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Charity Helps, But It’s Not the Answer

Charity Helps, But It’s Not the Answer
Displaced people raise their hands as they wait for food distribution, near Mpoko Bangui's airport where 100.000 people have found shelter on Jan. 8, 2014. Strife-torn Central African Republic is heading for a humanitarian disaster, a Unicef official warned, calling for urgent action to prevent deadly diseases from spreading in overcrowded refugee camps. Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images
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I’ve been involved in benevolent projects for many years. Most of these efforts have been buying and distributing food and clothes for the very poor. In recent years, I have been involved in providing safe fresh-water wells for rural South Africans.

As long as I live I will be involved in some type of Christian humanitarian project at some level. There is a tremendous blessing that comes through handing a kid a new pair of athletic shoes or a new coat. I wish I could do more.

The problem is that charity is not the answer. It helps. It’s just not the answer.

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