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#157 Darrel Larson – When Helping Hurts

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Release Date: 07/01/2020

#379 Jack Calhoun: Your Perfect Encore Career show art #379 Jack Calhoun: Your Perfect Encore Career

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Show Notes  Jack Calhoun is the Founder and President of Encore Career Lab, where he helps professionals reinvent their lives after their primary career is over. Jack founded Encore Career Lab to show you how to create your perfect encore career that keeps you feeling engaged, purposeful and joyful while still providing you all the freedom and flexibility you’ve been craving when you leave your first career behind. Hmm… Jack and I seem to swim to similar ponds. Let’s find out… With that, let’s bring on him on the show.   Links Please visit Jack’s website for...

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In his daily post, Sabbath Moment, our guest today, Terry Hershey, addresses the vital need for art and music in our lives as salves in dealing with trying political times. He quotes the band Jethro when they write… “When people in power try to remove our humanity and dignity, art and music provide a Raison D’etre.” Art and music are certainly far more than an escape…  And so with this, I chat with author, teacher, and landscape architect, Terry Hershey. LINKS You can find out much more about Terry at his website Sabbath Moment .

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Today I plan to dedicate our show to an unsung but essential topic: I want to discuss the potential shortcomings related to economic and social aid to the Developing World, (or in old terms, 3rd World countries).

Basically, the question is this: is your investment in the poor and disenfranchised in the Developing World being administrated with the longer term needs of communities being considered, or… is it about short term walk away money?

My guest, Darrel Larson, has vast philanthropic experience in several foreign countries, including Fiji, the Philippines and several countries on the continent of Africa.

With hearts for developing the social good to the most needy in the world, Darrel and I will spend our time today discussing how oftentimes, our desire to serve the poor and disenfranchised can frequently result in short-term benefit, but longer term disadvantage.

I recently watched a documentary titled, Poverty Inc. (a quite informative and a bit disturb documentary) that developed the concept stated in Steve Corbett’s popular book, When Helping Hurts. The thesis: if we give resources such as money, or in my case water wells, without empowering the communities to assume responsibility of these gifts we have given them, the result can be “dependence on foreign aid,” instead of independence, self-determination and self-respect. Like the familiar adage, we are giving them fish, not teaching them to fish.

Today, we will discuss the idea of projects “with” locals verses projects “to” locals. Three types of giving will be discussed: Relief Giving, Alleviation from Poverty Giving, and finally, Developmental Giving.

My guest, Darrel Larson is a seasoned vet in international affairs regarding poverty. He is currently International Director of Sawyer Filters, which provides clean and safe water for thousands of homes across the world. Darrel is also founder of the non-profit, Give Clean Water, and he has served Outreach Pastor at two churches in San Diego.

 

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