I know you mean well, and I agree, but it sounds... condescending somehow. "We" don't need to raise the standard of living in the third world for them - that's reaching back to imperialism. We want them to do it themselves - even if we don't agree how that turns out for us. Based on what I've heard from expats living there, at least in countries in the horn of Africa, humanitarian aid from the west is a politically exploited tool, and one that by enlarging the "pity factor" during a crisis stymies the motivation to independent development. Europe and the rest of the western world are their heart machine which kicks in action whenever the next best crisis looms - and it comes for free. Countries practically count on the hand that feeds.

The current drought in eastern Africa is different, but only a little.