A single benefit of one thousand dollars (about 999 euros) for each poor family in Africa it would be enough to transform the lives of these people in almost every way. This is defended by the executive director of the North American non-profit organization GiveDirectly, Rory Stewart.
The principle defended by the former British Conservative deputy and the association he leads aims to give people money to buy what they need instead of promoting campaigns that provide resources that may not be useful to them and without part of that value being retained by intermediaries, indicates the newspaper El Telégrafo.
A) Yes, it also ended the helicopter effect of the richest countries reaching out to developing countries to show communities what they need to do to lift themselves out of poverty. But this idea will have a harder time moving from theory to practice than it might at first seem.
Rory Stewart, former Secretary of State for International Development in 2019, criticizes other models of charity and helping poorer communities, referring to them as condescending and condescending.
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Source: Observadora
