Thanx Don for your experience. The NGO's I was referring to were the one's talked about by Dr. Beat Richner who deals a weekly scathing tounge lashing on the "western experts and the institutions they represent" UNICEF etc. I've attended the weekly Saturday evening events at his Bopha childrens hospital in Siem Reap on several occasions. Richner gets upset that the very same people who tell him that a proper diagnosis system is too expensive for Cambodian children just happen to stay next door at the $300.00/night Novotel golf and country estate. Granted these are the bigshots of their respective organizations but they are funded by people like me. I like your idea of going further out into the coutryside. Anymore info would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Lenny G > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:28:10 +1200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Supporting Cambodia > > > > > > Date: Fri 15 May 2009 22:44 > > From: Len Graceffo > > > I worked in Cambodia for four years. > > I've been told that university educated people don't earn $100.00/month > > U.S. > I was working in a Library, and I doubt the director of the library's > salary was $100 a month. IT graduates in private companies I dealt with > would have been on around 50-75 per month. > > > I don't like NGO's that will use my momey to stay in $ 300.00U.S. hotels > > which is why I decided to deal with the family directly. Thanx again for > > letting me vent. I feel better. Regards Lenny G > I was alway hearing about NGO workers earning fortunes and staying > expensive hotels. Never met any. Most NGO people I knew had left better > paying jobs in their home countries to work in Cambodia. The salary is > good by Cambodian standards though, but nothing like the stories in the > papers. > > There were consultants being payed big money by the IMF or World Bank - > generally speaking on short term contracts. But these were the exceptions. > > If you are looking for a way to help, I would suggest finding an > organization doing something worthwhile and support them. Pepy ride, > Room to Read, Open Institute etc. Personally, I'd favour someone more > than a days drive from Seim Reap or Phnom Penh ... but they can be hard > to find. > > don > > >
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