alt Hacker NewsHeifer International presents a good face on doing this by introducing livestock, providing education to the new owners, and imparting an in-kind donation requirement so as to perpetuate and spread the gains.
Heifer International presents a good face on doing this by introducing livestock, providing education to the new owners, and imparting an in-kind donation requirement so as to perpetuate and spread the gains.
Likewise charities that build clean water infrastructure, small scale solar, cell phone infrastructure, insulated cooking pots to reduce fuel use, and build infrastructure and training for basic medical care – these are all things that support increases in productivity by removing barriers and introducing efficiency into people's lives enabling them to do more, for their children to attend more school, for them to lose less time to illness and malnutrition.
Where just giving away food or money, especially on large scales distorts and ruins economies. Likewise introducing significant export markets when a local economy isn't ready.