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NGOs stands for Non-Governmental organisations which are independent organisations which are responsible for helping needy inhabitants of needy states. Deservedly or not NGOs have gained a reputation as the leading practitioners of rural development in Africa’s 3rd world countries. Some scholars argue that, NGOs are agencies of imperialism in the sense that they are there to fulfil the interests of their mother states under the cover of aid agencies. Whether this true or not, the works of NGOs cannot be overlooked in African countries through their provision of the much needed services such as healthcare, drug distribution, water supplies and sanitation.
According to the NASS module, NGOs are responsible for transferring concessional resources from one government to poor nations with the goal of promoting development in less developed countries. Being abide by this principle, NGOs for example Oxfam, Christian Aid, UN World Food Programme, World Vision and many others are giants in spearheading successful projects in Zimbabwe which are benefiting the natives. A good example of project which is being spearheaded by World Vision is the drilling of wells in the rural areas of Zimbabwe as well as in some high density suburbs. This act is improving the sanitary life of Zimbabwe and alleviating the outbreak of water borne disease like cholera which had hit some parts of Harare and rural areas.
According to www.worldfoodprogramme.org/christiancare/aid/2002 , “The UN World Food Programme started feeding 2.6 million people by February 2002, after drought warnings as early as December 2001”. The UN World Food Programme as a NGO from America came to African countries, Zimbabwe included, to assist people with grains, cooking oil, beans and other food staffs to alleviate the hunger which had stricken Southern African states. This act depicts NGOs as good aid agencies with the aim of preserving humanitarian values as opposed to the notion that they are agencies of imperialism.
According to the NASS module, NGOs are responsible for transferring concessional resources from one government to poor nations with the goal of promoting development in less developed countries. Being abide by this principle, NGOs for example Oxfam, Christian Aid, UN World Food Programme, World Vision and many others are giants in spearheading successful projects in Zimbabwe which are benefiting the natives. A good example of project which is being spearheaded by World Vision is the drilling of wells in the rural areas of Zimbabwe as well as in some high density suburbs. This act is improving the sanitary life of Zimbabwe and alleviating the outbreak of water borne disease like cholera which had hit some parts of Harare and rural areas.
According to www.worldfoodprogramme.org/christiancare/aid/2002 , “The UN World Food Programme started feeding 2.6 million people by February 2002, after drought warnings as early as December 2001”. The UN World Food Programme as a NGO from America came to African countries, Zimbabwe included, to assist people with grains, cooking oil, beans and other food staffs to alleviate the hunger which had stricken Southern African states. This act depicts NGOs as good aid agencies with the aim of preserving humanitarian values as opposed to the notion that they are agencies of imperialism.
References: Alexander J, McGregor J. (2000) Violence and Memory – One Hundred and T Ranger Ranger T. (2004) Nationalist historiography, patriotic history and the history of the nation: the struggle over the past Rutherford B. (2002) Zimbabwe: the politics of land and the political landscape’. Green Left Weekly. Issue 487. 10 Wageningen University : London NSS Module.