Is it any wonder that the banks who would be funding any future investment in Africa are asking for a great deal of control over where the money actually goes? Of course in doing so they are then accused of trying to introduce colonialism by the back door.
So I avoided Live8 on the grounds that it will not make a slight bit of difference. The G8 leaders are all having a tough time at home, so they are concentrating everyone's view on somewhere that is worse. They make grandiose statements involving impressive amounts of money that don't actually add up to a hill of beans in the real world knowing that it will deflect what little passing attention from the truth that they don't actually want to change anything that matters.
For me I will continue to do what I have have done for the past 10 years or so, sponser a child with monthly payments that are invested in local projects, ensuring that he (as it is currently) get his shots, and education and fresh water for his village. It isn't a big gesture and I make no pretence that it is any sort of sacrifice on my part, but I genuinely believe that it does some good. If anyone wants to know how to do this then please contact me privately.
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Part 2
Date: 2005-07-04 04:00 pm (UTC)So I avoided Live8 on the grounds that it will not make a slight bit of difference. The G8 leaders are all having a tough time at home, so they are concentrating everyone's view on somewhere that is worse. They make grandiose statements involving impressive amounts of money that don't actually add up to a hill of beans in the real world knowing that it will deflect what little passing attention from the truth that they don't actually want to change anything that matters.
For me I will continue to do what I have have done for the past 10 years or so, sponser a child with monthly payments that are invested in local projects, ensuring that he (as it is currently) get his shots, and education and fresh water for his village. It isn't a big gesture and I make no pretence that it is any sort of sacrifice on my part, but I genuinely believe that it does some good. If anyone wants to know how to do this then please contact me privately.