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1 Comment
slums
Being scottish, accidentally living in dc, I dont have a good map of what the different US interests are in this UVDC perspective of the worldwide debate on extreme poverty
I remember being absolutely shocked about this time last year cos there was american idol promising to tell 30 million american youth at the same time stories they had never heard on african slums like kibera – 1 million people, 50000 orphans but then all the fundraising went to top down NGOs not any I could find that empowered community up in kbera or indeed any other major african slum. What doubly shocked me is there was no after debate of this. Does that mean in america there are no segments who network together on the side of we need to empower community up approaches if the poor in cities, in slums at the borders of cities or in villages are ever going to be given access to ways of ending poverty as well as all of us transforming the system failures that cities etc trap thwm in?
chris macrae http://africanidol.tv