Value of outreach and diversity to Debian

A question came up in private conversations, but the answer IMHO is useful generally, so this is a repost. The question was generally on the topic of divercity and outreach - if it does really help underpriviledged people to give them some handout and hope that that somehow turns them into priviledged people? IMHO this is an important question in current world environment in general and to Debian…