Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him.

Mahatma Gandhi

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http://www.telegraph.co....st-says-World-Bank.html

http://www.worldbank.org..._poor_paper_April17.pdf[/quote]


Why are you happy to splash photos of India's poor while you complain when mzungu posts photos of kibera, with flying toilets and all, as the face of Kenya? Have you ever asked yourself why mzungu never publishes photos of the homeless people in his country....those who live on the streets, and under bridges?

It's all got to do with Maslow's hierarchy of needs.......India is up there at self actualization while we are at the very bottom of the pyramid thinking about food and shelter.

Poverty can't be alleviated by resource allocation. People are poor because they don't use the resources they already possess.

If the government has a role to play, then it's that of setting standards high by expressing the highest ideals possible for her people so that more citizens can raise their own standards. In that case, India has done and has been doing well.

The cultural and spiritual heritage of India can't be compared to Kenya's, and that's where we are losing it.

Like of late, I have come to see that young people in Kenya are getting more disenchanted with life and their pursuits tend to be harmful to their health and humanity's welfare. That is, Kenya is rapidly increasing it's population of the poor.

But I also realize that Kenya can change overnight and become an international power house. The ingredient that's needed is a suitable cultural and philosophical framework that can utilize advances in information and communication technology.

And that needs only a private initiative, and in a few years we can raise the civilization level by tapping most of the solar energy that goes unused.

We are fast asleep, and we really need to wake up.

If the potential is there, what is lacking...? Capital?

But either way Kenya needs to learn from Indians. It beats me why Safcom makes billions in and calling costs are in shillings, should be cents! Education should be so affordable that we should attract foreign students, medical care should be top class we should attract people from all over, we should find other ways to fight inflation as opposed to interest rates, money should be available and affordable... banks making billions is not right! Our taxation... I won't even go there.

Even the duvets the Indian street dwellers are rocking are way better that what alot of Wazuans have.