A US federal employee has received an award for initiating the decision to spend 300 million dollars on stoves for poor and developing nations. This is only the most recent contribution America has made to the United Nations Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
The project is ostensibly meant to provide the unfortunate citizens of poor nations with clean and efficient cookstoves in order to prevent harm from inhaling smoke from indoor cooking fires. It might have been cheaper to just tell these people to cook outside.
Find out more about the expenditure on page 2.
Just shows how the government really works, and not for the USA
Too sad
America first.
So much can be done with so little with knowledge
I don’t mind the 300 mil on stoves, but they’re going to the WRONG PEOPLE!!!
I know!
The country cannot afford nor do they want ovomit throwing away hard earned tax dollars. I dont care that these third world countries don’t have stoves, not our problem, what I do care about is the ever rising nat’t debt, our veterans, starving children and elderly in the country etc etc, its time to look after this country.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/07/world/africa/tanzania-stoves/
It seems to me this is a noble cause. I would love to see a non-profit or charity be successful in providing stoves to those that need them. Saving lives is a worthy endeavor.
I also am having some trouble understanding how tax money should be used for such charity?
Charity should be voluntary, not forced.
Why not give the majority of our charity to our own people in need and give a tiny amount to Non Governmental Organizations? Those NGOs do a wonderful job with very little and they truly help the poor help themselves.