Thursday, February 06, 2014

China could immediately begin to improve it's economy by developing it's own domestic "AmeriCorps."

No country in the world has to accept the agendas of non-profits that do not have the best interests of their people in mind. We witnessed the spread of HIV in Africa with the presence of Christian organizations.

The earliest domestic effort to assist communities in the USA was a program by the great JFK.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy (click here) envisioned a national service corps “to help provide urgently needed services in urban and rural poverty areas.” Less than two years later, President Lyndon B. Johnson realized Kennedy's dream by launching the “War on Poverty.” Johnson welcomed the first group of 20 VISTA volunteers saying, “Your pay will be low; the conditions of your labor often will be difficult. But you will have the satisfaction of leading a great national effort and you will have the ultimate reward which comes to those who serve their fellow man.”

While foreign non-profits bring new monies into an emerging economy, it may hinder the very social and economic development needed. China especially, has needs to bring education and work force skills to it's people. It needs to move to one currency ultimately. But, there is profound poverty in China that can be stemmed by a domestic volunteer corp that would cost China minimal budget expenses. The domestic volunteers are paid a stipends, supplied with resources to build schools and provide even the simplest of learning for concepts such as SANITATION.

China has a sincere problem with 'product quality' because the facilities where products are produced lack sanitation. These facilities use ingredients that are dangerous to the people of China and the global economy it seeks to participate in. China would benefit immensely by developing a domestic volunteer corp that taught the Chinese people sanitary concepts while learning reading, composition of writing and math. There is no reason for any Chinese person to be impoverished in knowledge that can improve their well being and their future to participate in the Chinese economy.

There is no reason why China should fear a learned citizen. China has a proud history. Teaching every Chinese citizen it's history will instill a sense of understanding of the past and the promise of it's future.