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You should come visit us in Africa. It will probably make you feel better. Some in Africa have become rich from NGO money meant for the poor. Working for an NG
by mmsimanga 7y ago
You should come visit us in Africa. It will probably make you feel better. Some in Africa have become rich from NGO money meant for the poor. Working for an NGO is now actually a profession. I always had in it mind NGOs should be temporary, provide relief during a natural disaster. Donors do try set strict rules on how the money can be spent but there is always a way to game the system. The participants of a workshop will stay at a connected individual's lodge and pay inflated prices. Cars used to ferry people at a charge and so on.
- cft 7y agoSame is for example is true for the city employees in San Francisco. They don't become rich, but they are essentially tenured, and there are more than 30,000 of them, in a city of less than a million. In the meantime, the city is in utter decay by Western standards, semi permanent homeless encampments, BART with its 1970 trains and infrastructure, permanent garbage on freeway shoulders, terrible road surfaces with no snow.
- buboard 7y agoi m seeing an opening for corruption-squashing technoloty, although i have no idea how it would work