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Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Bill Gates' Insidious 'Green Revolution' Has Totally Failed Africa and IT’S LONG PAST TIME HE BACKS OFF THE MOTHER LAND!!!

   

Gates-funded ‘green revolution’ in Africa has failed, critics say     

Nina Shapiro | THE SEATTLE TIMES

When philanthropists spend vast sums of money on a project, jubilation and high expectations ensue. But money doesn’t necessarily produce results.

A case study, according to critics, is the push for a “green revolution” in Africa, which has spent $1 billion to date, much of it from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Saturday, December 11, 2021

📺MUST SEE: Inside MAKOKO • Nigeria's Biggest Slum (BEYOND crazy...)

        

Whatever troubles we may even rightly complain about, let us pray we don't also forget to be grateful to God for whatever blessings we have in this fleeting life.

Thursday, February 4, 2021

Billionaires thriving as poor suffer in widening COVID-19 divide

    

Sonia Elks | REUTERS

The 10 richest men, including Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla founder Elon Musk, Microsoft's Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, saw their net worth increase by $540 billion

LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Billionaires including Amazon's Jeff Bezos and Tesla founder Elon Musk have seen their wealth soar during the COVID-19 pandemic while the world's poor face years of hardship, charity Oxfam said on Monday as it demanded steps to tackle inequality.

Friday, September 11, 2020

The pandemic appears to have spared Africa so far. Scientists are struggling to explain why. (But afro-p offers the most likely theory...)



Linda Nordling | SCIENCE

Although Africa reported its millionth official COVID-19 case last week, it seems to have weathered the pandemic relatively well so far, with fewer than one confirmed case for every thousand people and just 23,000 deaths so far. Yet several antibody surveys suggest far more Africans have been infected with the coronavirus—a discrepancy that is puzzling scientists around the continent. “We do not have an answer,” says immunologist Sophie Uyoga at the Kenya Medical Research Institute–Wellcome Trust Research Programme.

Friday, January 24, 2020

More Than Half of Homeless Families Are Black, Government Report Says


Anne Branigin | THE ROOT

More than half a million Americans experienced homelessness in 2019—a number that has slowly ticked upward in recent years. Of the families that make up that number, the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress finds that 52 percent are black.

Monday, October 28, 2019

📺Watch: FELA KUTI • Water No Get Enemy • 1975




☝️The above video is one of the best I've seen on YouTube ~ every so often, for the better part of the past decade since I found it, I like to watch it again in order to remind myself that, despite all the injustice that remains to be corrected where I live, I am nevertheless extremely grateful that I do not have to struggle so desperately to obtain the most basic essentials to support life... and I need to empathise, pray and help in whatever manner I can -- those who do on an ongoing regular basis...