Over two billion dollars are spent, and more than two million Christians go on short term missions trips each year. In excess of two trillion dollars have been sent to Africa in the last 60 years while Haiti has received over $13 billion in foreign aid ($5 billion from the United States) in the last 13 years. Despite the influx of billions of foreign aid and charity dollars along with millions of volunteers most of the people in Africa, Haiti, and other developing countries still live in poverty with very little infrastructure. The tendency of parachurch organizations, non governmental organizations (NGOs), and nonprofits to slowly, or never, pivot from crisis relief to long term development in conjunction with the propensity of short term mission workers having a giver-receiver mindset lead to what author Robert Lupton calls toxic charity, which happens to also be the title of his book.
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