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More Poverty Tourism - Including Kibera Where 5 Minutes of the Film Takes Place

 11 Comments- Add comment Written on 09-Sep-2009 by kleinpictures
From Business Fights Poverty about Aid Agencies and Tourism: "Such escapades have been made even more popular by celebrities who sometime go by the title “Ambassadors” such as Angelina Jolie and Chris Rock, who after a tour of the ramshackle huts, having had to hold their breath while passing the open sewers, ducking the flying toilets while walking the narrow footpaths and in front of a trash heap, maybe surrounded by big bellied snot nosed children, express outrage at the poverty and make impassioned pleas for more money to assist the people. The ironic thing is that Kibera has the most number of NGOs, INGOs, CSOs, FBOs, CBOs, students on their gap year or whatever name they go by per square foot compared to the rest of Kenya. Yet, poverty persists, maybe a prime example of the economic law of diminishing returns."
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Poverty Porn, Blogs, Doctors Without Borders. What to do?

 8 Comments- Add comment Written on 05-Sep-2009 by kleinpictures

Poverty Porn. Gratuitously showing people in poverty to make a point. Some think the film Slumdog Millionaire did this, others think charities that take tourists/westerners to visit people in aid camps do it. Regardless, two bloggers (Africa Unchained, Aid Thoughts) and many more feel outraged by MSF (Doctors Without Borders) have gone to far in their new advertisement/YouTube video:

 

 

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