on the web I found this article and as I think in Peru, where I am now, as might have occurred, I've put it on the blog to serve as a reflection .
Recently, some visitors who had arrived in Uganda made me aware of a detail that I had gone unnoticed but is one of those who only see those who come to a site and look with new eyes: while most consumer goods were in Uganda infinitely cheaper than in Europe, prices per liter of fuel prices equivalent to those currently in force in Spain . Therefore, this implies that while eating or dressing is much cheaper, driving a motorcycle or a car or just light a home with an oil lamp out at European prices.
comment because it seems relevant to illuminate the story, not by repeated no longer relevant: Last Friday a tanker crashed on the population of Sange, in the Congolese region of South Kivu (Republic Democratic Republic of Congo). Given this event, and seeing that the fuel tank began to flow, the population of that area rushed to stockpile fuel using all types of containers. Despite the warnings that were given that the truck could explode ignored as they expected to return home with an unexpected gift and valuable. A 230 of these people (and not mentioned here ...), the hundreds of wounded that boldness has cost them their lives ... all for just a liter of fuel.
What a pity that produces more similar accidents repeated everywhere in Africa, the BBC spoke of events almost traced to this in Nigeria ( Oct 2009), Ghana (Nov 2008), Cameroon (Aug 2008), Nigeria again (Jan 2008 and Mar 2007) However, this list is not complete because I remember two more accidents in Kenya in February 2009, in a which killed 130 people.
much we repeat the safety tips and for working convince people, such incidents continue to occur and eventually involve hundreds of lives.
What can these people risk their lives this way? Is it simply reckless? I think not. I think the real reason is poverty . Millions of people without access to basic services, including electricity. Many people see them and want them to always have a pool of kerosene to light the house or possibly for cooking. prices of fossil fuels, as we have seen, are exorbitant compared to other products, so there is time to whom it is provided cakes go home with a bottle or a jug full of precious liquid. What our Western eyes is a trifle in terms chrematistic, for the most disadvantaged is a treasure , hence risking his own ... and so die. is the death of poor , the death of that clings to every lucky to emerge unscathed from the daily battle waged every day by millions of people surviving on less than a dollar a day . This battle is called survival.
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