Charity is in. Bill Clinton has written a bestseller about it and rock stars are organizing concerts. But Moniek Zegers, co-founder of the recently launched Dutch Comité tegen Goede Doelen Gekte (”Committee against good-cause lunacy”) says we shouldn’t be giving more but taking less. Read more in Ode Magazine…
Global Info (in Dutch) published a short article about it, and Fm Magazine hosted an interview with Ego de Bruijn.
Intelligent Life (from the Economist) published an interesting article in the same realm (’A share of this article goes to charity’) , which questions the effectives of ‘helping Africa by buying t-shirts or the right sort of coffee’.
Are we really acting that bad, or is the world just filled up with stereotypes of the wrong kind…?
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Actuality,
Developing Countries,
Globalization & Global Culture
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