Dear BONO My question: What stands in the road of a better future for semiarid Africans?
The glass is certainly more than half full, but if we are going to keep the momentum going ---lets be realistics the glass does have some leaks .
What stands in the road of the future? Sometimes the audience themselves. That means aid agencies and the media don’t even know what they do wrong . I know many many caring people in the system who do not know or see the dangers of misplaced interest in the rural poor in particular. Its their particular economic and environmental homes we should know about ---to care about
Guilt, tokenism , projection, empire building, wannabe well known and racism infiltrate what should be a professional and team effort to tackle something which you rightly and wonderfully say is “Africa----- up to us !” Please do not encourage the Political correct , but the increasingly absent medium of expertise on environmental planning – despite appearances there is a lot of quick fix force talk in the agencies talk --that will hurt real people on the ground .
POINT : poorer countries need professional planning advocates who care closely – EVEN more than they need money
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