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desdeeastvan comments on the many diffferent colors of Colombianos

re: the many diffferent colours of mexicans I hear you man. Everywhere I went in latin america people asked me what state I was from. When I answered that I was from Canada, they asked what state that was.... It became even more confusing when I tried to explain that while I was born in Canada, my parents are from Europe. Or that in the city I life in, more then half the kids in grade school don't speak english, but mandarin and cantonese.

desdeeastvan comments on Sending Charity Containers to Colombia

Shop Locally, Think Globally I think 21st century ideas on best practice on aid involves buying stuff in the country you want to help, rather then shipping a bunch of second hand stuff across the ocean. I first heard this from the Red Cross here in Canada, which does not accept donations of this type. Best to send cash directly to the people you want to help, and let them purchase what they need to get ahead locally. If you want to give all those nice clothes and shoes away, there are plenty of poor people in your home town who will make good use of them. Some of them may even be from Colombia originally. If the clothes are any good, you could even sell them in a retro shop in the hip part of town, and sent the money south.

Is there a real shortage of this kind of stuff in Colombia, or just a shortage of cash in peoples pockets to buy what they need?