Ebola outbreak: Guinea health team killed

Haggisman said:
Well, educating is exactly what the medical teams were trying to do...
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Dis86 said:
You can't educate someone who doesn't want to be educated and who if you try hacks you up with a machete and throws your remains in to an excrement filled pit.
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You're making a big assumption. They genuinely think it's witchcraft. If we want to help them, and we should be helping them, then we need to educate them otherwise. If we don't educate them, and don't help them, then we risk the virus spreading.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
You're making a big assumption. They genuinely think it's witchcraft. If we want to help them, and we should be helping them, then we need to educate them otherwise. If we don't educate them, and don't help them, then we risk the virus spreading.
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It's not an assumption. It's in the article that that was the purpose of the team...
 
dirtychinchilla said:
You're making a big assumption. They genuinely think it's witchcraft. If we want to help them, and we should be helping them, then we need to educate them otherwise. If we don't educate them, and don't help them, then we risk the virus spreading.
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And how do you propose to educate someone who's first response to your presence is to throw stones at you, followed by hacking you to pieces and disposing of your body in a septic tank?

I doubt an Open University course is going to do the trick...
 
These are isolated communities, it doesn't matter to the civilised world if they are ravaged by ebola, if they are going to murder innocent civilians then they'll just have to be left to it, karma I guess.
 
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Can I just add, who ever wrote that article needs to go back to school. It's awful! So broken in places and just doesn't flow at all.
 
It's sub-Saharan Africa. A friend of mine spent some time in Niger as part of his University degree. He and the company he was with set up a solar power system that powered water pumps & purifiers, charged phones, radios and torches and allowed other such simple devices to be used in villages that were literally in the middle of nowhere.

Two weeks later when they went to check how they were working out and to fix any problems that had arisen they found every one had been stripped down to it's components and either sold on or used as building materials or farming implements.

It's just how it is in that part of the World.
 
Odd you mention that. When I was at uni I designed a solar oven made out of cheap common materials in order to deploy in Africa, South America and parts of Asia to discourage use of wood in cooking and to help purify water. I was tasked to design it for a well known charity who would supply it. They did and found exactly the same thing, people just stole the bits, sold them or used them for something else.
They abandoned the follow up project with me which was a solar powered Stirling engine I'd proposed so I went ahead and used it for my final project!
 
Dis86 said:
Odd you mention that. When I was at uni I designed a solar oven made out of cheap common materials in order to deploy in Africa, South America and parts of Asia to discourage use of wood in cooking and to help purify water. I was tasked to design it for a well known charity who would supply it. They did and found exactly the same thing, people just stole the bits, sold them or used them for something else.
They abandoned the follow up project with me which was a solar powered Stirling engine I'd proposed so I went ahead and used it for my final project!
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You can't help people who won't help themselves .

In the cases here it's just the ignorance of the people in question, they simply don't understand the value of what you were doing for them. You could build such things to be indestructible and come back two weeks later and find it's being used as a chicken coop.
 
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