Generally Speaking, it is Not the Poor Who Are Corrupt - Does This Not Embarrass the Leaders?

When someone we care for and love sets out to work and serve in Zimbabwe there is suddenly a renewed interest in that nation.

I know something of South Africa and Uganda and Kenya, having visited these countries, with visits to Uganda and Kenya over these last few years, but I have not had the privilege and pleasure of visiting Zimbabwe.

Reading about a country is never quite the same as being there and travelling around the cities and jungle areas and speaking with and to the people. Teaching at Pastors and Leaders Seminars and Conference and preaching in various churches on the Sundays has not only been a joy but a profound learning factor.

Progress can be excruciatingly slow in these African nations and not the fault of the people in many cases but the lack of resources provided by the Governments.

In Kenya, I know of leaders who are ready to do so much more to improve the environment and to improve the conditions of the people if only the Government would cease to waste the financial resources and make some of the cash available to trusted committed leadership. I think of those men I know in Mathare and Kariobangi in the northern slums of Nairobi. These men have structures in place if only they could finance that work they dream of doing.

There is capable leadership just awaiting to make further progress.

Having seen what they are presently accomplishing I do not know why Governmental authorities do call them in and ask them how central Government can help their work!

The world knows that these dear people are enduring sever hardship, but the world leaders so little about it. Why will Governmental leaders not do more? A little help immediately could accomplish so much that is practical and positive.

When I hear of two million people going hungry in one area I become angry, because, that should not be and ought not to be happening.

When I hear of people walking four miles a day to carry water when there is water underground in various areas, a very simple well can be sunk for around �1,000 or $1,500. Our people here have just financed one micro-project outside Kisumu in Kenya, and the work was done within four months of our hearing of the need and rather simple solution. God speaks about the mirage becoming a pool.

Having seen some of these girls walking to work early in the morning along these dangerous roads on the outskirts of Nairobi, and after it has rained they are walking in mud, and yet, somehow they manage to keep themselves so clean and neat and tidy.

Then, one Zimbabwean girl returns home after a hard day's work feeling unwell. Cholera strikes and within nine hours she is dead. Medical help is so sparse and so scarce.

We are called in Jesus Christ to reach out and minister to those in need and improve the environment and surrounding by whatever we find possible to do, and we are encouraged never to give up nor to grow weary.

The battle against poverty and corruption must continue. By the way, I have learned that generally speaking, it is not the poor who are corrupt.