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Can travellers transform a beggar’s life with a generous gift?

  • Written by Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney
imageGive small amounts as you pass by makes you feel good but is rarely enough to make any significant or lasting difference.Dmitry Kalinovsky/Shutterstock

Travelling almost always involves confronting experiences with abject poverty. As you step out of the pampered cocoons of hotels, restaurants and airline cabins and see destitute people sleeping on...

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