Thank you for this. I am shattered by the decimation of our native tribes currently being caused by COVID, with very little coverage. In fact, Oglala and Standing Rock Sioux tribes lost tribal leaders just last week with absolutely no recognition from our leadership or any statesmen. This is an absolute travesty. As a health care worker,…
Thank you for this. I am shattered by the decimation of our native tribes currently being caused by COVID, with very little coverage. In fact, Oglala and Standing Rock Sioux tribes lost tribal leaders just last week with absolutely no recognition from our leadership or any statesmen. This is an absolute travesty. As a health care worker, the fact that global aid organizations like MSF and Partners in Health have to respond within our own country is mind boggling.
You don't know the half of it. A few months ago, here in Atlanta, I got into conversation with a waiter at a pizza place while I was waiting for my socially-distanced pizza. He commented that his income was actually higher during the pandemic because they had laid off most of the staff and were making a quarter of the staff to 4 times as much work. But even though the pace was unsustainable, he was unworried. After all, he had a day job.
During the day, he worked with a non-profit that mainly serviced the poorest of the Atlantan population, homeless or housed in squats. I asked if his funding had taken a hit. He said not, that the United Way had stepped up, as had the Jewish Community Center. But most of the administrative funding had been superbly stable, and had come, as it had for years, from a most reliable source.
From the Federal Republic of Germany.
The poorest of our Atlanta citizens are being supported, in large part, by a foreign aid grant from Germany. (sigh)
Stuart, I can't find any confirmation of German foreign aid going to any American city. Have you found some confirmation of this claim? I posted a link above regarding German foreign aid that goes mostly to African countries. There are so many claims right now that I think we need to check them before rallying around them.
Because our leaders are entitled and elite and wealthy, that not only do they have no compassion for anyone less fortunate, they have no comprehension of how so many of their own citizens live. Our country is run by the rich who buy and steal their power.
I can't find any link to German support of nonprofits in Atlanta, or anywhere in the US for that matter. Siemens is a German company based in Atlanta that funds research and community education in Atlanta as a PR effort. But I can't find links to German foreign aid grants. Here is a Borgen report on German foreign aid which principally goes to African countries. Can anyone else find links to foreign aid that Germany provides to any US city? https://www.borgenmagazine.com/german-foreign-aid/
I've not read anything in the local press about aid to US organizations, but the BMZ has a statement on their site that hunger is an issue they address worldwide.
I had no idea that MSF or any global aid organization was operating within our boundaries! OMG! How incredibly shameful! Your post first caught my eye with the word ‘shattered’ and I was going to reply and say that was the perfect word.... until I read to the end. Now words fail me for I cannot describe how deeply wounded in spirit I am that we have so abandoned our own people (for they are “our” people!) that international aid must intervene. Dear God.
there must be detailed transparency around all of america’s genocides... both past and present. seemingly, covid is a platform for what i would call ‘various racial genocides’.
Thank you for this. I am shattered by the decimation of our native tribes currently being caused by COVID, with very little coverage. In fact, Oglala and Standing Rock Sioux tribes lost tribal leaders just last week with absolutely no recognition from our leadership or any statesmen. This is an absolute travesty. As a health care worker, the fact that global aid organizations like MSF and Partners in Health have to respond within our own country is mind boggling.
You don't know the half of it. A few months ago, here in Atlanta, I got into conversation with a waiter at a pizza place while I was waiting for my socially-distanced pizza. He commented that his income was actually higher during the pandemic because they had laid off most of the staff and were making a quarter of the staff to 4 times as much work. But even though the pace was unsustainable, he was unworried. After all, he had a day job.
During the day, he worked with a non-profit that mainly serviced the poorest of the Atlantan population, homeless or housed in squats. I asked if his funding had taken a hit. He said not, that the United Way had stepped up, as had the Jewish Community Center. But most of the administrative funding had been superbly stable, and had come, as it had for years, from a most reliable source.
From the Federal Republic of Germany.
The poorest of our Atlanta citizens are being supported, in large part, by a foreign aid grant from Germany. (sigh)
Sounds like a "third world" country to me. Who's in the "banana republic" now?
Stuart, I can't find any confirmation of German foreign aid going to any American city. Have you found some confirmation of this claim? I posted a link above regarding German foreign aid that goes mostly to African countries. There are so many claims right now that I think we need to check them before rallying around them.
I frankly haven't looked.
Equally shattered by this. Thank you for letting us know.
Same!
Eye-popping.
Because our leaders are entitled and elite and wealthy, that not only do they have no compassion for anyone less fortunate, they have no comprehension of how so many of their own citizens live. Our country is run by the rich who buy and steal their power.
I can't find any link to German support of nonprofits in Atlanta, or anywhere in the US for that matter. Siemens is a German company based in Atlanta that funds research and community education in Atlanta as a PR effort. But I can't find links to German foreign aid grants. Here is a Borgen report on German foreign aid which principally goes to African countries. Can anyone else find links to foreign aid that Germany provides to any US city? https://www.borgenmagazine.com/german-foreign-aid/
This is the agency in Germany that would provide any such assistance: https://www.bmz.de/en/index.html
I've not read anything in the local press about aid to US organizations, but the BMZ has a statement on their site that hunger is an issue they address worldwide.
Thank you for researching.
I had no idea that MSF or any global aid organization was operating within our boundaries! OMG! How incredibly shameful! Your post first caught my eye with the word ‘shattered’ and I was going to reply and say that was the perfect word.... until I read to the end. Now words fail me for I cannot describe how deeply wounded in spirit I am that we have so abandoned our own people (for they are “our” people!) that international aid must intervene. Dear God.
Without the MSF the Navajo tribes would have had even more problems with the Covid bug
there must be detailed transparency around all of america’s genocides... both past and present. seemingly, covid is a platform for what i would call ‘various racial genocides’.