http://www.metafilter.com/tags/swedow Posts tagged with 'swedow' at MetaFilter. Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:07:57 -0800 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:07:57 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/113608/we%2Ddont%2Dwant%2Dyour%2Dshoes Thinking of <a href="http://www.theroot.com/views/dead-white-people-s-clothes">donating clothes to Africa?</a> <a href="http://whereamiwearing.com/2011/04/06/toms-shoes/">Buying shoes so that someone else can have a pair</a> (or just <a href="http://socialchangecollaboratory.org/2011/04/05/walk-in-someone-elses-shoes/">go a day without shoes)? How about <a href="http://philanthropy.com/blogs/prospecting/buying-products-tied-to-charities-depresses-giving-new-study-finds/29534?sid=&utm_source=&utm_medium=en">buying charity products</a> or <a href="http://goodintents.org/aid-recipient-concerns/disaster-tourism">visiting impoverished nations</a> to <a href="http://www.lattitude.org.uk/2012/02/avoiding-the-dangers-of-voluntourism/">volunteer</a>? <a href="http://matadornetwork.com/change/7-worst-international-aid-ideas/">Please reconsider</a>. Your <a href="http://goodintents.org/in-kind-donations/donating-shoes-aid-fads">good intentions</a> are likely just <a href="http://goodintents.org/common-aid-problems/the-worst-in-kind-donations">paving the path to Hell</a> (or <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101986498">economic danger</a>) with <a href="http://katintanzania.wordpress.com/2011/04/06/a-day-without-dignity-or-more-swedow/">Stuff We Don't Want</a>.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.113608 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:07:57 -0800 aid charity donations foreignaid ineffective international internationaldevelopment swedow divabat