This sort of thing puts (too many) people on auto pilot.
Sweden sends around £20 million in aid annually to Rwanda. Obviously a lot of people are reacting over here, strongly questioning any further aid to be sent when Rwanda then sponsor Arsenal with £30 million. It's the sort of thing which unfortunately makes a lot of people finally jump far right and place their vote there (upcoming elections in Sweden, September).
I'm a bit torn myself. On one hand I don't think the name on Arsenal's shirts will increase anything much. On the other it's lazy to instantly think it's wasted money and even (as some claim) embezzled aid.
One one hand £30 million would go a long way among individuals in one of the poorest countries in the world, on the other £30 million isn't that much in the bigger scheme of things and it's always smart for a poor country to invest long term.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ivides-opinion
Off topic: watched a documentary about Rwanda recently where focus was their middle class. Not the super rich and not the super poor, Many Africans are themselves fed up with either the image of starving child with flies crawling on the eye lid, or the corrup super wealthy being broadcast. When there are millions in Africa living quite normal lives and who don't want to move anywhere. Kigali looked rather amazing from what was shown, and the people interviewed seemed all happy about their situation. Three of the people interviewed were African American who had moved from USA there, not as managers in some subsidiary to an American company. Just moved to get away from what they described as a new problematic USA.
Sweden sends around £20 million in aid annually to Rwanda. Obviously a lot of people are reacting over here, strongly questioning any further aid to be sent when Rwanda then sponsor Arsenal with £30 million. It's the sort of thing which unfortunately makes a lot of people finally jump far right and place their vote there (upcoming elections in Sweden, September).
I'm a bit torn myself. On one hand I don't think the name on Arsenal's shirts will increase anything much. On the other it's lazy to instantly think it's wasted money and even (as some claim) embezzled aid.
One one hand £30 million would go a long way among individuals in one of the poorest countries in the world, on the other £30 million isn't that much in the bigger scheme of things and it's always smart for a poor country to invest long term.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ivides-opinion
Off topic: watched a documentary about Rwanda recently where focus was their middle class. Not the super rich and not the super poor, Many Africans are themselves fed up with either the image of starving child with flies crawling on the eye lid, or the corrup super wealthy being broadcast. When there are millions in Africa living quite normal lives and who don't want to move anywhere. Kigali looked rather amazing from what was shown, and the people interviewed seemed all happy about their situation. Three of the people interviewed were African American who had moved from USA there, not as managers in some subsidiary to an American company. Just moved to get away from what they described as a new problematic USA.
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