On the global front, you have to be careful about how you deliver foreign aid-- the relentless desire to help can sometimes cause charitable organizations to neglect simple human dignity, resulting in reactions like this one, by Binyavanga Wainaina:
http://www.granta.com/Magazine/92/How-to-Write-About-Africa?view=articleAllPages
His website, link below, features additional perspectives on that theme:
http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/2008/ethics_of_aid-kenya/
Finally, an earlier article from Wainaina, expressing the same tone:
http://www.mg.co.za/article/2007-12-03-oxfamming-the-whole-black-world
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