Quote Originally Posted by Cloud No.9
no, we can no longer sit on our hands here. in 20 years the average family income has dropped from 810 to 650 dollars. 46.4% of the population survives on a dollar a day. 1 in 3 people in africa do not have access to safe drinking water. 1 in 12 is HIV infected. maternity beds have quartered in africa in 20 years. 3 billion people exist in poverty. africa has claims only 2% of global trade. 43 million children receive absolutley no education at all.
What this says to me is that the charity drives of the 80s have entirely failed.

Africa needs an ideological change, and a big one. Nobody wants to see people starving and children dying, but when the aid goes to dictators and gangs who buy more guns for their rape squads, it's hard to believe that charity has been having a good effect.