Charting a Curriculum For Educational Charity

In all sense of it, what they poor need most isbeneficiary by creating dependence and completely
educational charity. The reason is obvious; thereoverlooking the remote challenges of the poor
several kinds of charity and intervention models.people. It is a kind of spoon-feeding the poor with
These could be divided into educational and nonbread that will soon finish. It feeds but it does not
educational charity.equip the poor for possible future challenges.
In the strict sense of definition, non educationalThe second aspect of charity and intervention model
charity explores the act of charitable donations andfor salvaging the menace of poverty, disease and
other measures for providing the poor populations ofhunger among the poor and the underprivileged is
the world with material or financial resources aimed ateducational charity. As a matter of fact, this is what
alleviating their poverty, hunger and disease. But itthe poor actually need, and must be given if the
does not go beyond that. This is the conventionaldevelopment partners; world governments, corporate
notion of charity and intervention among interestpartners and non profit making organisations hope to
groups, governments, corporate bodies and non forachieve the desired goals. This concept of charity and
profit making organisations. One single outstandingintervention model is all encompassing. But over and
defect of non educational charity is that it does notabove all, the differentiating factor is that it does not
look beyond the immediate problems of thejust provide measures to solve the immediate
beneficiary, and thereby perpetuates dependencyproblems of the poor, it also empowers the poor and
and the vicious circle of poverty, hunger and disease.the underprivileged to be capable of solving their
Over the years the world, especially the developedproblems without recourse to external intervention.
nations and the western powers have explored theUsing education as it common strategy, this concept
concept of material or non educational charity toof charity harness resources to educate the poor,
tackle the issue of poverty among the poor circlesequipping them with the needed skills and knowledge
of the third world. However, this can only alleviatepackages that will enable them to break the chain of
poverty within the immediate future, but the factdependence and take their destiny in their hands at
remains that such approach to charity enslaves theany moment.