Essential Question Post #6

Recently in english class we watched a video documentary of a man who went to China, and ended up helping a family by buying them a water buffalo. A water buffalo is a huge gift for a poor family in China because a water buffalo helps a famer so much with cultivating the land or it can feed a family for six whole months if you kill it. I thought that this was amazing. I think that this way of helping people is more realistic than Peter Singer's soultion for world poverty, and what Zell Kravinsky did. You don't necessarily have to give money. Instead you can give them something more personal, like the water buffalo. It seemes much more rewarding because you give it directly to the people that you are helping, and in the case of the water buffalo, you know that it's help will last atleast around 15 years, and it will feed a whole family for six months if they kill it. The family who ended up getting the water buffalo were so happy and thankfull that they even cried. The people that gave the water buffalo to the poor family in China felt really accomplished and happy, but Zell Kravinsky was still unhappy, and he never felt like he was giving enough even though he donated all of his money. So, I think that i shyould be doing something more personal to help make the world around me a better place instead of just donating money to some charity. I want to feel like im really making a difference.