I'm reminded of a story from a friend of mine who worked in the Peace Corps. Her village --where she was stationed for two years giving medical treatments, teaching classes, and running a women's clinic-- had a well that an earlier Peace Corps group had dug. But it kept getting clogged. It had been dug and re-dug three times. No one had bothered to train any of the villagers in how to maintain the well, so over time it had simply clogged up with sediment to the point of not even functioning.
The "help" that we sometimes give to poorer nations is often tarnished by the fact that we make no long-term investment in their infrastructure. We give them food for physical survival without educating them for economic survival. We build schools but don't train their people to teach in them. Our help needs to be better directed in this region of the world.
The "help" that we sometimes give to poorer nations is often tarnished by the fact that we make no long-term investment in their infrastructure. We give them food for physical survival without educating them for economic survival. We build schools but don't train their people to teach in them. Our help needs to be better directed in this region of the world.