An Invitation To Contribute To A Bore Hole, Not A Black Hole

Greedy lunatics at the UN demanding $30 trillion as recompense for slavery (almost all of which was based on active African assistance and profit) is the sort of Third World bureaucrat hypocrisy that’s guaranteed to get up every western nose that doesn’t belong to Yvette Cooper. But the UN’s glaring hypocrisy shows just how out of touch it is. African leaders increasingly want White geopolitical influence kicked off their turf in return for targeted, practical help, while ordinary black citizens want to bring wanton corruption to an end.

The adoption of deadly neoliberal capitalism by more and more African States has persuaded thousands of local communities to micro-manage the raising of private support monies and leave the rulers well out of the mix; the citizen/government distrust that makes Africa unique continues, I’m afraid. This is an appeal on behalf of one very small village going this route forwards. For the only thing that holds them back in terms of food and disease is the easily purifiable liquid that’s right underneath their feet – fresh, clean

WATER

Dip your toe into the available data and discussion about water, and like seemingly every subject on the planet in 2023 there are 3.7 million pages all screaming climate change. So I thought I’d kick off this Appeal by establishing one very simple fact: we have had a water problem since the early 1950s for simple related reasons: the same amount of potable drinking water exists on the planet today as pertained over a million years ago, but only 2.3 per cent of it is purifiable and accessible; since 1955, the human population has trebled; post war growth led to better housing with multiple water usage products; as a species, progress throughout the last 150 years has been measured increasingly by social scientists on the basis of water quality and hygiene standards, and this has led to overuse; and although with “modernisation” of lifestyles plus more contraception has come a tendency to have fewer children, this is more than cancelled out by vastly increased domestic consumption per inhabitant.

In 2022, the average US household used one hundred gallons of potable water per day.

Although I’m dismissive of modelled climate change and associated ’emergency’ claptrap, people who know me well understand that I can bore for England on the subject of potable water shortages. It’s the only environmental crisis worthy of the name, but the NWO depopulators ignore it because it doesn’t have the fear-factor of invisible beasties, or the Earth as a supercharged frying-pan.

At the risk of people not seeking out my company in future, I don’t flush the loo every time after urinating and I shower three times a week because the sea is close by and (research suggests) full of antiseptic salt water. Here in The Gambia, in the dry season clean water is a major problem not least because the governing classes are largely concerned with self-enrichment and so collection is often rudimentary.

Largely via the private sector (there really isn’t a public one worth talking about) some progress has been made in the last few decades via the bore-hole system. As it’s name suggests, a large rotating digger burrows down until it hits rain water, which can then be pumped up, easily purified or used as grey water on crops.

I drink borehole water and use it in cooking, dish-washing, kettle tea and so forth. Although during the early days of my arrival here, I endured a few explosive episodes, immunity soon kicks in. But the installation of these holes comes into its own in the traditional Gambian villages where, increasingly, the inhabitants are looking to improve their lives through vegetable crops to sell at markets, and clean drinking water to reduce the constant threat of malaria. The two factors are inextricably linked: less malaria equals more workers fit enough to plant, water and sell the greens.

Here comes the Appeal……

Alhagie Njie is the President of the Join hand togther Fruit & Vegetable Garden Association (FAVGA) in Toniataba in the Jarra district lower river region of The Gambia

It is a tiny village with excellent soils and willing, mutualist labour, but it lacks the money thing to get two boreholes drilled for safe drinking and hygienic veg/fruit watering and cleaning.

Boreholes don’t come cheap, but in the greater scheme of things designed to turn a penniless village into a self-sufficient exporter to local markets and shops, they are one of the best investments known to Man.

Prices vary, but two good quality holes drilled by experienced engineers plus pumping equipment and storage would cost in the region of three to five thousand Pounds Sterling depending on survey and soil type that has already been assessed by FAVGA.

Having worked on charity advertising accounts of various kinds for over thirty years, my view is very strongly that pictures of kids covered in flies don’t cut it, and the key to a good response is focus on a manageable size of goal, alongside faith that (a) every last penny goes into the project (b) a problem is being solved for many years rather than a few days and (c) it is corruption-free.

Alhagie is a man of gentle character and practicality who works as a security guard in the apartment block where I live. The Join Hand Together Fruit & Vegetable Garden Association was founded three years ago and has the company reg number C-92979/9-2021. It banks at the

Soma Branch of SUPERSONICZ MICRO-FINANCE

ACCOUNT NO 05-1006-02187

You can check out the bank online at http://www.supersonicz.gm

Times are tough for all of us – I know that. But without clean water, tough times become desperate. The sum I want the appeal to reach – at or above 5000 Pounds sterling – isn’t a lot. But I’m happy to match whatever you want to send up to that amount myself, remaining a fan of Put Money where Mouth is.

I know overseas aid often seems like a Black Hole. But bore holes save lives. Please give as generously as you can – direct to the bank account above.

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