Does Foreign Aid Help or Hurt Poor People?
Words: 724 1150The generator at the clinic had been silent for three days when the shipment arrived. I was volunteering in a rural Honduran town during spring break of my sophomore year, and I watched clinic staff unpack boxes of prenatal vitamins with expiration dates from two years earlier and infant formula when the region desperately needed water purification tablets. The director smiled politely and signed the donation receipt, then stored the boxes in a back room already stacked with mismatched supplies […]
