If you are reading this, there is a good chance that you are outrageously wealthier than an average Haitian man or woman. He is sitting right now on a pile of large rocks in the hot sun, chipping them into smaller rocks with the hope to sell them as gravel. She is carrying 40 pounds of water on her head on a mile-long trek from a muddy creek to a muddy hovel. Clearly, these folks need a little assistance, but what kind?
Should we just buy them some food and a water purifier? Will that change their situation? Will anything?
Join us as we engage with a recent practitioner of charity in one of the poorest countries in the world. True Charity’s own Membership Director Nathan Mayo and his wife lived and worked in rural Haiti from 2018 to 2020. Nathan combines his economic perspective with firsthand experience to explore the unintended consequences of one-way giving and consider better alternatives at home and abroad.
