Wednesday, November 4, 2009
I'm sorry this is how I feel.
I listened to a speech the other day, where the girl was trying to inform the audience about children living in poverty in other countries. She was trying to tell us what we could do to help these children; she informed us that we could donate money to other countries to help them, or we could sponsor a child like her. She was sponsoring a child who stayed at home with her mother and eight other brother and sisters their father was sometimes employed. I strongly disagreed with what she was saying, I agree that those children need help they shouldn’t have to live in those conditions. But why send money to a place where it might not go to what its suppose to go to, if the conditions are so bad and you can’t afford to feed, cloth, shelter and medicate your child why do you keep producing???? If we are going to help them maybe we should bring them over to our country where we can provide for them. I don’t want people to think that I am heartless, but there are people in our country who can’t have children, but can provide for them; and then you have people in other countries who know that can’t provide, but they figure they will get someone else to help them care for their children. It seriously breaks my heart that those kids have to suffer, because the women can’t keep their legs closed, maybe to help we should send condoms over.?????
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Well, I'm not sure promoting sex, or protected sex even is the best course of action, though I do think it wouldn't hurt. I believe the best plan we could conjure would be to send teachers and humanitarians to help civilize the area. Establish some sort of order, with laws and ethics and values. Throwing all these free things such as food and clothes might help in the short, but we need to think long term. How can we really change these places, and with what resources. Send counselors over to teach abstinence. Tell people they are only making things worse. Don't send bottled water, but rather dig a well. Packaged food might not be bad, but how far will that go? It will only last one meal, so make a farm! And in another point, certainly don't bring them here. With unemployment at it's peak, and welfare and shelters full beyond their means, what would all these people do when they got here? They need to adapt. Humans adapt better to their environment more than any other creature, so they must. Look at what they have, and what they can do with it. The helpless stay helpless. Make them helpful!
ReplyDeleteWe should not have a problem with sending money to starving children in foreign countries. If you do not trust any individual person’s organization, then find another one that you do trust; there are lots of organizations who are sending money to feed starving children. Once you have found an organization, look into what they are spending their money on; most of the places have a website that tells you what they are spending their money on.
ReplyDeleteFor people who have always lived in poverty and hunger I will not be able to feed my children may not seem like a good enough reason for them not to have children. If someone has been living their entire life barely having enough food to keep from starving they may not think I should not have a child because I will not have enough food to feed it since they have been living their whole life that way so not having enough food would not be unusual. People who live their entire life up to the age when they start wanting to have children in poverty will probably never be anything but poor so for them waiting until you will have enough money to care for a child is not an option.
This is not necessarily my opinion it is just an argument
Yikes....strong message. But thank you for being forward and honest in your opinion. I'm inclined to agree with the chariotx. If you do have a grievance with a certain charity organization, I don't think that it would be necessarily effective to merely say "charities don't work" (I am not implying that is what you meant, either).
ReplyDeleteI personally have found one good organization which send food and cloths to the Dominican Republic, and another which builds Christian chapels for people to go to church in (we mustn't neglect the spiritual needs along with the physical ones). But in answer to your problem, there are good ways of providing for children that do not involve sending over condoms =), and I bet it really makes a difference to the people living in those countries.
(Note to Kerry M. : The comment about the sending people over to teach is a good idea. The comment on teaching them to make wells is problematic. There is a lot of poisonous water down in the Dominican Republic (for example), which is very harmful to consume. One thing that a rescue mission did was send water filters down to make use of the water they already had and clean it out. It's not that they don't have water, it's that they don't have CLEAN water. But it's a good idea.=)