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[quote=Anonymous]Mission trips are dangerous to communities and exploit the poverty of the people for self serving reasons. There are all kinds of ways to rationalize them- exposure to other lives, building a few stoves, buying trinkets from locals, etc. Those are all ways to rationalize the the fact that they are truly not doing as much for others as they are for themselves under the guise of "helping the poor". Take that time you spent on fundraising (basically asking for handouts to fund an overseas vacation) and use it to do some research on which LOCAL organizations are already on ground there that you can help. And then ask for money to donate to that organization instead of using that money on plane tickets and trinkets. It's a gross behavior that has somehow become normalized in this society. [/quote]
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