Don’t fight culture

I'm going to start by saying that the biggest problem in helping your African or Chinese neighbor is accepting him the way he is.

Before all the financial or resource problems that one people may have, stands
their culture. Who they are is ten times more important that what they are
going to eat. It may seem rather disturbing when reading the surface of this
statement, but if you try to dive deeper into the idea, you'll understand that
before giving someone a piece of bread, you have to know how to approach that
someone, how to make him understand that your intentions are good and that he
can only gain if he accepts the offer.

We are different in so many ways. We have different cultures, traditions,
national artists and further more different and individual ideas, ways of life,
values and targets.

Let's try to focus on WHO we want to help and make our way around having this
as a starting point, rather than beginning with what we can provide. What
we can do for someone is directly influenced by what that someone needs and is
used to. Don't try to give away metallic structures to people that live in
wooden homes; because they like those homes, it's their culture, their history.
Try to improve that wooden home; maybe offer some thermal isolation for a
wooden home.

Bottom line, we need to fully understand and make friends with the ones in need
of help, before we can provide any.