Cut foreign aid to South America.
Though nowhere near the troubling levels of Africa, when the money doesn't land in obscure hands and directly funds perverse agendas, it usually turns into an enslaving plain hand-out charity program, which causes much more harm than good.
There are specific cases where foreign aid would actually help, usually in disaster areas, and each case must be analized individually, but long-term hand-out with no plan or goal or exit route is negative in anyway you see it.
Not to mention the absurd cases, such as the official British and Australian financing of the disarmament campaign in Brazil, I wonder how the Brit and Aussie tax payer would feel if you told him his hard-earned money was wasted on a failed, useless, campaign.
On a private level, there are European marxist Catholic Priests who willingly or unwillingly help finance criminal organizations by handing over money to obscure NGO's, one of which was almost shut down when many irregularities were found in its finances, after that the donations ceased.
The assassins of the American Nun were linked to an organization which had received private foreign aid, it's hard to tell, but most donators probably don't even know where their money is going to, and that it is being used by murderers!
I would also like to suggest to anyone that you avoid donating to Care, WWF or Green Peace when it comes to donations to Brazil, these three organizations may have some nice people who wants to do good and help, but the best they have done overall is waste ALOT of money, there are a few succesfull projects, but there are others that are a plain money drain, sometimes I wonder if they are doing money laundry or if they simply don't care since there is always more money raining in.
But if your conscience demands it or you just want to do your part, then buy shares on our Stock Market or Bonds, buy Brazilian imported products, and only donate to organizations if you can personally check where the money is going to, if it is hard to verify, search for another organization, by doing any of this you are actually supporting independent people who are pulling their own weight in society, we can take care of our own charity needs.
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