re: .

i am not a big fan of direct charity here, either. building sustainable economic avenues is the only real way to help

unless you're building a sweat shop or some other industry requiring low-skilled labor, and you're willing to invest all that money and live out there in squalor, you're not going to help out that much long-term. hell, odds are in those countries the very issue that makes the people poor (oppressive states) will not allow you to do exactly what you need to do

you can do things here, though