Sometimes we need to call to attention the amount of funds , human power and resources es are being used by hundreds of thousands of organisation to alleviate the down trodden and the marginalised.
There is a need for a global audit. You see it every where the United Nations, Asian development, European Union, Red cross, green crescent, every national government Like in India we have the NAREGA like schemes and hundreds more under different heads of health, food, shelter, education, women welfare, environment,legal aid, medicine sans borders etc.Then we have similar funds available under the state government and the district level and Zilla Pradesh level. This is similar in almost every country as almost all these nations were under the European rule except for countries ruled by dictators.
Then you have funding from large NGO international and national and local , then there are religious organisations funding at the international , national and local level and then there are do gooders. In India now we have the Corporate Social Responsibility funds from the corp orate houses.
Any natural clalmity and you have billions relased by USA, European union, United nations not orgetting the various National and state funding and the donations collected in the name of the calamity.
The total funds available for all causes year after year even if given to the right government body or distributed to the target audience the target audience would all be living in villas and driving a Peugeot if not a Mercedes Benz.
I just want to know the math and understand the economics and politics of this do gooding business a part of which I am too.
My simple question to myself and my foundation is why are the numbers suffering or issues or events not even reducing forget the increase. Is it that globally the strife is increasing, Economist say that the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. Sounds all good for the speaker but I heard this same argument put forth by my Dad nearly 30 years ago. So nothing seems to have changed. Or is this all a smoke screen for something larger. The moment the government introduced CSR the number of NGOs have increased 100 fold. The same companies who we went to begging for support have now come with a complicated system to release funds and now want all sorts of documentary proof. Intent to do good is not good enough. documentary and physical proof is required. But all are chipping in all the same and good handsome amount and therefore the increase in registering the NGO.
Today there is more funds, more specialised people more do gooders and even then there are questions in my mind. This is just another money making and distribution scheme where employment is generated enough number of people are travelling for conference, seminars, even more are doing data collection, and still more are analysing the data and then all come together in numerous fora to tell us that we are all worse of today then we were yesterday, and that enough funding is not there. Almost all ministries in the government of India are dishing out huge amount of money for the alleviation of all the malaise. Even so farmers are commiting suicide. The math just does not add up.
But the moot point is why is the world even today worse of than yesterday?
There is a need for a global audit. You see it every where the United Nations, Asian development, European Union, Red cross, green crescent, every national government Like in India we have the NAREGA like schemes and hundreds more under different heads of health, food, shelter, education, women welfare, environment,legal aid, medicine sans borders etc.Then we have similar funds available under the state government and the district level and Zilla Pradesh level. This is similar in almost every country as almost all these nations were under the European rule except for countries ruled by dictators.
Then you have funding from large NGO international and national and local , then there are religious organisations funding at the international , national and local level and then there are do gooders. In India now we have the Corporate Social Responsibility funds from the corp orate houses.
Any natural clalmity and you have billions relased by USA, European union, United nations not orgetting the various National and state funding and the donations collected in the name of the calamity.
The total funds available for all causes year after year even if given to the right government body or distributed to the target audience the target audience would all be living in villas and driving a Peugeot if not a Mercedes Benz.
I just want to know the math and understand the economics and politics of this do gooding business a part of which I am too.
My simple question to myself and my foundation is why are the numbers suffering or issues or events not even reducing forget the increase. Is it that globally the strife is increasing, Economist say that the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. Sounds all good for the speaker but I heard this same argument put forth by my Dad nearly 30 years ago. So nothing seems to have changed. Or is this all a smoke screen for something larger. The moment the government introduced CSR the number of NGOs have increased 100 fold. The same companies who we went to begging for support have now come with a complicated system to release funds and now want all sorts of documentary proof. Intent to do good is not good enough. documentary and physical proof is required. But all are chipping in all the same and good handsome amount and therefore the increase in registering the NGO.
Today there is more funds, more specialised people more do gooders and even then there are questions in my mind. This is just another money making and distribution scheme where employment is generated enough number of people are travelling for conference, seminars, even more are doing data collection, and still more are analysing the data and then all come together in numerous fora to tell us that we are all worse of today then we were yesterday, and that enough funding is not there. Almost all ministries in the government of India are dishing out huge amount of money for the alleviation of all the malaise. Even so farmers are commiting suicide. The math just does not add up.
But the moot point is why is the world even today worse of than yesterday?
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