Corruption

Corruption. I really, hate Corruption here. Just to put it in prospective, I think every week there is an article in the news paper about how........ money goes missing. Sometimes its has high as 30 million Namibian (4 million US). Seriously its like every week 100,000 US goes missing, and nothing is ever done. I feel like its oh we lots a bunch of money, O well nothing we can do now its gone.

This goes along with other things too like the guy who took his family to the coast while making Emily pay to bring learners. He didn't pay a penny to bring his family, but made her pay to bring kids. A different example is Alex a vol in Rundu was driving with a co worker. They were driving a ministry car and needed 2 pints of oil. The guy at the gas station said here sign for 3 and ill give you some money and sell the third later. His counter part is actually with it and said no, but he is in the vast minority. If you ever hear about corruption in Africa, all i can say is its probably true. Even if its smile like in Okahandja when we visited an orphanage, and they had one chicken to put in the soup of 40 kids, but the staff worker decided they needed food more (yes they were getting paid and it was their job) and they ate half the chicken and left half a chicken for 40 kids. I have tons of stories I can share later this is just the tip of the ice berg.

On an up note, I did meet 2 people that were pretty awesome on my hiking back from the coast, doing volunteer work, raising money for schools, educated, and pretty much all around with the program. I just wish they didn't make up maybe 10% of the population. I would bet that about 90% of the people they work with do nothing and just kinda of stand around waiting for them to do something, if they are not activity doing thing that hurt them. Like take supplies they need, and other crazy stuff.

This also leads me to a republican type thinking, when I am here I tend to only want to work with the top people and help them. I know a few people doing teacher trainings that have come to the same conclusion too. Why is because you have a few people that are really trying, and the rest that could care less if they never go to class, every learner fails their class too. Or think of it this way, you have a few kids in a class that are trying their hardest to study and get into college, and the rest don't show up, or if they do maybe come to class drunk, or have no plans to even finish the school year, and never even learned how to read cause it was not important to them. Now you could drop down levels and try to help the people that could care less and aren't even listening to you, or say screw it and make sure the kids trying are prepared and ready while just letting the others sit and stare into space just like when you tried to helped them.