Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] Fish WAS: IMGS: Children of the World
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 06:40:23 +0200

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Philip Clarke <nod at bouncing.org> wrote:
> The whole Live Aid
> phenomena was based around the principles of teaching a person to fish
> rather than giving them some food, so showing tearful children as a
> method of identifying is a backwards step. Currently the message being
> sent by pictures like those is "I identify with that child and the
> terrible conditions they live in, so I shall work for a living to give
> them money" which is wrong on any level.

I don't want to get involved with the other stuff, but I understand
what you are getting at. Things tend to get warped in the fluttering
passing of emails so it's alway necessary to very careful when you say
things here on the LUG. There is a willingness to disagree and take
out frustrations on each other.

So I'll not get involved with commenting the thread of comments on
these specific pictures. I missed the initial introductory text in the
flurry of "need a password".

But I whole agree with what you say above, once again, I am taking it
out of the context of commenting on specific pictures.

Your point is crucial to really helping people. It is no mystery that
micro-loans have been rewarded so grandly with economic prizes. Around
where I live there is a push to get goats out there in women's hands
(men just kill 'em and eat 'em, we're looking for sustainable
development).

Around where I work in Malawi fish is a good solid foundation. Fish,
that's what prompted me to comment (I was just trying to watch my ass
above so I don't get burned).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7433120.stm

A concrete success story about teaching someone to fish. This lady
works right around where my recent pictures came from.

Daniel