Fergie's Tech Blog

WSIS: Cry for Food, Get a Cheap Computer

Editorial via The Zimbabwe Independent.

The children who were made to cheer the computer donations did not have three square meals a day. As the president donated computers, there were no drugs at rural clinics and ambulances were grounded due to a shortage of either spare parts or fuel - sometimes both.

To use the wise words from the president, the child who sat for the whole day in the sun waiting for his arrival was not looking for a computer terminal but for morsels of food and for a "humane society that guarantees him food, health, shelter and education". How cruel can the world be? Children crying every morning for food get computers instead.

It is trite that the computer donation blitz was President Mugabe's pet project.

posted by Fergie @ 11/18/2005 05:56:00 AM