Over Fall Break Documentary

Over Fall Break, on October 15th, I watched a video called “Poverty, Incorporated”. The video demonstrated different challenges from current charities and how one can promote alternative solutions to the world in an effective way. While watching the documentary of the film made viewers think of some insight on how one can help or hurt poverty through charities or companies. Throughout the film it discusses several ideas of how poverty can be used essentially for money. This means that one can try to give viewers a view of what actually happens to when people donate to charities or NGO’s (non-governmental organizations). Many people do not really know where the money is being spent. For all they know is that they think they are helping areas that are in need of money. One of the examples the film talks about is the “overabundance of rice in Haiti”. It goes into details about how the value of rice in this area is next to nothing due to the fact …show more content…
Many believe that documentaries are slow and not as interesting as others are. In my opinion, I believe that this particular documentary was completely different because how it presented itself. I enjoyed that the film was informative and how the film tried to make an effort to provide some solution towards poverty in given areas, and establish multiple ways to help one contribute to what the film was trying to accomplish in 90 minutes. In my opinion, I believe that “Poverty, Incorporated” demonstrated the importance of poverty when it comes to different charity organizations. Unfortunately, towards the beginning of the film Miller talked little about how local work-people were unable to sell particular goods which eventually driven those people out of business and become crippled. As watching, I believe that the film was an eye opener for people to realize the importance of poverty in other countries, and how one can feel disappointed or depressed when people are