Eduction in Africa and the rule of law.

The best way to fight poverty is to promote education and fight illitracy. You can help us fight poverty in East Africa by donating your old mobile phone. www.givecell.net

We cannot fight poverty but we can fight ilitracy. One cannot combain both. I also felt that many NGOs and aid agencies are more there for their own sake, rather than for promoting real development (I recommend the excellent book by John reader called The white mans burden, Dead Aid by Dambisa Moyo), that in my view is the best account of how the donating business fails in doing much contribution to third world development). In order to allow the donors to get more involved and have the possibility of follow up on their donations, givecell created the internet based database where all donations can be tracked by the donor. I created this website two years ago to help in sustainable development by colecting old unwanted phones and selling them in different countries by women ran oraganisations that then pay school fees for the unable pupils between the ages of 15. This would as well help employing a few numbers of women in different regions depending on there country of residence.

However, we managed to collect a few phones and am glad to say that 4-8 children are able to go to school today.

I stronglly believe that Eduction and the rule of law put together will contribute to the development. People luck knowledge and skills which are a main factor to development.
How will you convience a person that has never been to school to plant a tree to protect the environment with out him knowing the uses of trees apart from getting coal from them. Agriculture is not developing because of luck of knowledge. Farmers are not willing to adapt to the new farming technologies because that´s not how there fore fathers told them to cultivate hence leading to land degradation.
If you tell a farmer that a mature forest in Sweden takes 100 years, they will laugh because for them it is now that matters and tomorrow will provide for it´s self. However, the donor money that has been taken from the tax payers in the western world to provide information and help developing these countries, has done more harm than good by promoting corruption and civil wars where hundreds of people die each day.

Rule of law is factor 2, A functioning country should be able to protect it citzens. Women and girls are having the most problems because there is no law to protect them aganist the crimes committed aganist them e.g: Rape, Asult, Discrimination and the strong traditions.
In Africa, a person that has stolen a hen can be put in jail or asked to pay a fine well as a rape case is looked as a fever that will soon get cured and most of the time, the woman is said to have been in the wrong by the way she was dressed giving room to the rapist. It is really absurd!

Governments in developing countries should be given certain conditions to meet! They are the main roadblocks to development. They own everything and never want to leave power!