Volunteers help to plug 'development' gap

How about getting volunteers from the African diaspora to give something back to Africa? Why is it always up to the European and Anglo-Saxon youngsters.

Dear Khalsa Singh,

The volunteers are also Irish (celtic), Danish, Germanic, Frankish, Italian, Nordic, Ruomanian, Austrian and every other ethnicity in Europe you are ignorant of.

And they are also Latino, Black, Afro Caribbean, African American, Vietnamese, Chinese, Middle Eastern, Inuit, etc etc, or were you totally ignorant of how many ethnicities we now have in the "North" (considering you might just have noticed the President Obama thing.)

PS. Did the writers of this report consider such people as Father Trevor Huddleston, (Technically paid, but only for living expenses in service to God.) as having no effect on the population and being a colonial mentality, or the Mission schools which for centuries were the only source of Education for Natives in the Colonies?

One wonders how they came up with the idea that two and half centuries of voluntary education by religious colonists had "no effect" on development, even if it did enforce colonial attitudes like those of Nelson Mandela, who was taught by them.

Yo Singh, I agree, they should require people that live off grants or whatever to do voluteer work, that can be anything from picking up litter to guarding communal taps from abuse etc. There is plenty to do but nobody wants to lift a finger to do it. They are prepared to attack foreigners for 'stealing their jobs' though.