> whose primary purpose is to make the volunteers feel good about themselves. Or to give jobs to people employed by the organization doing all this. :( I'm no

> whose primary purpose is to make the volunteers feel good about themselves. Or to give jobs to people employed by the organization doing all this. :( I'm not saying that's the conscious goal of the organizers or staff, who I'm sure are well-intentioned. But if you were an imaginary "alien anthropologist" looking at the actual outcomes of so much "philanthropy" in our world and assuming that the outcomes represent the purpose, i think you might determine that the main point of it all is to provide professional jobs to people in already relatively wealthy communities. :(