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Introduction
Outline for Prosperity and Poverty
Introduction:
We are Danny and Jacqueline Dulin and we are global workers sent out by Colonial to the city of Mitrovica Kosovo.
Most of you probably already know this and…
In fact, THAT is probably why you’re here with us instead of sitting at the feet of some far speaker.
But maybe you’re here because the title of this talk intrigued you.
And if it did, I wonder if it caused a TIDLE WAVE of questions to rush over you like it did me.
But first let me ask you a few questions[DD1] :
Raise you’re hand if you are living in prosperity?
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Raise you’re hand if you are living in poverty?
HOW DO YOU KNOW?
Define Prosperity and Poverty
The dictionary definitions are:
Prosperity is the condition of being successful or thriving especially economic well-being.
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
These definitions are a bit subjective to me and cause me to ask a bunch more questions… LIKE:
Is Prosperity the end goal for those in Poverty?
Who decides what Prosperity is?
Who decides what Poverty is?
Those in Poverty or those in Prosperity?
World Bank says Poverty is anyone living at or below $1.90 per day.[3]
If Prosperity IS the indication that you are no longer in Poverty, does that mean living on $1.95 per day is Prosperity?
And what about the question of the “Developing World?”
WHAT is the Developing World?
WHO is the Developing World?
Is Developing a method?
OR Is Developing a status?
Who decides that the “Developing World” no longer needs to be developed?
[DD2]
How do WE decide to give?
(3:30 Minutes to here)
Statistical data for Prosperity and Poverty in the world.
Few people might describe Prosperity as a problem, but everyone would describe Poverty as an extreme problem in our world.
World Bank estimates that over 700 million people live at or below the poverty line.
Interestingly…they describe this as a great improvement compared to numbers 20 some years ago BUT still they caution:
… the number of people living in extreme poverty globally remains unacceptably high!
The work to end extreme poverty is far from over, and many challenges remain.[4]
In fact, they say:
…for those who have been able to move out of poverty…progress is often temporary: economic shocks, food insecurity and other factors threaten to rob them of their hard-won gains and force them back into poverty.
(This section is 1:05 Minutes total 4:35)
Introduce the industry of Aid[DD3]
Because God has created us with a conscience…we have a natural inclination to help.
Scripture shows us God cares very deeply for the poor and commands us to protect and care for them.
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God commands us to freely open our hand to the poor and needy.
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He warns us not to be silent but to open our mouths in righteousness to defend the afflicted and the needy.
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James cautions us not to neglect our brothers and sisters but to meet their needs.
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And who wants to be a Goat?
Lest we forget our Lord’s judgement on the goats who were neglectful: ()
And so, from a heart of compassion and commandments of God…we act.
We give.
We give in a multitude of ways:
1.
We conduct clothing drives…coat drives…shoe drives…food drives you name it.
We drive it.
2. We drive it to send to the poor and to the “helpless.”
3. We send money to Aid organizations and charities.
We do all this never considering our acts of good will could ever have a negative impact.
Why would you?
We see the pictures…we read the data…and we hear the commands of God.
We just want to help, right?
We’re CALLED to help.
But those at PovertyCure.org
say:
…despite many good intentions, large-scale foreign aid plans have been largely ineffective.
Trillions of dollars in aid over the last sixty years have been unable to lift the poorest countries out of extreme poverty.[5]
Here are some examples:
(This section was 2:30 total 7:05)
1. Kenneth Michel, C.O.O. of dloHaiti says:
In the 80’s, Haiti was self-sufficient on rice.
Rice was eaten twice at the most 3 times a week.
Rice was a luxury item.
After the earthquake, the West provided subsidized rice to Haiti.
This caused the price of rice to drop dramatically.
Now instead of once or twice a week, rice was on the table 3 times a day, 7 days a week.
This may have changed the Haitian diet, but what was the real impact of subsidized rice?
***WAIT FOR AN ANSWER***
It totally destroyed the rice industry in Haiti.
It put all of the rice farmers out of business because they could not compete with free rice.
We think there was a food shortage after the earthquake; in reality, tons of Haitian food went to rot.
The earthquake did not impact the food supply, it impacted the exchange of food for money.
Mark R. Weber, Co-producer of Poverty-Inc says this:[DD4]
…by the time cash began flowing again, the market had been flooded with food aid to the point that selling food for a profit was a futile endeavor.
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Total 8:44)
This is not a criticism or an attack on humanitarian aid.
If disaster hits, we absolutely should rally to help those in need.
But, when humanitarian aid becomes a way of life, it often creates a problem.
Weber says, in principle there are appropriate food relief measures that can be taken in a severe crisis when a country's ability to produce enough food to sustain life is affected.
STILL, efforts must be made to work through local organizations and source food from the region as much as possible rather than shipping food from Europe or the United States.
2. President of Rwanda [DD5] Paul Kagame, says, Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less indepenence.
There is a wrong notion for people that give money and aid feel good that they’re helping, but the best way to help people is to help people to be able to stand on their own.”
3. Eva Muraya, entreprenuer and brand strategist from Kenya says, When she was growing up, they didn’t have 2nd hand clothing from the west in Kenya.
…Today, the influx of second hand clothing coming in from the West, has negatively impacted their textile industry in Kenya.
Massive layoffs in the 80’s and 90’s, whole factories shut down.
The cotton farms are all gone now because of the negative impact of apparel imports at a second-hand level.
4. Peter Greer, CEO of Hope International tells another story.
Two years prior to the Rwanda genocide a young entreprenuer made a large investment to start an egg business in his community outside the city of Kigali.
His business was just starting to grow, but a well-meaning church from Atlanta began distributing eggs in his community to help them recover from the genocide.
The distribution of free eggs put Jono out of business.
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