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To: John Carragher who wrote (122170)	6/26/2005 1:35:48 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793917

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the greatest need is for disease control. Clean water, insect control, adequate drainage, sewage treatment, window screens, immunizations, sterile instruments in hospitals, things we take entirely for granted. For that, you need money. For schools, you also need money, to buy books, and pay teachers. I am not suggesting that government do it. That's been tried and it doesn't work. Individual philanthropy is necessary. But government pressure is needed to keep the African governments from ripping off the philanthropists or killing NGO workers, and to pressure them into setting up better infrastructure, and so forth.