Just going to sidestep a little back to my time in Thailand. I was living next to an extended family who were very much on the edge of survival and at a time when this village had not had other foreigners stay. By edge of survival i mean about 10 people sharing a garage sized building, harvesting what fruits or seeds they could from the jungle behind and if lucky making meals from tiny crabs or baby fish caught in the mangroves on the other side of the village. The family land which the house stood on, now owned by an unfriendly bank because of years of drawing on equity. Rice prices had gone up, so finding money to buy this was tricky.
i had built a small bamboo shack just a few metres away, my cooking was done outside. With no fridge and a constant temperature day and night of 30+ degrees, shopping for food at the village shop just up the road was a twice daily affair. But how could i buy what i needed to eat knowing that ten people next door had nothing. Buying and sharing seemed like a good idea, but then when the plan was to stay for a long time 1 person supporting 10 was not a sustainable idea - giving is just not sustainable.
i had to re-think.
in the next village someone was selling a small boat, just large enough and safe enough for 2 or 3 people to navigate out of the mangroves and into waters where there were bigger fish. The engine was dead but the price was good. so a shopping trip into Krabi for a new tiny outboard engine and the 'ingredients' to make drift nets and crab pots. the whole net thing was pretty boggling in itself, but that's a whole other story.
a couple of days later, boat moved, de-barnacled, re-juventated, re-stained we had all we needed for the teach a man to fish exercise. There were 3 mid teenage brothers, all doing nothing more than hanging around all day, so it was night fishing, all night fishing, day fishing, lines, nets, crabpots, in and out of the mangroves, carrying kit backwards and forwards on the motorbike, happy faces when there were big fish or fish enough to sell. I left for a trip back to the UK feeling confident that this family had the means to their own survival if not success.
Just over a month later i returned to find the boat laid up, the engine broken, nets and kit from the boat scattered around, the boys hanging around bored  and the same family economic situation that was there before. Why?
of course i did the typical western 'fix it' thing and gave everyone variations of the inspirational speech or the 'get your act together' speech and lots more practice at 'doing it'. Next trip away - same thing happened, but this time the boat had sunk and so there was major restoration work to do.and a very angry me. I sort of gave up after that.
Having been a teacher at one time in the UK, I was really bitterly disappointed that the first time i got to try out the 'teach a man to fish and you will feed him for life' thing, it had failed miserably. of course i blamed the people at first, told myself i had been unlucky; but its years later, lots more travel and behavioural science reading that has helped me try to understand why it failed.

Having the tools, the knowledge and even practising a skill does not mean its going to be successful - humans are complex, enabling change is complex.

Here's some of the reasons why i think it didn't work

• I assumed their goals were the same as mine for them
• fishing with me was probably a wholly different experience with snacks and fun
• the teenage boys were not responsible for putting food on the table before so why would they want to opt to take on this responsibility freely
• fishing was my solution to the food insecurity not theirs
• the boat was bought with my money, my earnings, so how would they appreciate its value

So ubuni, is about enabling learning, it is about giving really useful information but its more than that, its also about enabling change; that's the complicated bit, mind-set change, getting drive and motivation in place, inspiring a sense of ownership of self development and personal social change.

give a man a fish and he will survive for a day
teach a man to fish and he will feed himself for life (maybe)
empower him for change and he probably find new ways to feed the whole village

'teach a man to fish' doesn't work