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Ghana's Farmers Undercut by Love
What does it really mean that our lives are "arising" out of source in each moment and that the manifest world is actually timeless and perfect? Some say that no interest arises in this being (slang for me) for investigating people and their experience of personal or community problems. Aren't we missing something here?
If you have 3 minutes now, you could know that your government's policy and your desire to offer charity are not working totally for the good of those on the receiving end. Without your participation the same old "arising" goes on. With your participation, well I'll be darned, arising takes a turn too.
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Funny how things sometimes can arise in an opposite direction.
I don`t know much about Ghana but actually last year we got a new mayor in our community and he is from Ghana. He is not even born in this totally homogeneuos white country but has worked here for many years as a physician (and still does) and he is so good that everybody wants him as their doctor (our family did too). So last year he was elected mayor since people wanted a change to the better for the community and believed that he could do it.
One can check him out on Google - Peter Bossman, the first black mayor in Eastern Europe (I don`t know if there are any other in the Western Europe?), Slovenia`s Obama or Piran`s Obama is he also called.
I don`t know if he will be able to realize his program,I hope so, but in politics one has to be a die-hard. For each time I watch Obama I notice how his hair is getting more and more grey:-(.
For me it´s not clear whether US-rice is a corporation or a charity undertaking. I understand that some corporations play a role in ´dumping´ food. I don't know how this works exactly.
But I agree that when it comes to charity we have to make sure that we don´t spoil the internal market of developing countries. It´s a good development that there is a growing attention to the precise effects of the different types of ´help´ that are being offered.
Of course it´s a good thing that when people are literally starving that we give them food directly, but in all the other cases it´s better to invest in schooling. Sometimes there are also projects in which westerners build houses in developing countries while the locals sit and watch.It´s done with the best intentions, but this is not helping people.
Perhaps less is even more, when help is being given in a conscious way. Quality in stead of quantity. Of course I have some ideas, but I´m far from a specialist in this field.