Hi,

If you are in a position to help someone struggling back home, is it better to assistant with money from time to time to cover every day living nessicity or offer one off capital donation (E.g. 100,000) to start a business with for long term self sufficient. If business route, what would be a good profitable to advice the person to utilise the captain on. The business can be small scale to start with. fish or poultry farming seems like a good business or even washing people cloth for them. Any advice.

Any input

Buy stuff that can easily be sold and send to them to start selling e.g clothing, shoes etc. Let them place the next order from the proceeds. You can continue topping it up until they stabilize.

What i will advise you to do is that you ask them what they plan on doing. What makes sense to you may not make sense for the other person. And they might be passionate about what you are passionate about.

Then offer to LOAN them the money you want to send them. Let the know its a LOAN but in your mind you know its a gift.

With that, the person won't be coming in case they misuse the funds and your conscience will be clear if you don't do anything for them again.

Otherwise they will turn you into ATM coming back for more money until you cannot afford it.

Good luck

USAutoBuy:
What i will advise you to do is that you ask them what they plan on doing. What makes sense to you may not make sense for the other person. And they might be passionate about what you are passionate about.

Then offer to LOAN them the money you want to send them. Let the know its a LOAN but in your mind you know its a gift.

With that, the person won't be coming in case they misuse the funds and your conscience will be clear if you don't do anything for them again.

Otherwise they will turn you into ATM coming back for more money until you cannot afford it.

Good luck

your idea of making it seem like a loan to the person when really a gift is a good one cause the person would think they will pay the cash back and be more motivated.

1stCitizen:
Buy stuff that can easily be sold and send to them to start selling e.g clothing, shoes etc. Let them place the next order from the proceeds. You can continue topping it up until they stabilize.

Clothing seems like a good idea as now that naija eyes have open to western world where I am they want to wear western gear. But was there not a ban on importing clothing. When you said send cloth to the person do you mean brand new or second hand clothing.

How about if the person sell things like ice block/ pure water as naija is a hot country, find a supplier to them eggs to sall, sell of phone accessories.