charity begins at home
Never too quick in the irony department, Habitat For Humanity have opened the
Global Village and Discovery Center in suburban Atlanta. This new theme park--where the theme is poverty--allows Americans to visit the third world
en route from Target to Home Depot. You can visit a range of different nations in the "Living in Poverty" exhibit; when finished, visitors may also "participate in brick and tile making as well as other fun activities."
Particularly alarming is the overhead "orientation map," where we see an idyllic Disneyworld landscape, where the African shanties are conveniently close to the South American ones, while still bounded by polite rows of connifers and an attractively blue stream (although the latter may well host a "River-Blindness Discovery Center" or some such thing; I don't know).
I have to admit a personal axe to grind, here, though... I hate Habitat, for this general lack of awareness--not to mention their concealed religious agenda. I once walked off an HFH job site, after learning that the would-be recipient of the new house (and her young children) had been rendered ineligible because she was not married to her husband. Apparently, "immorality" doesn't deserve charity. Errrr.
* joshua, 9/14/2003 02:41:29 AM
