Tanzania's minimum monthly wage is the equivalent of about 41 USD. (we spend this each week on groceries here.) Tanzanian businesses have blocked a proposed raise to 140 USD per month. The life expectancy in Tanzania is 51.5. Both minimum wage and life expectancy are rather on the high side for Sub-Saharan Africa.
There are 191 UN member states; 144 are rated poor countries.
“The Americans had hoisted the refugees aboard their ship and given them food and water, but they were very unfriendly. ‘Angry’ says the (Haitian) man. ‘They said that there were too many people like us and that we were driving them crazy. They did not take us to Guantanamo Bay (which was being used as a refugee camp for Hatians), but straight back to Port-au-Prince. But I still have gran-gou (translates to my life is a vale of tears), and I want to tell that to the Americans at the cinema. Maybe these ones will understand.’” (from my bedtime reading again, of course.)
This makes me wonder how many people we don’t take seriously when they ask for our help. I hope I will be an American that understands.
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i am sure you will understand, especially knowing what you know and are continuing to learn about the wonderful world we live in :)
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