is treat people for stuff that can't be dealt with by prevention.
Help with stuff like dental work (tooth extractions) eyesight, antibiotics for infections, setting broken bones, childbirth, etc.
You’re not alone in thinking what you do.
Those who are transporting this illness to the United States are irresponsible, uncaring.