Is our giving actually helpful? Ethiopia lessons

The hosts weigh whether gift boxes are effective relief: a $30 box could instead buy 60,000 liters of potable water, 100 kg of maize meal feeding a family for four months, school fees and uniforms for six kids, or breeding goats in rural Zambia. They share Ethiopia lessons - $300 feeding an orphanage for months, donated goats nobody could store, toothbrush sticks - and argue American givers solve problems through an affluent lens instead of asking recipients what they need. It closes with the caution that people in poverty cultures will sit through a gospel presentation for free stuff, so givers should be prudent about what God's money actually does.