I think that Carnegie believed that education was the best way to help people around the world. He gives so much money to support libraries and schools around the world because he believed that this solution would help the entire population in the long run because instead of just giving them money to improve their situation on hand, he taught them how to make and handle their own money that they can use to sustain themselves. He put so much effort into this cause and you can tell how passionate he is because he pretty much only donates to education funds and he doesn't really donate to anything else.
I think this is a good approach if there aren't such dire circumstances. Education will definitely help children in the US but I don't think it is necessarily the best approach for starving children in Africa since they won't need to know how to read or write if they can't eat and won't live much longer anyways. If I had an excess of money and had nothing else to do with it I think I would help children in orphanages because I know of stories where the children have PTSD just from living in the harsh conditions of orphanages in Russia and China especially.

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