Carry on up the NGO

From small scale projects to HIV/AIDS programmes NGO’s (Non Governmental Organisations) are everywhere in Ghana. However well meaning they may be, their programmes often get up the noses of everyone from fishermen to shanty town inhabitants. Awareness programmes and educational programmes assume overcoming ignorance is the key to poverty reduction and improving people’s lives. Serious development and growth is definitely not in their dictionary. Shot in Ghana, Godbless, Wofa, De Roy and local fishermen and women are not ignorant, they are articulate and angry. They loathe the peanuts offered and sanctimonious lessons in good behaviour. They want jobs and material advancement and for NGO’s and aid agencies to stop treating them like children. As Godbless tells us “Africans have big brains, big aspirations….and want to live in liberty.”