My dear friend Nordam,
I have the pleasant opportunity to meet Jeppe Bruus Christensen
he is Danish youth activest.He is a member of the Danish Delegation to
Un general assembly 2000.
Iam wondering if you are still on he is interested to meet with folks like
you.
                                    kalilu


>From: kalilu camara <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Re: attn Mr.Nordam,              Kalilu Camara ON    POVERTY
>REDUCTION      MEANS
>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:04:31 GMT
>
>My dear Friend Mr.Nordam,
>
>Its nagative to give money to someone who doesnt have either the expertise
>or heart to use it, especially if the the resource is meant for a public
>benefit.The resource may even be used to harm the very people it was meant
>to help in the first place. I think this is the dilema for our friends in
>the West of good will,such as yourself Mr Nordam.The reasons why Africa is
>in debt by the billions include, in a great proportion, her leaders
>inablity
>to use properly the loans gathered in the name of the majority. The west is
>begining to sense this in a more intimate way now that the barriers of lies
>that have existed are being broken by information technology.
>    I called the White House for lack of knowledge as to where to direct my
>suggestions. My suggestion to President Clinton is to make every effort to
>accompany the debt relief package with instruments to
>make sure that the benefits accrued as a result are felt directly by the
>genaral public in the given countries.
>     One such workable suggestion is to despise the benefits by independent
>experts chosen by the North,(the countries forgiving the loans)
>      By this i mean to leave the African countries pay the dept as
>scheduled and use the monies to build schools and hospitals and Agric
>cultural infrastructure and machinery.
>      Iam not very certain of the numbers but I think Africania is paying
>more to debt payments a month than she is spending on education health and
>Agricultural development in the Whole year! This is typical!!She will take
>forever to recover given the math.
>      Imagin if the regular payment schedule is reversed! By this i mean
>using the payment that she makes a month to address her most urgent needs.
>Her recovery rate will increase by a factor of 12 plus whatever rate she is
>maintained at now! This is wonderful! It is possible and
>within reach for her People.
>      The problem is that unless the payment monies are collected
>and used by a different system of development the monies will more likely
>than not be used to dwarf her growth at a rate of a factor of 12!
>This is not meant to be taken lightly imagin if she decide to buy better
>guns for her "national security", instead of using the money for the right
>uses.(Iam not saying this to down Zimbabwe by any means!)
>       If the West hire their own experts and do the proper research with
>the money collected only then is this possible.History and past
>records exist to back me up! Mr.Norman there is a profound African
>proverb that address our present condition: Water does not pass a hole on
>the floor on its course across it! Our floors are porous like no where
>else!
>Our desires for comfort far surpass our wildest means!
>      I hope i make the sense i so honestly wish to convey,that Africa
>needs more than monetary assistance she needs more so Foreign knowhow
>and involement to sothe her economic nightmare.
>       We have ultraproud African leaders who know they have to beg for the
>highest interest loans but will not let foreign expertise in on their
>national undertakings. They want to be free from Western influence
>in the name of national Sovereignty even if their neighbours kids starve to
>death on their corridors asking for food in exchange for slavery in their
>households! Meanwhile they prosper almost to the point of rediculouness
>with
>the free money cashed in the form of national loans.They buy Private Planes
>and build mansons spend money like it rain from the skys.They will not have
>to payback, that is for the future to worry about! This kind of approach to
>public property
>is very African. This kind of inflated illusioned sense of national
>sovereignity is in itself a brain child of the struggle to
>selfdetermine,but
>what is missing in that struggle today is the ability to  involve using the
>proven methods that worked for other nations in the West. It is a double
>edge sword,on one hand we want to preserve our
>national hard earned independence on the other hand we need foreign
>assistance to stay alive in hungry global economic war machinery.
>    We need friends like you,not on on the fields but in the parliament
>if not as major decision makers but respected councilors of some value.
>     Thank you for your kind and continues participation in our national
>struggle to free.
>               sincerely your friend kalilu camara
>
>
>
>
>>From: Asbjørn Nordam <[log in to unmask]>
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>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>Subject: Re: Attn: Sidi Sanneh,              Ms. Hernlund Re: Africa: G7
>>on
>>Poverty Reduction
>>Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 08:42:26 +0200
>>
>>I read in a danish newspaper Politiken sunday, that the G8 has agreed on
>>Benin, Bolivia, Burkino Faso, Honduras, Mauretania, Mozambique, Senegal,
>>Uganda and Tanzania could get the dept reduced with 15 billion $ and 11
>>other countries before the end of the year would also fulfill the
>>conditions
>>to get the dept reduced.
>>Most of the comments in danish newspapers are like, "this is nothing, not
>>enough",  and will not help the contries so much.
>>Asbjørn Nordam
>>
>>
>>  DKr.  and on 25/07/00 14:50, Ylva Hernlund at [log in to unmask]
>>wrote:
>>
>> > Greetings,
>> > These are very good questions.  Hopefully someone on the list has the
>> > expertise to answer them. best, Ylva Hernlund
>> >
>> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Ousainou Ngum wrote:
>> >
>> >> Ms. Hernlund, Sidi Sanneh and others:
>> >>
>> >> Thanks a lot for your continued efforts at brightening our perspctives
>> >> on a wide range of issues affecting Africa and The Gambia especially.
>> >>
>> >> My questions on this interesting subject are; where does The Gambia
>> >> stand? What the chances are, that we can qualify for this debt relief?
>>Your
>> >> answers and insights will be highly appreciated.
>> >>
>> >> Ousainou Ngum.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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