Do you know this? 30% of children do not have access to safe water. 60% of children live more than a 30 minutes trip from the nearest water source. Only 4 in every 50 households have a hand washing facility with soap and water. 8% of mothers of under 5 year old children have soap and water readily available for hand washing. AND my personal favorite; 3 out of 10 households don’t have a latrine. As 30 people out of 100 have nowhere to deposit their waste products, as 300 people out of 1000, 3000 of 10,000, 30,000 of 100,000. Do you see my drift? As in you can meet…
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How NGOs help (can help) with Corruption – (what about the private sector)
Corruption is a widespread problem — from a major oil company using secret companies to bribe politicians in Brazil, to small and medium-sized enterprises paying off local officials to expedite business procedures in Uganda. This iniquity is all around us and many a times we never notice it; and if we do we ignore it because it has become a culture of some sorts. A behavior we have adapted to and accepted in our society. It is no longer evil to bribe a good school to let your low grade child in or even for a doctor to ask you if you have extra cash on you before you receive treatment…
