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When charitable work feels like perpetuating the problems it addresses

I have been volunteering at the food bank for eight years and I love the people but I am starting to think we are just managing poverty instead of solving it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Long-term service can reveal the inadequacy of individual goodness in the face of systemic problems.

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