I agree wholeheartedly.
Few things more pointlessly stupid than sending good white kids into the worst ghettos of the world to pick up trash or dig a well.
Better to send them some garbage bags and shovels. Let these people pick up their own trash and dig their own holes. Or let them live amongst their own squalor and thirst. No trouble to me.
It may have been 15 / 20 years or more when my son was down there distributing mre and candy per army mission. Bosnia and Haiti —what an experience.