> Sometimes it happens that if you donate clothes to some African communities, corruption will take over and your donation will not reach the hands of those in most need. The clothes will instead be sold into the illegal markets, profitting feudal lords.
I'm led to believe[1][2] outrageous profiteering starts well before such donated assets---which are sold in bales---ever reach the shores of Africa.
What privileged 1st world citizens naively perceive as altruism turns out to be nothing more than a facade for egregious textile dumping with middlemen in transit to squeeze out any remaining residual profit...and it's turtles all the way to the ad hoc environmental disasters this racket has created in already immensely impoverished countries.
[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-...