Le 2013-08-02 03:19, Thomas de Groot a écrit :
> On 2-8-2013 8:14, Le_Forgeron wrote:
>>
>> Every works is worth a rewards.
>> The charity should be inspired rather by the saying (guess the book ?):
>> "if you give a man a fish, he will eat one day. If you learn a man to
>> fish, he will eat every days".
>> Charity for day one is ok, but long-term repetition of the same action
>> become counter-productive if the charity is true to itself.
>
> Exactly so indeed. As you may have guessed, I am quite critical about
> charities as most blindly just go on distributing fish without providing
> the fishing poles. I may be exaggerating some, but not much. It has been
> the policies of ngo's in the past, and it is the policy of IMF.
>
> Thomas
>

And even then, some of those fish are left on the port loading dock to 
rot because those charities haven't thought about the logistics* of 
ditributing the fish to the people in need.

*which usually include spreading vitamin Z here and there.
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