if i remember

and whislt doing non profit work how can you sustain yourself

as in food home etc

i was still at home, working for him a couple times on the weekend

this was while in high school, but he is retired i think, and his wife is a math teacher. he does all kids of crazy shit, this is just one of the things

and he (David Schweidenback) has been all over. lived in south america for a time if i remember, living in one of the mountain ranges

awesome guy

soundspretty great actually

maybe one day in the not too distant future i'll be able to meet back up with them and have some capital to invest into them, at least help expand operations

we were still getting a decent amount of bikes for it being in the middle of the recession when i worked there, around 2010 or 11

oh shit, they spun off the sewing machine part (no pun intended)

@DefinitlyNotInsane - NL if you have time, here is an interview he did with a local news team about the start of it all and waht they do http://www.p4p.org/podcasts/podcastNicoleSmithInterviewsDaveSchweidenback20180328.mp3

this is the shit that should be on the news more often, not what dumb shit trump said

Thanks! Ill look into it @Grenade123

he shares a bunch of stories of what inspired him and how he saw it succeeding

awesome stuff

Sup mofos

```i sometimes don;t think foreign aid is meant to aid, so much as to make a dependency for leverage```
I agree, wich is why I don't like all those Africanophile NGOs that do more harm than good. Because they give free stuff to the Africans, who hate "the white man", so that they can live (hating white people)...
And and one African female has on average like 4-5 kids....
Ähm, I see a big problem here...

Also they breed faster when theres food. Its basically feeding a beast that will bite you when you stop

Congratulations, you now understand the primary function of aid in geopolitics

Aid is a temporary solution for an unvorseable event.

It can and must not be a permanent solution ever, like its the case in Africa....

it's also a tool to create dependency and control a country's resources

if you're their only reliable food supply, they have no choice but to give you favourable trade deals and allow you to take whatever you want

Remember when, instead of teaching people how to purify water, they decided to ship them those fucking straws?

@Stefan Payne the best type of aid is ideas

conservatives are just like the left change my mind

Far-right and the far-left are the same

those are the logical extremes

Conservatives and left do tolerate each other

the right will be similar to germany and the left russia

with time ofc

I dont understand whats being argued

In what way are you asserting that they're similar

no hes just jerking me off

yeah philosophically they are similar

```@Stefan Payne the best type of aid is ideas```
Exactly! And the people need to want the idas and changes. And I don't really see that in Africa...

Just a thing to think about:
In the 1950 the GDP of Kenya was superior to that of (South) Korea.
Today South Korea is far superior to Kenya. Why is that? The only conclusion is that it is because of the people., And that is a "Resource" that is grossly underestimated.

@Stefan Payne the closer people get to reason the more they prosper

look the west once we took Aristotles rational egoism and laws of logic

```Far-right and the far-left are the same```
The ideas are different, the outcome and forms of gouvernment are the same.
Just look at the Institutions of Nazi Germany and the Communist East Germany. You'll find many similaritys. And the commies had not less deaths due to the gouvernment than the Nazis, just the cause was different.

BUT: The holodomor was IMO more evil than the working camps of Nazi Germany.
Just imagine that you'll be shot because you eat grains that you collected, while already starving. Is there anything more evil than shooting a starving person that is trying his/her best to survive??

communism is just more altruisitic