For years, the Friends of the Saharawi people has a program whereby children of the Sahara spend a summer in Segovia, hosted by English families. These days, the local press public that it has completed the period of holidays and the kids have to go back to the stark reality of the African desert. Go ahead I admire any non-profit work that is intended to improve life of people who for some reason or other are not lucky enough to have you who read me, and I write you.
Now, I can not turn around this summer activity and consider whether these children actually benefit them spend two months in Spain. This time no doubt will have been a magical experience for them but what they knew the very different reality that separates us can go home, or rather, their camps, and still be those of before? If you establish a simile a bit frivolous and perhaps unfair, that this is like putting candy in the mouth of a child and then remove it. Okay, have met amazing people in Spain who has given all love (and I applaud) but are now returning to their world that have none of the advantages and amenities, and will miss. ("We teach you what is available and you will never enjoy") and will be remembering their way through the "First World" as something that could suck, although in many cases not be more than that, in a permanent aspiration that never materialize. And there may arise unhappiness.
often read words cooperating quite rightly say we are wrong to think that in Africa, Latin America and parts of Asia there are many happy people despite having little (or nothing). They show that the material wealth is not synonymous with success, but if kids get used to the mirages that evaporate quickly, there may be born of frustration difficult to erase.
some time (and I was so close to one she had enjoyed as a dwarf) do not believe in solidarity tourism or the man who comes here and not so much of that going there, that with the false pretense of "helping" serves only to live an experience that fills a personal level, but that solidarity is quite low, the false disguise that we put the trip. Not good for developing countries such visits. The citizens there get used to them and instead of trying to fend for themselves and move forward, donations and grants expected to get along with the classic "bread for today, hunger for tomorrow." No need to go to Mozambique to help out. In Spain it takes a thousand hands in solidarity, both awareness and material, but of course, if you travel can not be presumed to have been at the end of the world, being one for twenty days.
