Why International Charities Need To Make Themselves Redundant | Weh Yeoh | TEDxHaymarket

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  • @snowball3219
    @snowball3219 5 років тому +61

    Finally somebody who questions how the good work that charities do, can be done even better and in a sustainable manner. I so often see countries not progressing because international charities lack exit strategies, just look at Haïti. Doing good work is great, but making a country self sufficiënt should be the goal.

    • @AyubuKK
      @AyubuKK 5 років тому

      BeedleNeedle Exactly

  • @karthik.g63
    @karthik.g63 5 років тому +14

    Hit the nail right on the head.
    I have had this discourse and many like it with several of my colleagues in the development/humanitarian aid/charity sector and I think you've summed up the problem very well.
    Liked and sharing!

  • @kevinlove8204
    @kevinlove8204 5 років тому +6

    Yesterday I ate Panda Express because I was feeling like really living it up. They ask everyone of us “useless feeders at checkout if we want to donate a dollar to “Children’s hospitals” Charities aren’t to be generally trusted & I wonder why a world full of a handful of trillionaires thousands of billionaires and millions of millionaires do the people working paycheck to paycheck need to bear the brunt of caring for hospitals for sick children? It’s a rhetorical question of course.
    Thank you
    God bless

    • @HK-gv5sb
      @HK-gv5sb 5 років тому

      @Aryaman Rajaputra There are way more than a couple hundred millionaires.

  • @AnushtupHaldar
    @AnushtupHaldar 5 років тому +1

    Quite an enlightening talk. Never saw the issue this way, and now I think Weh Yeoh is correct. Working this way, and making this the norm - that is, more and more charities ensuring towards working in a way that they become redundant after setting up a process of sustainability - would mean that only those charities/non-profits/NGOs that really want to work to solve a problem would be appreciated, and hence funded (the important part) and not just any and every charity/non-profit/NGO, many of which just want to gobble up funding for their own ends.

  • @funnyguyinlondon
    @funnyguyinlondon 3 роки тому

    What about the bureaucrats and paper pushers and fundraising goons for the charities if those charities actually solve problems permanently towards their own redundancy?

  • @comedianmattrossey
    @comedianmattrossey 5 років тому +1

    Very well stated and very true Weh Yeoh. These kinds of talks are why I love TEDx and TEDTALK's

  • @popybarua3216
    @popybarua3216 4 роки тому

    Randomly thought of many, but finally well said by this guy..... Bravo 🤗 and Good Luck

  • @catsupchutney
    @catsupchutney 5 років тому

    So we need ratios: instead of number of children seen in a year, wells or girls in school, it should be expressed as a ratio of children seen over children requiring attention, wells constructed over number wells needed and girls enrolled over girls who are denied schooling. When the second number in the pair is negligible, work is done.

  • @unleashingpotential-psycho9433
    @unleashingpotential-psycho9433 5 років тому +1

    Great video! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

  • @expertophysik5599
    @expertophysik5599 5 років тому

    Awesome video

  • @NathPritam147
    @NathPritam147 5 років тому +1

    That's an amazing inspiring video for many people those who want to find their career in this field 🙏🙏🙏

  • @iloveyouamberappel
    @iloveyouamberappel 5 років тому +1

    I expect this of international charities and always have. That is why I don't understand companies like World Vision who work to bring running water to places in Africa. I see them as a failure.

  • @qasemtv993
    @qasemtv993 5 років тому

    super .. nice one

  • @Starry_Night_Sky7455
    @Starry_Night_Sky7455 5 років тому

    Aren't some of them like clever corporations? Look at the executive salaries and perks, or the administration "expenses"???

  • @melgehl9128
    @melgehl9128 5 років тому

    Interesting - cheers

  • @RajKaFanda
    @RajKaFanda 5 років тому

    Nice video 👌👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👌👌

  • @ven657
    @ven657 5 років тому

    Charities are business and are evangelical. They are there to line their pocket and convert. Every charity needs to register themselves with the local government. This registration should be for a finite period, and stands cancelled after the period. They should file their audited annual return of revenue and expenditure. Failing which their CEO should be jailed.
    Diners should ask for audited accounts, even web based would do. See the percentage of money spent on charity to amount spent on self propogation. If the ratio is greater than 1.7 consider donating otherwise not.

  • @AyubuKK
    @AyubuKK 5 років тому

    This is reminding me of the Growth Mindset videos.

  • @ujjalregmi2079
    @ujjalregmi2079 5 років тому

    nice video

  • @forisma
    @forisma 5 років тому

    👏👏👏

  • @LindaPow
    @LindaPow 5 років тому

    Weh Yeoh Speech Therapists or World Language Translators?

  • @momaureen5785
    @momaureen5785 5 років тому

    International charities will never leave because they create employment for their citizens in those countries that's why those countries are never developed to the point of being independent from the charities.

  • @ChessMasteryOfficial
    @ChessMasteryOfficial 5 років тому +3

    *Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ₩*

    • @dadsonworldwide3238
      @dadsonworldwide3238 5 років тому +2

      Put my kids in the best position to successful and be happy .

    • @kevinlove8204
      @kevinlove8204 5 років тому

      Discover Your Awesomeness That quote has given me no need to watch. Thank you

  • @srisham.
    @srisham. 5 років тому

    Ya it's worth should reach common man good day 🍎

  • @FreedomForKashmir
    @FreedomForKashmir 5 років тому

    you think i am dead. but let me tell you that i am alive in the hearts and minds of millions of Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani Muslims and I am known as hero of freedom movement aimed at getting freedom from the brutality and oppression of terrorist India
    And Indian use of force cannot ever beat Ideology and concept of 2 Nation Theory

    • @veipuniilana1842
      @veipuniilana1842 5 років тому

      You the one writing the comment no want think you are dead. Go and study kid

  • @NWon-zy4mf
    @NWon-zy4mf 5 років тому +1

    lel

  • @FreedomForKashmir
    @FreedomForKashmir 5 років тому +1

    you think i am dead. but let me tell you that i am alive in the hearts and minds of millions of Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani Muslims and I am known as hero of freedom movement aimed at getting freedom from the brutality and oppression of terrorist India
    And Indian use of force cannot ever beat Ideology and concept of 2 Nation Theory