CARE Still Sucks

It just looks good because Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children and World Vision are worse. Some thoughts:

The aid group CARE should be applauded for their decision to stop distributing U.S. surplus food, and other charities, Catholic Relief Services and World Vision in particular, should be encouraged to follow suit. However, the lessons that CARE has "learned" in recent years, were apparent to them and to thousands of others, aid workers, economists, and African farmers, decades ago. Over that time, CARE vigorously denied that their "aid" was harming people at all. And given that the organization has seen the light, why wait two more years to end a policy that they now admit is causing harm in an already vulnerable region of the world? The answer lies in the economics of aid and relief charities: Their very existence depends on their continued functioning as a U.S. government contractor. CARE and others wishing to end destructive food dumping must first find sources of income to replace the taxpayer subsidies that they are currently receiving. This fact underlines the sad truth about relief-and-development charities: Their primary purpose is to raise funds to ensure their own survival, even if that means undermining the very causes they purport to champion.