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A Flourishing Garden of Faith in Liberia
- In her desperation, Tutu cried out to God. He answered through a Samaritan’s Purse urban gardening project, which is now blessing her and others in need.
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Hunger and malnutrition are constant threats in Liberia, with few safety nets to catch families when they fall. Here, in one of the poorest nations on earth, parents often face incredibly difficult choices.
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The Samaritan’s Purse team brought shovels, hoes, rakes, a wheelbarrow. There were also seeds for lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pepper, and cabbage.
Our team showed Tutu how to build raised garden beds, how to space her crops for sunlight and airflow, and how to grow vegetables in sacks—a method she’d never seen before but one critical for avoiding erosion and soil diseases.
“I already knew a little about planting cassava—that’s a common food here—but I had never seen a garden with all these things,” she said. “Especially one growing in bags. That was new to me.”
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I love when a true charity sparks in the dejected impoverished individual entrepreneurship and that lifts them out of poverty and spreads dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) organically in civil society. What more can someone ask for their personal “foreign aid” donation that to truly change the world?
I’ve read many times small charities distribute livestock to needy families or villages and eliminated starvation and poverty by introducing “capital animals” to spark optimism, hope, and industry.
Just recently, I read about “camel’s milk” becoming an “industry” by the introduction of some knowledge (i.e., camel care; processing milk) and some technology (i.e., milking tools and technique). How much could that have cost? And the “uplift” is enormous.
Western civilization has uncovered “capitalism” as the key that unlocks the prison of poverty. No better way to get hostile individuals to cooperate than by demonstrating “win win” solutions.
I’ve often thought badly about USA’s “foreign aid” which is described as “poor people in the USA donating to rich people in foreign countries”. What better way to transform it than to get “We, The Sheeple” to support these transformative charities. Gooferment can’t do “charity” efficiently or effectively. Private organizations can focus on worthy causes and individuals. Time to end Gooferment “foreign aid”.
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