A YouTube episode (hosted by Will Humphreys) highlighting Care For Life’s approach to sustainable community development. The episode contrasts short-term charity with long-term capacity building (teaching people to teach others) and opens with an emotional account from Jim Brewer about a failed clinic in Guatemala that motivated the organization’s methods. The tone is motivational and personal.
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Life. This company has been around for decades and me, my wife and four boys spent an entire month in Africa learning from them how they have completely rewritten how to give to the poor communities of the world. They don't just give a man a fish over there. They don't even teach a man to fish. They teach other men and women how to teach other men and women how to fish. So they have these sustainable communities that develop into entrepreneurs who start running businesses and they start growing themselves out of poverty. And the episode begins with Jim Brewer, the vice president, explaining how her realization when she was in Guatemala decades ago, when they set up a medical clinic that just fell apart when these saviors from across the sea didn't show up. This is going to be an emotional episode. You're going to hear me tear up a few times and that's okay because this content will be life changing. Guys, enjoy the show.
I was walking home after translating in the clinic and saw their health clinic that was closed and I was like, what the heck? And then.