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To: AppyPappy

In 1980-81 I spent 6+ months flying a helicopter in support of famine relief operations in the Karamoja region of NE Uganda. About 500 people were dying each week. Save the Children Fund had about 35 nurses & support personnel in the region running feeding centers - thatch shelters where corn meal (Posho) was boiled in huge kettles made form half of one of my empty jet fuel drums - washed out, of course.

There were many organizations working together in this effort - local churches from the Church of Uganda, the Catholic Church and various Protestant churches. Numerous Western relief organizations were involved - Save the Children, OXFAM, Christian Aid, GOAL, Medicine Sans Frontiers, World Vision, etc.

Save the Children paid for the helicopter (we charged only for our direct operating costs, about 1/3 commercial rates in East Africa). They told me, “Fly for whomever needs support. We will cover the costs.”

No organization is perfect. But the NGO ground troops get far more “bang for the buck” than the various UN alphabet agencies in their gilded towers in Nairobi & Geneva. And the churches, with minimal personnel and even less money are in there, good times and bad, working to help “keep body & soul together” so that souls may be saved.

Perhaps you should spend 6 months, working with an organization which has your approval, in a “developing country” to learn “how the other half lives”. It would bless you far more than you can imagine.


29 posted on 04/14/2021 6:00:37 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( Experience is the best teacher, but if you can accept it 2nd hand, the tuition is less!)
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To: BwanaNdege

I’m not criticizing STC, but in addition to attacking Trump, her other reason for quitting was that comedians were making fun of her.

I call total bs on Sally Struthers.


35 posted on 04/14/2021 6:25:27 AM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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