Message-ID: <009c01bf43c6$35829880$3f270e3f@ft3gr> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 03:55:15 -0700 From: ROBERT JOHNSON <mailto:PYPYYODA@EMAIL.MSN.COM> Subject: Re: The Life in Africa Foundation -- seeking microfinance stories To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
when people start quoting the juden...i pull out my revolver
-----Original Message----- From: Elaine Friedland <mailto:elaine3@MINDSPRING.COM> To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:58 PM Subject: Re: The Life in Africa Foundation -- seeking microfinance stories
>I would like to add to the comment below, a Jewish philosopher in the 13th
>century stated that the highest
>form of charity is that which ensures that the poor person gains an
>independent means of earning a living.
>The same should be applied to development projects in Africa.
>>However, they forget that Africans are not pets that you save from the
>>shelter. If you are so moved to "save" them, because they are people you
>>must give them the respect to understand that the best practice is not
>>perpetual paternalism. If I help a man that is starving, I want to see
him >>function on his own. I don't have any desire for the sense of power that
I >>will save him each day of his life by having him come to me each day for
>>food, so each day I can feel like a saviour.
> ELAINE A. FRIEDLAND, Ph.D.
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