Carry on up the NGO

NGO awareness and education programmes assume overcoming ignorance is the key to poverty reduction and improving people's lives. Shot in Ghana, Godbless, Wofa, Deroy and local fishermen and women are not ignorant, they are articulate and angry. They loathe the peanuts offered and sanctimonious lessons in good behaviour. They want jobs and material advancement and for NGOs and aid agencies to stop treating them like children.

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News & Politics

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• Africa
• Ghana
• G8
• Live8
• Debt
• relief
• development
• aid
• NGO
• worldwrite
• third
• world
• economic
• growth
• AIDS
• family
• planning
• homes

[richmondqueen]

They do have brilliant and big ideas and i pray that their ideas are taken and used. it will make such a difference. people don't realise how amazing Afica is and the difference listeninig to their ideas would make.

[neothomist1275]

They lend out a bookkeeping entry called credit. Its all just a game: "Debt forgiven, debt forgiven!". What do they care? The IMF is still holding American birth certificates as chattel collateral against it.

[lehon01]

Being in touch with the real people. This film has changed my perception of G8, and the way they handle the African situation. Well done.

[sadsme]

Brilliant film! This should be a grounbreaking film in challenging the mainstream notion that the west knows best. I hope the film motivates people to support economic growth rather than counselling sessions for Africa!

[lehon01]

the film is worth watcing and also the video is ko

[WillyWunder]

PART4:

Useless! there are hundreds of them. Development aid makes the people dependent!

This "you are the poor, crying, dependent victims - we are the good samatarians" has to end!!!

[WillyWunder]

PART3:

I've been working and talking with NGO people. I saw those "White Elephants"-projects standing around. Not all of them do it that way - some are supporting private business. But that's the exception. I heard an comment from an NGO-administrative: "If you want to be supported with money for your enterprise - forget it. Thats too complicated and takes too much time. If you build a "Womens Group" you get money faster."

[WillyWunder]

PART2:

Its just getting high salaries for driving through the so called "bush", talking to some elders and writing reports!

There is coverage of the staging of hunger and starvation in ethiopia by the NGOs and the regime of Meles Zenawi.

[WillyWunder]

PART1:

Thank you!!! Great! That is what people should notice! Especially the demonstration tourists in western countries! It makes me sick to listen all the stories of this "NGO-self help". Most of them are like taht. It has been growing since the start of the development aid. Why should this industry have an intrest to make the situation better?

[lehon01]

it shows the type of work going on