Don't build a school. Invest in people.

Check out this post over at Lessons I Learned.  It's very interesting.

The author claims that we need to invest more in people than in buildings.  She raises some great points.

We can all feel good about ourselves when we do something highly visible like a school and emblazon our names on the side of it.  But you don't get that same sort of buzz when a child gradually learns her alphabet.  We can't tattoo "Sponsored by Mary Jones" on her forehead.

The challenge for Meaningful Volunteer is to focus on our prime goal of increasing child literacy once our school has been built.  As our census showed, practically no child under the age of 9 could read a single letter.

What do you think? Is the question as simple as people or buildings?