A while ago I was listening to a Christian radio station and they were having some big fundraiser that was something like “give $100 and buy a well for fresh water for an African village.”
They had people on telling stories of how great it was that $100 could buy a well for a whole African village, so that the villagers could finally have clean water and how that would improve their health and so on.
So I’m sitting there and it hits me: PEOPLE. This is the 21st century. Trillions and trillions, gazzilions and gazzilions of dollars of aid have been poured into Africa, and you’re telling me that (1) there are still thousands of villages that don’t have ONE WELL FOR DRINKING WATER, and further that (2) for just $100 a village this pressing problem could have been solved yesterday, last week, last century — the day before the trillions and trillions of dollars in aid were poured into there. What are we thinking? What are the AFRICANS thinking?
You are very right. I do not see this changing.
I was there in Tanzania...in some areas the women would spend a good part of their day walking to get the water and bring it back to the village. They seem to just accept this without question.
We could drive for many miles, see huts scattered here and there, but no water source.
I’m thinking we got ripped off. Our church wanted $200 for a well.
“A while ago I was listening to a Christian radio station and they were having some big fundraiser that was something like “give $100 and buy a well for fresh water for an African village.””
I remember those ads going way, way back. I guess the business model works!!
Same goes for emotional TV preachers. Remember dark tears running down the face of Tammy Faye Bakker?
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I hate to say it but “charities” get off on ENSLAVING countries like Africa to their organization just as government does. When you have a government or a “charity” ALWAYS DOING FOR YOU and GIVING YOU things, what is the INCENTIVE to DO FOR YOURSELF?
It’s not there. Helping them get started is fine but whether it be a “Christian charity” or the government, they more often than not, don’t STOP enslaving them. Each, the government and the “charity” like the power and control they have over those enslaved to them. It is a situation of a charity going HUMANISTIC even though they claim to be “Christian”. There must be a line where each backs off and lets the people DO for themselves.
There is NO REASON in the world why Africa can’t be a prosperous nation. It’s these “social do gooders” that prevent that from happening. They have the ELITE LIBERAL MINDSET that assumes these people can NEVER function without them. Of course, people respond to that too!