Finally somebody who questions how the good work that charities do, can be done even better and in a sustainable manner. I so often see countries not progressing because international charities lack exit strategies, just look at Haïti. Doing good work is great, but making a country self sufficiënt should be the goal.

Hit the nail right on the head. I have had this discourse and many like it with several of my colleagues in the development/humanitarian aid/charity sector and I think you've summed up the problem very well. Liked and sharing!

Yesterday I ate Panda Express because I was feeling like really living it up. They ask everyone of us “useless feeders at checkout if we want to donate a dollar to “Children’s hospitals” Charities aren’t to be generally trusted & I wonder why a world full of a handful of trillionaires thousands of billionaires and millions of millionaires do the people working paycheck to paycheck need to bear the brunt of caring for hospitals for sick children? It’s a rhetorical question of course. Thank you God bless

Very well stated and very true Weh Yeoh. These kinds of talks are why I love TEDx and TEDTALK's

Quite an enlightening talk. Never saw the issue this way, and now I think Weh Yeoh is correct. Working this way, and making this the norm - that is, more and more charities ensuring towards working in a way that they become redundant after setting up a process of sustainability - would mean that only those charities/non-profits/NGOs that really want to work to solve a problem would be appreciated, and hence funded (the important part) and not just any and every charity/non-profit/NGO, many of which just want to gobble up funding for their own ends.

What about the bureaucrats and paper pushers and fundraising goons for the charities if those charities actually solve problems permanently towards their own redundancy?

That's an amazing inspiring video for many people those who want to find their career in this field 🙏🙏🙏

Randomly thought of many, but finally well said by this guy..... Bravo 🤗 and Good Luck

I expect this of international charities and always have. That is why I don't understand companies like World Vision who work to bring running water to places in Africa. I see them as a failure.

So we need ratios: instead of number of children seen in a year, wells or girls in school, it should be expressed as a ratio of children seen over children requiring attention, wells constructed over number wells needed and girls enrolled over girls who are denied schooling. When the second number in the pair is negligible, work is done.

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This is reminding me of the Growth Mindset videos.

Charities are business and are evangelical. They are there to line their pocket and convert. Every charity needs to register themselves with the local government. This registration should be for a finite period, and stands cancelled after the period. They should file their audited annual return of revenue and expenditure. Failing which their CEO should be jailed. Diners should ask for audited accounts, even web based would do. See the percentage of money spent on charity to amount spent on self propogation. If the ratio is greater than 1.7 consider donating otherwise not.

Aren't some of them like clever corporations? Look at the executive salaries and perks, or the administration "expenses"???

Awesome video

Interesting - cheers

super .. nice one

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International charities will never leave because they create employment for their citizens in those countries that's why those countries are never developed to the point of being independent from the charities.

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Ya it's worth should reach common man good day 🍎

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Weh Yeoh Speech Therapists or World Language Translators?

you think i am dead. but let me tell you that i am alive in the hearts and minds of millions of Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani Muslims and I am known as hero of freedom movement aimed at getting freedom from the brutality and oppression of terrorist India And Indian use of force cannot ever beat Ideology and concept of 2 Nation Theory

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you think i am dead. but let me tell you that i am alive in the hearts and minds of millions of Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani Muslims and I am known as hero of freedom movement aimed at getting freedom from the brutality and oppression of terrorist India And Indian use of force cannot ever beat Ideology and concept of 2 Nation Theory