Most countries, if managed with poverty relief as the priority, can afford to feed and house their all citizens.
Before financial aid or loans are given to any country an audit should be done on government spending, financial sharing and other finance generating operations.
Why are finances being trapped within the spending reach of a few citizens while the majority starves, in so many developing countries? The answer is greed, power hunger, war or poor finance management.
Governments should put the need of the majority first and foremost, only then should they feed their greed and hunger for power. If they miss out on a few overseas trips, – so what? They can utilize video conferencing technology if need be.
A debate or conference on how to govern holistically should precede any financial aid initiative. The days of just transferring money for charity from one bank account to another without any controls or supervision should be long gone. We know that most of it goes into wages, talks and discussions, planning and expensive business trips while very little is spent on the implementation of the project.
Using some of the donated funds to employ an auditor and overseer will have a more positive effect on the poverty relief effort. Some developing countries may need training towards financial maturity.
Is it fair of any country that spend trillions on the comforts of the leaders, or on buying weapons of war, to expect financial aid from developed nations?
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Money for poverty
If money is one of the most important things needed today for charity work, what is the factor which is at present deflecting it away from making poverty history?
These words were compiled from ideas expressed in the redemptive meditation from the website: : www.lucistrust.org
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Sunday, July 22, 2007
BEE - Blind economic Empowerment
Blind Economic Empowerment - BEE
The racial economic empowerment strategies are being stepped up in South Africa again. It beats me how people can justify laws that cripple the economy. Both the black empowered and the white suppressed see empowerment from different angles. As it has been said: "the argument is whether the stripes on the Zebra is white or black". However I am sure that if one looks closely at the whole zebra one will discover its basic color and that of the stripes. Both belongs to the same zebra
From where I "kyk die kat van die boom uit" I just see that every month someone I know leaves the country. Most of them are highly educated, qualified rich and skilled successful managers or company owners. Their expertise will be lost for South Africa but will widen the gap between first and third world economies. Many of them built their companies up from scratch. Some were involved with charity ventures. All employed people of all races and they also employed domestic workers and gardeners. Their workers and colleges may have became unemployed when their businesses changed hands or closed down. Their places got filled by less skilled workers or skilled workers and managers who could have filled other posts or started their own or other companies to fill the growing unemployment gaps.
To convince me that this trend does not harm the economy I will need to see statistics to prove it. Not the "duim gesuigde" statistics but real ones.
There are more black people in Africa so if economic empowerment was employed to the children born in freedom seventeen years ago, we would today been faced with a majority of black highly well educated children waiting to enter university and in a very short time the economic imbalances would have been something of the past. Instead we sit with a massive skills and jobs shortage. Starving people are pouring over the borders looking for more jobs and politicians who still try to saddle the sick striped economic zebra. Poor people still do not have money to pay for first class education for their children.
In 1990 when I worked in a maternity hospital the race of babies born (at least that year) were left from the birth certificates. Intermarriage were no longer frowned upon. Within a very short time these children will be entering the job market. Will the government be using Natzi statistics to determine who qualify for empowerment then?
Forget empowerment laws. Concentrate on new jobs for the surplus black skilled people who are ready to contribute to the economy. This cake is big enough to share.
The racial economic empowerment strategies are being stepped up in South Africa again. It beats me how people can justify laws that cripple the economy. Both the black empowered and the white suppressed see empowerment from different angles. As it has been said: "the argument is whether the stripes on the Zebra is white or black". However I am sure that if one looks closely at the whole zebra one will discover its basic color and that of the stripes. Both belongs to the same zebra
From where I "kyk die kat van die boom uit" I just see that every month someone I know leaves the country. Most of them are highly educated, qualified rich and skilled successful managers or company owners. Their expertise will be lost for South Africa but will widen the gap between first and third world economies. Many of them built their companies up from scratch. Some were involved with charity ventures. All employed people of all races and they also employed domestic workers and gardeners. Their workers and colleges may have became unemployed when their businesses changed hands or closed down. Their places got filled by less skilled workers or skilled workers and managers who could have filled other posts or started their own or other companies to fill the growing unemployment gaps.
To convince me that this trend does not harm the economy I will need to see statistics to prove it. Not the "duim gesuigde" statistics but real ones.
There are more black people in Africa so if economic empowerment was employed to the children born in freedom seventeen years ago, we would today been faced with a majority of black highly well educated children waiting to enter university and in a very short time the economic imbalances would have been something of the past. Instead we sit with a massive skills and jobs shortage. Starving people are pouring over the borders looking for more jobs and politicians who still try to saddle the sick striped economic zebra. Poor people still do not have money to pay for first class education for their children.
In 1990 when I worked in a maternity hospital the race of babies born (at least that year) were left from the birth certificates. Intermarriage were no longer frowned upon. Within a very short time these children will be entering the job market. Will the government be using Natzi statistics to determine who qualify for empowerment then?
Forget empowerment laws. Concentrate on new jobs for the surplus black skilled people who are ready to contribute to the economy. This cake is big enough to share.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
WORLD GREED 28-6-2007
28-6-2007
WORLD GREED
One can say that greed is one of the most destructive forces in the world today.
There is enough money to ensure a comfortable living for every sentient being on the planet.
With so much money pouring into Africa all Africans should have the knowledge and tools to have a self-sustainable living.
The elements that paralyze the efforts of first world countries to have the desired "make poverty history' effect in Africa are among other:
WORLD GREED
One can say that greed is one of the most destructive forces in the world today.
There is enough money to ensure a comfortable living for every sentient being on the planet.
With so much money pouring into Africa all Africans should have the knowledge and tools to have a self-sustainable living.
The elements that paralyze the efforts of first world countries to have the desired "make poverty history' effect in Africa are among other:
- The Red tape of outdated rules and laws prevent proper distribution of funds and investment opportunities in Africa.
