Make Poverty History

[catmandoo]

Reoverty Is Relative

As a matter of interest we are directly funding a water pump supply for an African village as well trying to lobby the big guns at the G8.

Agree with you about Africans 95% are genuine people .

the age of selling tractors with expensive spares is gone replaced by schemes which allow them to be self sufficient and to make things with cheap materials available locally

 

[kingfisher]

In Iraq, they've removed the plague and installed cholera. So no, I don't think that we should reinstate Saddam, but neither do I think that the Iraqi people are better off.

Luckily we stopped all those weapons of mass destruction, though.

 

[Peppermint]

Reo look at Sue\'s site your on the same path.

They source everything they can in country.

Little things like building a wall can generate lots of economic benefits to material suppliers, hauliers, labourers and tradesmen.

But education is the thing. Fresh water collection was such a time consuming activity in some villages that women and children spent up to 40% of their time doing it. Put a well in and before you know it they're looking to learn new things or develop a new revenue stream for the village.

In the end though the saviour of Africa will be people not governments.