http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11869727-toxic-charity
I encourage everyone to take a close look at this book, and others like it.
The danger is that by giving people a hand out, you are in the end chaining them. It has changed how I give, and to whom.
Thanks. I wrote this down in a little notebook I keep of books that I want to read.
I have read of African terrorists actually encouraging the charity organization trucks to come to their areas so that they can steal from the trucks and sell the food and equipment. They have cut off the hands of people in some parts of Africa so that the charities will come to the area to help them. As soon as they show up with supplies they rob the trucks. We in the western world are really very naïve.