"The challenge, however, is to wed this compassion to action that works. The poor don’t need what they often receive from the affluent: secondhand clothes, free Thanksgiving meals and taxpayer-funded government aid. The poor, whether in the developed or developing world, need opportunity. They need the freedom to address their own poverty in their own context." Why Economic Freedom & Opportunity Ease Poverty https://tifwe.org/why-economic-freedom-opportunity-ease-poverty/