name it short-term missionaries from what i've seen don't really address this therefore whatever help that's provided is just a band-aid solution and it isn't going to actually change anything nor will it incentivize the government to change so long as missionaries keep filling the gaps that they don't anti-corruption work is more important in the long-term building than homes because it truly helps these countries begin to rebuild when short-term missionaries that may not understand the culture of a country come in build school and leave in a way they're enabling the corrupt system that won't help their own people i rarely see this talked about and it isn't even discussed among many of my sources but this is one of the largest reasons why i believe that if someone is going to help again faith-based or not then long-term missionaries willing to come immersed in the culture and work alongside local government is what's really needed the most again there isn't a ton of research out there but the research and papers that i have found do agree that many missionaries have created these dependencies rather than a collaborative relationship although we've talked about how stms don't seem to have many benefits let's talk about the genuine harm that can come from missionaries this next point specifically is going to apply to stmms or the short-term medical missions and there's just very little regulation there but before we get into that and taking a look at some of the true harm let's just take a quick moment to thank today's sponsor so today's episode is sponsored by me i'm just kind of waving a little banner here really quick to be like hey we can connect outside of these episodes and here's where you can type of thing if you go to my description box you'll see something called a link tree link and when you click on that it shows you links of all of my social media that i'm on and other projects and things that i'm up to did you know that i have a twitter and an instagram well on my link tree link you can follow me there did you know that i'm starting to get back into streaming on twitch well you can find my twitch link too and did you want to suggest topics for future episodes well if you go to my discord server which there's a link for you can leave suggestions there too and of course maybe you just need some ibleach and you need to watch my dog casper run around and having the best time of his life well there's a link for his channel as well so yeah that's my awkward promo i don't really know how to end this but um yeah okay let's go back to it now
START_SELFPROMO_TOKEN there but before we get into that and taking a look at some of the true harm let's just take a quick moment to thank today's sponsor so today's episode is sponsored by me i'm just kind of waving a little banner here really quick to be like hey we can connect outside of these episodes and here's where you can type of thing if you go to my description box you'll see something called a link tree link and when you click on that it shows you links of all of my social media that i'm on and other projects and things that i'm up to did you know that i have a twitter and an instagram well on my link tree link you can follow me there did you know that i'm starting to get back into streaming on twitch well you can find my twitch link too and did you want to suggest topics for future episodes well if you go to my discord server which there's a link for you can leave suggestions there too and of course maybe you just need some ibleach and you need to watch my dog casper run around and having the best time of his life well there's a link for his channel as well so yeah that's my awkward promo i don't really know how to end this but um yeah okay let's go back to it now END_SELFPROMO_TOKEN