An Announcement from the Management
To all friends who have or have not worked with us,
Please do not offer any financial help to anyone who claims to be working with KICVOP, unless you have consulted the management of KICVOP. We have received several cases of our former volunteers offering financial help to youngsters who claimed to be working with us. The money was in the end never recovered and wasted for some personal gains.
Please be also aware that KICVOP will not ask for any financial help from you either through the organisation or our employees. All people who are officially qualified to work with us have been listed on our website: www.kicvop.org
If you have any concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me,
Email Address: landonmeng@gmail.com
Best regards,
Landon
Programme Coordinator of KICVOP
How could you persuade your parents to let you go to Uganda? I've heard that it is not safe there.
ReplyDeleteDo you have any bro or sis?
Dear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteI do think I'm old enough to decide what I do and not to do. My parents are my parents, they can advise and , in return, I decide. There is no place which is perfectly safe. I've been in the UK for two years. The young mobs there made me sometimes more afraid than being here alone. If life is only measured by its level of safety, then why do we drink? Why do we smoke? Why do we drive cars?
And unfortunately, I am the only child in the family, as most of the people in my generation in China.
Best regards,
Why dont you volunteer in China? Because there are lots of people there need your help and China is your hometown.
ReplyDeleteDear Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteChina is my motherland and I will contribute what I can when time and right opportunities unveil themselves. I will work wherever I can and am able to in hope of making a positive impact in a country and for the world. I do not tend to favour China for my nationality, nor do I marginalise it. The important thing, I think, is what I do, how dedicated I am in doing it and how beneficial my work is to the world, rather than merely where I work and for whom I work. A smile on a child's face and a thankful gesture from an adult being cared are all emotions for which we cherish universally. I do think the beauty of mankind is in its wholeness, the ability to endure difficulties and share good deeds across boundaries.
If you look at the foreign aid given to Uganda each year, you would be surpirsed to find the amount has been in fact in somewhat exponential growth. I think it has topped up 1.5 billion dollars in 2008 in a country where its annual GDP was 15 billion dollars at around the same time. China, of course, had its contribution in the aid. If what I and all others do here can one day lead to Uganda's economic independence, then China would no doubt be one of the biggest beneficiaries, so would the people you mentioned! Those positive externalities in this globalised world have always fascinated me and, I hope, you as well.
I hope I have managed to answer some of your concerns,
Best regards,
L