Time Magazine
In the history of foreign aid, it looked pretty harmless: a young Florida businessman decided to collect a million shirts and send them to poor people in Africa. Jason Sadler just wanted to help. He thought he'd start with all the leftover T-shirts from his advertising company, I Wear Your Shirt. But judging from the response Sadler got from a group of foreign-aid bloggers, you'd think he wanted to toss squirrels into wood chippers or steal lunchboxes from fourth-graders.
"I have thick skin, I don't mind, but it's just the way they responded — it was just, 'You're an idiot, here's another stupid idea, I hope this fails,'" Sadler, 27, tells TIME. "It really was offensive because all I'm trying to do is trying to make something good happen and motivate people to get off their butts, get off the couch and do something to help."[...]
In the history of foreign aid, it looked pretty harmless: a young Florida businessman decided to collect a million shirts and send them to poor people in Africa. Jason Sadler just wanted to help. He thought he'd start with all the leftover T-shirts from his advertising company, I Wear Your Shirt. But judging from the response Sadler got from a group of foreign-aid bloggers, you'd think he wanted to toss squirrels into wood chippers or steal lunchboxes from fourth-graders.
"I have thick skin, I don't mind, but it's just the way they responded — it was just, 'You're an idiot, here's another stupid idea, I hope this fails,'" Sadler, 27, tells TIME. "It really was offensive because all I'm trying to do is trying to make something good happen and motivate people to get off their butts, get off the couch and do something to help."[...]
I used to give maaser to various charities here and in Israel, but after all those documents from EJF, Horizones, Kol Yaakov, the Kaplan fund were published online, and you could see all those millions of dollars are being transferred to rabbis and institutes who then send you letters at home complaining about their hardship I decided to stop.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure where I am going to give tzedaka if at all.
It's true. We all have to stop sending aid to third world countries. It stunts their growth. Like the late great Ronald Reagan once for the need for people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
ReplyDeleteIt's true. We all have to stop sending aid to third world countries. It stunts their growth. Like the late great Ronald Reagan once for the need for people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
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