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Eradicating world hunger is one of the dominant reasons for giving to charity. However, donating food may just be a stopgap solution to a growing problem. After all, when the giving stops, the eating stops as well.
The saying “…give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour; if you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn,” written by Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie and now an oft-cited proverb, is one of the inspirations for sustainable solutions against world hunger and poverty. People in the most impoverished areas around the world are increasingly relying on government aid and charity donations for their daily rations instead of actually learning livelihoods.
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What governments and charitable organizations can do is create programs that teach self-reliance in subsistence. Education can be the key to end world hunger, not limited food handout programs. Technology on how to grow food faster and more efficiently already exists, but knowledge of productive use is still wanting. Giving access to such technologies provides subsistence and a renewable source of income, and the opportunity to grow further economically through the sale of surplus produce.
These reforms need to be cushioned by governments. Protecting small farmers from the agricultural monopoly of big corporations is crucial their survival in the market and in life.
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Alex von Furstenberg dedicates his life to many charitable institutions via the Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation. More information about the Mr. von Furstenberg’s work with the foundation is detailed at this website.
