For those who are not familiar with how an NGO works, the following may be somewhat surprising; however, you will understand where your charitable contributions go.

The other evening I had a conversation with a young, Australian man who heads an NGO that operates in the Philippines. This young man holds a Masters in Economics and is formerly an HSBC banker.

This particular NGO uses Muhammad Yunus's Nobel Prize winning idea of micro-loans. Here is how micro-loans work; in this example, the WTO creates an NGO. The NGO has plans for a cook stove. This cook stove is designed abroad and is (allegedly) fifty percent more efficient than the local cook stove the Philippines islanders are using: benefit for the locals: use less charcoal; global benefit: deplete less rainforest. Great idea?

But the stoves are not free. They cost three dollars. The locals have no cash; they live almost perfectly money free lives. This eco-friendly NGO is not a charity at all, but a tool of the WTO, with three (real) purposes:

• to lay down a ground work for a future cash economy were there previously was little to none;
  
  
• to create a quarter billion dollars of debt for rural Filipinos --which can then be sold on the Futures Market;
  
  
• create 200 million tons of Carbon Credit to be sold on the Carbon Credit Market. (Recall the claim of 50% greater efficiency).

Now you know how this sort of thing works; and why Muhammad Yunus's idea of micro-loans is so important. National debt in the Philippines is raising 11% per year, foreign debt is now over P4,000,000,000,000 and internal debt is at 68 billion dollars. But micro-loans can still tap billions out of the country at the peasant level. In its first year of operations, this NGO has distributed 20,000 cook stoves.

Hi Vana,

Funny you should write about this. My wife and I were just having a discussion of religious institutions. My belief is that any institution//organization/entity regardless of marketing/purpose/belief exists to perpetuate itself. No matter how bright/sunny/honorable it's intentions are, they need resources to survive and for this, you can hardly distinguish them from other private/profit organizations who are aiming for the same thing.

That said, NGO's follow the same mold of any other entity. It needs resources to survive, so it'll do whatever it can to attain these resources. Whether they get it from product sales, association fees, international funding, it doesn't matter. Bottom line is they're no better or worse than any other business entity. I'm saying this as a Filipino, working for an Agriculture company which relies on people and the environment for production. So, I've definitely dealt with my fair share of NGO issues.

lorsban

Quite impressive for Capitalism. I actually like this idea.

Wait, what am I saying, I probably only read the first half and skimmed through the rest.

(also sorry for double post)

hi vana,
i want to open an NGO but i dont know that how to get loans from the donors and where i can find donors please help me if u can
my all the thanks would be for you