Financial Aid for the Underdeveloped Countries

The Nonsense of the Policy for the Development of Third World Countries

Today again, more than 4000 children will die, one child every second. They are starving. Awful? It would be much worse if those children did not die, if they grew up to have children of their own. Then the catastrophe would be much bigger. Their silent deaths preserve the world from a situation surpassing the actual dying. Stop that fatal nonsense of those ads of a dark-haired child looking at us with his hungry eyes. Stop the modern ad strategies that methodically cultivate our compassion, the consequences of which are deadly. For each child saved today by those organizations, there will be five or six in the next generation. In order to preserve only one of these miserable children the combined efforts of “Misereeor” (1) and “Brot für die Welt” (2) would not be sufficient enough.

 Professor Hoimar von Dithfurt in “Der Spiegel”, Aug. 13th, 1984.

Professor Hoimar von Dithfurt was born in Berlin in 1921. Professor Dithfurt died of cancer in 1989 in Freiburg. He had studied medicine, psychology, philosophy, had worked as a doctor in a hospital, and for the German pharmaceutical giant Böhringer, before he left to work for the German TV networks as a scientific adviser, having his own television show “Querschnitt” (“cross-cut”).

(1)   Misereeor – from Latin, meaning pity / compassion --- Third World organization of the German Catholic Church

(2)   “Brot für die Welt” (Bread for the World) – Third World organization of the German Protestant Churches