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]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >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]> >>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list >><[log in to unmask]> >>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. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________________ >> >> Say Bye to Slow Internet! >> >> http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html >> >> >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >>Gambia-L >> >> Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >> >> >> >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > >> > To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the >>Gambia-L >> > Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >> > >> > >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >>Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L >Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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