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i have very extreme mixed emotions about humanitarian aid serviced by the ideology that a click of a finger and the worlds woes will vanish...
i want people to get involved and work towards a solution but at the same time i sit back and snear with a churning feeling that somehow the reality of the plight that is the continent is lost on hollywood, celebrity and those who should have more sense...
this is where the dualism begins. i want them to realise what the fuck is actually happening outside of their gazillion star lifestyle but when this happens i actually want the reality of the situation to set in...

for a while now i have heard that the click of the finger is going to sort out world hunger, death from disease etc yet still the brevity of the situation escapes them...
clicking your fingers is not decreasing the amount of sqautter camps that line the highways, decreasing the death toll, nor putting food or books in front of her children. not that i want anyone not to help, everyone needs to get involved but then do that... africa needs skills development, ideas, creativity, an opening into the free market without all the strings attached, people to build her infrastructure both physically and intellectually...

if you continue to treat africa as the starving cousin, riddled with disease, unable to fend for herself well, the indoctrination is believed and perpetuated. africa doesnt need handouts... given it is perceived that all it takes is some cash which you throw at the problem and away it goes but out in the undeveloped world they need hard work and skills together with the bling to get things working. this will take just slightly more than hollywood simultaneously with the rest of the world clicking their proverbial finger...