Tyler G Hall and Caroline Teti – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Thu, 30 May 2024 19:26:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Tyler G Hall and Caroline Teti – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 Sharing stories of poverty but not ‘poverty porn’ https://www.givedirectly.org/poverty-porn/ Tue, 21 Feb 2023 07:54:33 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=8860 “The sight of a child so starved he’s too weak to cry… it’s enough to make the angels cry,” says Sally Struthers, strolling through a slum in an unidentified south Asian country. These Christian Children’s Fund ads, which ran for two decades, exemplify the ‘poverty porn’ trope still employed by many charities––a practice so ubiquitous it’s earned a satiric awards series spotlighting the worst…

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