Seven Discoveries in A Poor country
All poor countries have something in common. It's shocking that our leaders see these things but are too lazy to solve at least one of the many.
1.I discovered a poor country that was suffering from the lack of water. Most areas in the capital city did not have running water. Amazingly, the capital city of that country had huge lakes on the outskirts of the city which were used to pump fresh water into the city. Can you believe that sixty per cent of the water pumped went to waste through burst pipes and unchecked leakage?
2.I discovered a poor country which had embassies all over the world. This poor country could not build its own roads and even toilets. Yet, it maintained embassies that cost thousands and thousands of dollars to run every month. I visited some of the embassies of this poor country and it would have a staff of ten to twenty-five well-educated people who have almost nothing to do. Instead of building an embassy, they had rented expensive buildings in the capital city for decades. Can you imagine the cost of a highly indebted and poor African country running fully staffed embassies in The Hague, Tokyo, New York, Geneva, Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris, Berlin, Rome, The Hague, Moscow, Madrid, Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Ottawa and so on. Fantastic! Poor people are usually great wasters.
3.I discovered a poor country that was suffering from lack of food, lack of employment and a lack of everything. This poor country had to import millions of dollars of rice, meat and sugar. I decided to take a drive through that country. Did I see well-cultivated farms? No. I saw miles and miles of uncultivated bushes. You would have thought that every square inch of that poor nation would be used for farming so that they would not need to import food.
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