text: The call to "move beyond charity" is a call to focus on community development instead of welfare. This is actually a place where ideas on the left and right are in convergence these days. It includes a concern about dependence. Most Christians involved in social justice causes today that I know personally and read about want projects where, for example, women are trained and helped to get started in small businesses so that they can sustain themselves and their families, instead of government entitlements. Government is, in most nations, politically unstable, whereas if a person is enabled to successfully make a living, they are more free of such problems. For example, one project that I was involved with took donated used clothing from church members in the U.S. and gave a bale to each woman in an area in Uganda and helped her start selling clothing in the marketplace, including setting aside working capital to buy more inventory in due course. I wold think you would approve.