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The #SWEDOW Sideshow Slideshow

Last updated on December 11, 2011

Courtesy of Foreign Policy, a slideshow showing the various things (too many people think) developing countries need:

Most of us don’t have billions of dollars to give away like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. But the charitable impulse is still strong: combined, Americans gave away almost $300 billion in 2010. Sometimes, though, good intentions have questionable results. In the rush to help after a crisis, public and private donors from around the world sometimes give without quite realizing what the needs on the ground are. Do Haitians really need your used yoga mat? Do the Balkans lack for clowns?

Pop-Tarts, yoga mats, and teddy bears, oh my!