Teaching someone to fish

The false dichotomy between relief and development

Mark Shrime, MD, PhD
3 min readOct 26, 2022

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This article first appeared in African Business.

You know that phrase, “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, you feed him for life”?

Yeah, I hate that phrase; it creates a false dichotomy.

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Mark Shrime, MD, PhD

Author, SOLVING FOR WHY | Global surgeon | Decision analyst | Climber | 3x American Ninja Warrior Competitor