Don't know how serious you were with this response but it tickled me thanks.

I know BFL on their exchange programme count the purchase value of returned items against the new ones so I suppose whilst this continues (and people are upgrading rather than stopping mining) then it does equate to a donation of $1200.  So yes, maybe this is a fundamental flaw in the plan.
I don't know much about litecoin.  And to a certain extent it doesn't matter which cryptocurrency is used nor what it is valued at outside of a community using it providing it serves its purpose of providing an easy means of payment.  The fact that gpu mining for litecoin is a longer-term thing also means that there'll be some usable parts in all the e-waste currently landing in Africa.

But although as Hardcore-fs intimates mining hardware shouldn't be donated with any promise of riches the odds of Bitcoin disappearing entirely is in my opinion much less than that of litecoin  - and is diminishing by the day so is more likely, if a practical way was found of bringing this about, that the additional benefits of having an increasingly internationally accepted value can play its role in protecting users against local-currency inflation and can be of value for exporting services too (such as paying someone to generate the electricity for my own mining operations    )