Honestly, I think exposure to a country in which the population lacks rights that most Western populations enjoy has a value of its own. It makes it much harder to take those rights for granted.
Why stop there? Why not go to a place that also lacks basic infrastructure?
I do agree that most of the people I've met would do well to actually go see the absolute hopelessness that much of the world lives in. To meet people whose entire existence will consist of scraping by in the mud until they die from some minor injury or trivially curable disease. That the "cute" things they do, like carrying water in a jug on their head miles, is because they have no other choice. That preserving their "culture" means forcing women to repeatedly get pregnant, despite an abysmal survival rate. That they see enough children die, to the point where they delay naming their child so as to not get too attached to soon.
But exposure is different than living in such a place. While I want my daughters to realise the shitty reality of nature, I don't want them to have to experience it too closely.
I do agree that most of the people I've met would do well to actually go see the absolute hopelessness that much of the world lives in. To meet people whose entire existence will consist of scraping by in the mud until they die from some minor injury or trivially curable disease. That the "cute" things they do, like carrying water in a jug on their head miles, is because they have no other choice. That preserving their "culture" means forcing women to repeatedly get pregnant, despite an abysmal survival rate. That they see enough children die, to the point where they delay naming their child so as to not get too attached to soon.
But exposure is different than living in such a place. While I want my daughters to realise the shitty reality of nature, I don't want them to have to experience it too closely.