• A goat for Xmas

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 • A goat for Xmas

Posted by DavidMc at 2007-11-29 11:31 PM
If Xmas wasn't bad enough, we now have the opportunity to patronize poor people and feel superior at the same time.

Here is some ammunition if you run into a goat giver.

Sadhavi Sharma    
Why these patronising gifts get my goat
Giving donkeys, goats, therapy or campaigning packs to developing countries only helps to reinforce Third World poverty.
Spiked. Thursday 21 December 2006


Sadhavi Sharma is a volunteer with the youth education charity WORLDwrite. Their slogan is Ferraris for All. I haven't checked but on the face of it they seem like the sort of people who would support OLPC.


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