You keep hearing about impoverished Third World countries, who is first, who is second and is there a Fourth World??

I have a burning desire to help orphans/abandoned children in third world countries. I was wondering if anyone has any information on how I could best do this.

I do not have much money myself to donate, but I wish to raise money for charity, but which is the best one?? Which can do the most with the money?

I have small children so I can’t volunteer at the moment, (although I am looking into it for the future,) but I also have lots of clothes they have outgrown. I used to give them to charity shops here but have since read articles that seem to raise te question of whether or not all the benifits are actually getting through.Therefore, the best stuff I want to sell on ebay, (with profits going to charity,) but does anyone know if there are organisations that will send the other bits, (all good quality, just not named so wont fetch much) directly to the children that need them? I have looked online and have so far only seen projects in the US.

Any help/ideas/info appriciated
I am from the UK. And by ‘projects in the US’ I mean people dispatching goods from the usa. Not projects that I dont want to help.

I’m wondering what degree would allow me to help small villages in developing countries.

What I would like to be able to visit a third world country and improve the lives of local villages. I want to be able to design and build hospitals, schools, power plants, residential houses, roads, basically anything that can help improve lives.

I don’t expect to be able to do all this myself, but with so many options, I don’t know where to start. I just want to be able to say I made a difference. To be able to point at a building and say that I made it happen. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I would love to get involved in helping third world countries, and think it would be awesome to take a year or two off before I go to college to do so. I am not sure if there are any programs I can get into, or what the requirements are.. I am only seventeen but will be graduating from highschool this year. Any information regarding this topic will be of great help. Thanks for your time.

Just an FYI, I like animals. I think they should be treated fairly, although maybe not to the extent PETA would like. But I do not condone animal cruelty. On that same note, first world countries treat animals like royalty at times. There are plenty of pet owners who treat pets like they are their own children and would spend easily 50+ bucks just so they’re dog could get a pampered bath and groom. Meanwhile, a starving third world child may struggles to get even a few cents worth of food with any nutritional value.

I’m 16 years old and my friend was telling me how she was going to kenya to help out and stuff through a program. I looked into the program and they are full for this summer. Does anyone have any idea what some good opportunities would be for me to go to a third world country and help out?

I would like to start an online business. I live in a third world Country and am looking for an online business that already exists in the west but has not been properly exploited in the a third world country. It should be low cost and involve a service preferably, not hard goods.
I would really appreciate any answers and links to where i can get online business ideas.
Thanks.

With all the illegal immigration and decline seen in the USA over the past 7 years, do you think that they will be a Third World country soon? The UK is already halfway there too. Are the Chinese destined to take over after the US becomes weaker?

I was watching a tv show about poverty, and the program had a misleading title of How to change lives or something to that extent.
A few minutes into the show, I realized that although charity helped third world countries, it only did so on an individual basis, and it’s effect was minimal.
In order to actually save people in poverty, what must be done on a economic infrastructure level?

Industrialization has existed for over a century now, yet many countries in the world are still third and undeveloped. How much more time will pass until the entire world is modern and fully developed?

I don’t feel humanity can progress until this problem is solved.