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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
The message is, that for the sake of a few million raised by charity every few years helping a few towns and people, the tourism industry in Africa is decimated, and few want to invest in African businesses or enterprises costing the continent billions, robbing them of the chance to properly grow their own economies.
I hope that people can start to get to grips with this. I know it's difficult to understand that raising charity money can end up having the opposite effect. But at least give it some thought.
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No that is not difficult to understand at all, and I don't know why you think it would be, if Africa can go it alone by all means feel free to go ahead, I don't see Liberia or Sierra Leone turning away the Army or the NHS staff or any other countries staff though, neither do I hear of more economically sound African countries stepping in to help, maybe if they were seen to be actually doing anything the charities might back off? To my mind this is about preventing this disease spreading to other counties and stopping it in its tracks, it has nothing to do with the African economy or lack of