NGOs maketh me wary...

Many NGOs and their protagonists have made me quite wary...
Some have made the organisations their own li'l kindoms...
Some have institutionalised them personally so much so Mr ABC is NGO1 and NGO1 is Mr ABC; Miss XYZ is NGO2 and NGO2 is Miss XYZ...

You have got my drift, yes?

NO?

Then how about after reading this...?

From The Star, page 46:
Wednesday January 25, 2006


NGOs quit Sri Lanka with tsunami cash

COLOMBO: A number of foreign non-governmental organisations, which had signed agreements with the Sri Lankan government to reconstruct houses and schools in the Ampara district, have left the country before completing their work, the Housing Ministry said.

It was reported that these NGOs had collected large funds from their respective countries and other donors, but reneged on their agreements and slipped out to Pakistan where they were now engaged in fraudulent activities.

Minister of Housing and the Construction Industry Ferial Ashraff told The Island that the government had signed agreements with 25 NGOs to construct houses for tsunami-affected people, with the government providing them the relevant plans and required land.

She added that although 12,500 houses were needed in Ampara, construction work had commenced on only 1,200 houses. – The Island / Asia News Network

DESIDERATA:

Too often many NGOs criticise the government or agencies for lack of accountability.
But they should hold themselves up once a while in front of the mirror and ask of themselves:
Are we any different?

OtherWISE, how do you account for events such as the one publicised in COLOMBO as reported by The Island?
The worst type of "sin" I can imagine that humans can commit against humanity is to "steal" the funds collected in the name of disaster victims and then run away to enjoy the spoils.
May their gods of monkey business tear out their human-like brains,
trhen fed to the vultures that descend on seas of human misery whenever disaster strikes.
Tsunami?
What is that?
Some NGO activists treat it as an occasion to feast on Sushi -- Japanese BF, anyone, lunch2 and dinner3?!
What we do in outr own backyard is not subject to public scrutiny okay?!:(
And that's a rhetorical question...

Human rights?
What is that?
Some NGO activists treat it as something that they are entitled for themselves.
Do a check out on how they treat their own staff or house maids?
Oh, yeah, human rights in the public limelight.
What we do in our own backyard is none of your biz, okay?!:(
And that's another rhetorical question2...

If by now you are still at sea as to what Desiderata's ranting about this morning, please join me to use that God-given commodity which we seldom do justice to-
Imagination,
which according to a fellow Blogger - http://bkworm.blogspot.com -
is the Key to Freedom.

I know of certain Malaysian NGOS whose top few office bearers hog the limelight as if there are NO other office bearers suitable to become spokesmen. They would like my Post this morning.
Just like some NGO leaders go on annual holidays abroad sponsored by big funders from overseas who are sold on their causes.
Just some some others who hold on to their CEO posts -- like many of our much loved Polititkus -- for a few decades as if they are indsipensable.
Just like one social activist -- a former Opposition MP -- some people are "experts" in all fields of human endeavours that they speak like authorittative spokesmen for every damn thing happening under the Malaysian sun.
If you ask whop is this or that person referred to, my answer is:
Use your Imagination-lah!:)

Now I feel as liberated as Kyels, or maybe even as free as -
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull.