Africa appeals

[A500leroy]

£2 a month for water/food/veg crops/send the kids to school.

Weve been sending money over for well over 50 years so how come everyone hasnt at least got the basics yet? Does the money that gets sent over ever reach the people they are appealing for?

[mmm-five]

It's a big country, and they're always having more kids, and so need more water/sanitation all the time.

[Unknown_User]

mmm-five said:

It's a big country, and they're always having more kids, and so need more water/sanitation all the time.

Africa isn't a country.

[anonymous-user]

Unknown_User said:

Africa isn't a country.

Good thing you clarified for us - I wouldn't have known what he was getting at otherwise.

[andymc]

A500leroy said:

£2 a month for water/food/veg crops/send the kids to school.

Weve been sending money over for well over 50 years so how come everyone hasnt at least got the basics yet? Does the money that gets sent over ever reach the people they are appealing for?

Mercedes do quite well, each new dictator orders a fleet of S Class's

[Unknown_User]

ThatGuyWhoDoesStuff said:

Unknown_User said:

Africa isn't a country.

Good thing you clarified for us - I wouldn't have known what he was getting at otherwise.

Happy to help.

If mm-five doesn't know the difference between a country and a continent, then good luck understanding what he was getting at then...!!!!

[alorotom]

A500leroy said:

£2 a month for water/food/veg crops/send the kids to school.

Weve been sending money over for well over 50 years so how come everyone hasnt at least got the basics yet? Does the money that gets sent over ever reach the people they are appealing for?

Ive wondered about this too and the wife and I were talking about the other day when another fundraising advert was on for it all … it just seems like a massive deep hole that no amount of funding will resolve … combine comic relief, water aid, elements of children in need, Red Cross, WHO, medicines sans frontieres, and god knows how many other charities raising and pumping money, health, food, water, etc… in and there is still very minimal discernible difference to the outside world.

[A500leroy]

Somebodies laughing at us somewhere

[nikaiyo2]

Idk 10-15 years ago there was one of the many African crises.

You know where a country can’t feed its population so the BBC send a corespondent and we are urged to give money to help save these poor souls.

I won’t go into exact details but the presidents wife of the country in crisis and her sister flew into London on a private jet to go shopping.

[DAVEVO9]

I know someone who is so poor kids in Africa send him money!

[Monkeylegend]

Probably better to send them a pack of condoms.

[Rich1973]

Look at the population of Ethiopia between the 1980s and now. Will tell you all you need to know. There is only one way that it has happened..

[NMNeil]

mmm-five said:

It's a big country, and they're always having more kids, and so need more water/sanitation all the time.

And contraceptives to address the root cause of the problem.

[anonymous-user]

Rich1973 said:

Look at the population of Ethiopia between the 1980s and now. Will tell you all you need to know. There is only one way that it has happened..

The population of Ethiopia was 2m in 1900, though TBF, we ( the British Empire ) killed a lot in the 1800s.
At the moment it is about 115m.
Third world population growth is scarcely and far more serious than climate change .

[Mack42]

Cliffe60 said:

The population of Ethiopia was 2m in 1900, though TBF, we ( the British Empire ) killed a lot in the 1800s.
At the moment it is about 115m.
Third world population growth is scarcely and far more serious than climate change .

I suppose Oxfam have to take some responsibility for that what with some of their overseas workers having a taste for the native ladies.

[Chicken_Satay]

The fact that I can't get a GP appointment in under two weeks and NHS walk in centres have a wait time of at least three hours means that I won't be donating any money overseas until we get our own basic health services sorted out.

[LeadFarmer]

TV adverts see to be dominated by 'can you spare just £3 per month...'

Years ago there would just be adverts for RSPCA, WWF etc, but now there are adverts for obscure charities that seem to just pop up, then are never heard of again - spastic donkeys, foreign school girls etc.

I don't give to any.

[gtidriver]

I had a phone call from my sons teacher a few years back, the teacher had asked the pupils to go off and research poverty in different African countries, my son looked up info on Ethiopia, he was arguing with the teacher that the uk should stop sending money to countries where the government own the national airline.

[popegregory]

Chicken_Satay said:

The fact that I can't get a GP appointment in under two weeks and NHS walk in centres have a wait time of at least three hours means that I won't be donating any money overseas until we get our own basic health services sorted out.

This is a good point, those Sudanese or Eritreans might like to come and see the struggles we face before just assuming it’s all champagne and skittles over here

[daddy cool]

You'd think by now they'd have learnt to live closer to the water, so they don't have to do a daily hike of 10 miles carrying buckets of it...