Poverty can be cured by tossing away the donor-recipient model of the past and making a shift toward partnership models that value the creative potential of our brothers and sisters in the developing world through PovertyCure.
PovertyCure understands the issue of poverty. Over one billion people live on under $1.25 per day. Each year millions of men, women, and children die of AIDS and preventable diseases. Many more die of contaminated water and starvation. And yet over the past 60 years trillions of dollars have been dumped in the name of “curing poverty” without result. How is this so?
Although trillions of dollars are being poured into impoverished countries the situation has not progressed much if at all. (1)“Trillions of dollars in aid over the last sixty years has been ineffective and has been unable to lift the poorest countries out of extreme poverty. Much of it ends up in rich African’s UK or European bank accounts and does not even help their local economy” (Malawi in Central Africa Is One of the Poorest Countries in the World). Take the example of a child who told his father every time before he played outside his shoe was untied. The father in return tied the shoe each time. What got accomplished? The child’s shoe is tied. The child’s request is fulfilled. The child then becomes dependent upon his father to get his shoe tied. In the end, the child never learned how to tie his own shoe. In the same way, if money is constantly being dumped on impoverished countries the problem will never be fixed.
How can poverty be cured? Take again the example of the child and his untied shoes. The child wants his shoe to be tied. The father could tie the shoes each time. Or, if he truly understood the child’s dilemma, he could teach ...
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... would help many of the impoverished to feel the love of Christ. Something as little as giving a greeting in their tongue or asking how they are doing. Each and every human being is created in the image of God without exception. There might be a slight change in appearance, dress, or tongue, but there is still a point of unification. It is up to Christians to show the common ground.
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