外国非政府组织真的是非洲的救世主吗

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外国非政府组织真的是非洲的救世主吗？

Foreign NGOs are everywhere in Africa.....and other "poor countries"

In the last few years, NGOs have become part of life in Africa.

But they are not truly part of Africa. They are all financed and controlled - directly or indirectly - by their rich Western governments. They are mainly all managed by Europeans or North Americans.

Some of the most powerful foreign NGOs seem to be like civilian branches of their home governments, who give them a lot of money. Foreign NGOs enjoy the support of their governments, their embassies, and companies from their own countries. This wealth and support gives them a lot of influence, and it puts them above the community groups and local NGOs of the countries where they work.

国外的非政府组织活跃在非洲及其他贫困国家。最近几年里，他们成为了非洲生活的一部分。但他们并不是真正意义上的非洲的一部分。富裕的西方政府为他们提供经费并直接或间接地控制着他们。他们主要是由欧洲或北美管理的。

其中一些非常强大的国外非政府组织其实是给予他们经济支持的母国政府的民间分支机构。他们享受来自母国政府，大使馆和跨国企业的支持。这些财富和支持也极大的影响了他们，使他们把母国关系置于当地社区组织和非政府组织之上。

1) "We know better than you"

It has become almost impossible to criticise Western NGOs. If you do, people react as if you are being rude and ungrateful. They look at you as if to say: "How dare you speak ill of these selfless missionaries who have come to help you?"

The fact that people do not feel able to criticise the NGOs has encouraged the NGOs to become arrogant and to believe that they know more than local people, and can provide better answers to their problems.

1）“我们比你更懂”

根本不能对这些西方非政府组织进行批评。如果你这么做的话，人们肯定觉得你很无理而且不知感恩。他们看着你好像在说：“你怎么能对这些无私地帮助你们的好心人出此恶言。” 实际保持沉默的人只会让这些非政府组织变得自以为是，以为他们比当地人更了解情况，能提出更好的解决方案。

2) Permanent Disasters

I am sure that many NGO workers really have come to Africa because they believe they are doing something good and right. However, it is also true that many are here because of their careers. Our misery is their job. Where will a disaster manager work if there are no more disasters? There is a danger that emergency situations will become permanent situations, especially now, when more NGO money is spent on disaster relief than on long-term development projects.

2）永恒的灾难

我相信很多来到非洲非政府组织的工作人员相信他们正在做好事，正确的事。但是，他们中很多人是因为自己的事业而来的。我们的不幸是他们的工作。如果世界上没有灾难了，那么

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还需要灾难管理者吗？特别是现在，当非政府组织资金越来越多的用于灾难援助的而非长期发展项目的时候，恐怕突发情况将成为常态。

refugee camp in Tanzania One example is the Negara refugee camp in Tanzania, a camp for refugees from the terrible atrocities of the war in Rwanda. The Negara refugee settlement became the second-biggest city in Tanzania (after Dar-es-Salaam). However, it was not under the control of the Tanzanian government, it was controlled by the NGOs. Each NGO seemed to have its own "territory" where it flew its own flag. The message seemed to be that rival NGOs were saying to each other "If you stay away from my refugees, I will stay away from yours".

坦桑尼亚难民营 一个例子是坦桑尼亚的内加拉县难民营是给从残忍的卢旺达战争中逃离的难民准备的。内加拉县成了坦桑尼亚继Dar-es- Salaam市的第二大难民庇护城市，但是却不是由坦桑尼亚政府控制，而是由非政府组织控制的。每个非政府组织都有自己的地盘，并在自己的地盘上插自己的旗，这样来跟敌对非政府组织发出讯号：“如果你离我们的难民远点，我也会离你们的难民远点的。”

Many of the NGOs did not want the camp to close because they would lose their influence. The settlement was becoming a permanent city because the NGOs provided facilities that the refugees would not have if they returned to their homes in the hills of Rwanda.

很多非政府组织不想把营地的大门关闭，怕失去他们的影响力。这些非政府组织给他们提供了各种只有在这里才能使用的公共设施，如果他们离开，回到卢旺达，将无法享用这些设施，这样就使难民营成了永久性城市。

The best answer would be for the NGOs to start long-term projects in Rwanda, to improve living conditions there, and encourage the refugees to return home. But the NGOs said they couldn't do that because it wasn't part of their mandate; it was not what they were sent to Africa to do.

最好的解决方法是这些非政府组织在卢旺达当地成立长远项目来提高那儿的生活条件，并鼓励难民重返家园。但是他们说他们不能这么做，因为那不是他们的使命，不是他们被委派到此的目的。

3) The African Brain Drain

A brain drain is when a lot of well qualified and educated people leave their own country and go to work in other countries, where they can earn more money.

Thousands of skilled and highly qualified Africans leave Africa and live in the West, where they do unskilled jobs but are better paid. At the same time, the Western NGOs send skilled (and usually white) foreign "experts" to work in Africa, where they receive salaries and living conditions that are high by African standards.

Wouldn't it be better if the NGOs employed the skilled Africans and paid them the same high salaries, instead of sending foreign employees? By doing this, they would bring back to Africa a larger pool of well-educated and well-qualified Africans.

3）非洲人才流失

人才流失是指许多高素质受教育人为了能在他国挣到更多钱而离开祖国。

成千上万的拥有高技能和素质的非洲人离开非洲到西方生活，在那里从事非技能的工作只是为了能挣到更多钱。 同时，西方非政府组织派遣高技能外国专家（通常是白人）到非洲工作，他们的工资和住宿条件都高于非洲当地水平。

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