- Unskilled or immature or greedy decision makers.
- Corruption and violence.
- War and anarchy.
- There is unwillingness among people in power to take responsibility of their own actions.
- There is a tendency to blame and punish past injustices instead utilizing current resources to create solutions for the future.
- We have many poor role models among teachers, politicians and those in power.
- Too many Africans are in "victim mode".
- A tendency to widen the gap between the higher and lower classes because of the greed of those in control of financial distribution and the population at large.
- Another problem is the crime that is out of hand, criminal injustice and a poor social structure.
- Drugs and drug abuse destroys the lives of too many Africans
- A tendency of African leaders to be global beggars and expects from the first world standards that they are unable to implement in their own countries.
- Military rule.
- Etc. Etc.
Money alone will not permanently alleviate poverty.
Education and healing at all levels of the African society will be needed as well as positive role models from first world countries.
Africans need to learn to be accountable for their promises. The money donors should insist on that. Leaders should mirror their expectations. They are not only there to make fancy speeches while globe trotting
Shortcomings that are recognized openly in Africa are often active behind the scenes in the first world.
Where Africans may be master beggars and victims; First world leaders may be master manipulators and deceivers.
Education and healing at all levels of the African society will be needed as well as positive role models from first world countries.
Africans need to learn to be accountable for their promises. The money donors should insist on that. Leaders should mirror their expectations. They are not only there to make fancy speeches while globe trotting
Shortcomings that are recognized openly in Africa are often active behind the scenes in the first world.
Where Africans may be master beggars and victims; First world leaders may be master manipulators and deceivers.
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
AFRICA : COLOR BLIND?
Some day the western world will recognise that the sins of Apartheid have only jumped to the other side of the chessboard
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Instead of complaining about the wrongs of past regimes, people should compare their way of living with that of people where there was little interference from outsiders.
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In the past wars among tribes and food supply kept the population at an equilibrium and man lived in harmony with nature but in fear of those in power. Only those who can live without their freedom of choice, universities, schools, hospitals railroads, modern technologies, air travel, cell phones, study and computers have the right to complain about the wrongs of the past.
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Yes, many wrongs caused much pain in African history.
The result of the slave trade, the drain of African commodities, the isolated European settlements, who cared only for their own kind, brought to Africa the infrastructure and tools of modern civilisation.
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Countries who absorb the skills and knowledge base of the ones who are the custodians of experience and funds will find it easier to enhance their economies
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One saw the breakdown in the economies of countries, that did not have the infrastructure or knowledge and funds to maintain their level of productivity, who prematurely broke the link with England.
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One sees that same breakdown of the economy when businesses close down because governmental interference makes the working environment unfriendly.
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So much of Africa's brain and financial resources are living outside the country because they are branded as foreigners of Africa (based on the colour of their skin)
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Uplifting the lives of all people in Africa, without outside help has never been done before. It is better for Africa to utilise skills that was home grown (even if they benefited by apartheid) than to import skilled foreigners who will leak the profits to enrich their own roots.
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Western sympathy and aid will dry up while the struggling and suppression continue. It is time for Africans to become colour blind and recognise the abilities and strengths in people instead of their cultural beliefs and the colour of their skins.
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For the first time in history, Africa has the means to dignify the lives of all her people.
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New unique strategies are needed and not by repeating the sins of the past.
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Beware of shrewd business people who give with one hand, while feeding their glut with the other.
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The power of Africa is not her gold or ivory, but her natural resources. This is the last continent where the big five can roam freely. - but not for long.
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Africans are the custodians of the "Garden of Eden, .... but at this rate, not for long.
Ex Unitate Vires.
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Instead of complaining about the wrongs of past regimes, people should compare their way of living with that of people where there was little interference from outsiders.
----------------------
In the past wars among tribes and food supply kept the population at an equilibrium and man lived in harmony with nature but in fear of those in power. Only those who can live without their freedom of choice, universities, schools, hospitals railroads, modern technologies, air travel, cell phones, study and computers have the right to complain about the wrongs of the past.
-----------------------
Yes, many wrongs caused much pain in African history.
The result of the slave trade, the drain of African commodities, the isolated European settlements, who cared only for their own kind, brought to Africa the infrastructure and tools of modern civilisation.
-------------------
Countries who absorb the skills and knowledge base of the ones who are the custodians of experience and funds will find it easier to enhance their economies
---------------------
One saw the breakdown in the economies of countries, that did not have the infrastructure or knowledge and funds to maintain their level of productivity, who prematurely broke the link with England.
---------------------------
One sees that same breakdown of the economy when businesses close down because governmental interference makes the working environment unfriendly.
--------------------
So much of Africa's brain and financial resources are living outside the country because they are branded as foreigners of Africa (based on the colour of their skin)
------------------------
Uplifting the lives of all people in Africa, without outside help has never been done before. It is better for Africa to utilise skills that was home grown (even if they benefited by apartheid) than to import skilled foreigners who will leak the profits to enrich their own roots.
------------------------
Western sympathy and aid will dry up while the struggling and suppression continue. It is time for Africans to become colour blind and recognise the abilities and strengths in people instead of their cultural beliefs and the colour of their skins.
-----------------------
For the first time in history, Africa has the means to dignify the lives of all her people.
-----------------
New unique strategies are needed and not by repeating the sins of the past.
--------------------
Beware of shrewd business people who give with one hand, while feeding their glut with the other.
-------------------
The power of Africa is not her gold or ivory, but her natural resources. This is the last continent where the big five can roam freely. - but not for long.
-------------------------
Africans are the custodians of the "Garden of Eden, .... but at this rate, not for long.
Ex Unitate Vires.
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