If a Well Can Be Sunk to Provide Water on This Micro-Scale Why Cannot Governments Arrange This?

My attention has just been drawn to the photograph of a dear lady who is seventy years of age and she is visiting the unmarked grace of her granddaughter who are the age of eighteen died very suddenly of cholera having been at work the previous day. This is all taking place in a nation in southern Africa where life is increasingly hard and where to survive is a struggle.

This is where strong powerful able leadership is so needed, and there are such leaders available. It has been a privilege to have met some of these men and women. A man came up to me in Nairobi airport and showed me the trillion dollar note that had just been issued in Zimbabwe. I asked if he had a second one so that I could show my grandchildren. Suffering is epidemic in so many African countries as are many various serious diseases.

Why can the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund not do something now about the predicament in these various nations? These and other organisations send money which simply disappears because of bribery and corruption at the highest levels. I have seen what is happening in Kenya and have heard of how so much aid money and money for AIDS and HIV has just gone astray.

Do not send money to these countries, but send people and seed and school equipment and teachers and whatever else may be required in the ways of goods for building and farming, but do not send cash.

If pipes for drainage and sanitary systems could be bought or sent with skilled men who know what they are doing and how to do it what a massive difference a little could make. Local labour would be employed and the economy is various districts would suddenly improve, almost without trying and without any major changes in Government decisions.

Educating and training the local Kenyans would be so immensely beneficial. Families, health, infrastructure, living conditions as well as the environment would gradually see such positive changes, if only AID was sent to the proper places. Use the money to purchase what can be used profitably so that the AID can reach those most in need in the front line.

In Uganda and Kenya there are structures in place where there are trusted Christian men and women, who could do so much more to ease the plight and suffering of so many if only that cash would reach those who could be relied upon to use it responsibly. There are people working in Kampala and Nairobi and Kisumu and Mombasa who, if receiving help would use whatever they were given to service the community around them.

The leadership is there if only donor Governments would find out where the responsible leadership is! Send it to the Government Departments and it will disappear. Corruption and bribery and theft will see to that. How much longer will this appalling distribution of AID continue?

We were able finance the sinking and building of a well in western Kenya over the past few months. One man had a dream and there was water underground and now clear and clean water is available and no longer are over three hundred people walking four miles every day to fetch water. If this can be easily arranged on a micro-scale why cannot Governments do this fairly simple task?

Sandy Shaw