RE: [AIDS INDIA] Re: Bill Gates Blew $258 million in India's HIV Corridor

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Dear Dr.Sharma

Despite everything we want BMGF funds. Isnt't it?

If NGOs are so upright and use words like the money blew instead of funding support given by BMGF then they should refuse the money.

No one has courage to do so. Then everone is doing it for community welfare.

I think the focus should be on learning from Gates and restrategiesing otehr program.

Regards

Minal

mkm

AIDS Treatment From: Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:36:01 -0700Subject: [AIDS INDIA] Re: Bill Gates Blew $258 million in India's HIV Corridor

Dear friends,(Please pass it to Ashok and if possible and if they can contact me too), Re: /message/10346I very much agree with your observations and i have been waiting even longer. I will like to add following as per our experiences esp. for all the hype for millions given by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or similar big funders as per our experiences- 1. It takes long time for changing the attitude and habits of people, which these funders never think or give time for or do not want to understand/know. Most of them have their own agenda rather. 2. Most of such help is business oriented and they like to give only if they can get more returns through business.3. Most of the money goes to their agents/consultants or middle men/working businesses/companies or gets wasted into administrative expenses as well high remunerations, perks, travel by first and business class and luxurious offices, while people working on grass root level do not get even minimum for what they are doing or if they want to do. 4. We must have written/requested so many times, submitted enquiries wasting our time for making projects etc. etc. but never received single penny from any one of these big organisations or funders. These were returned with computer generated replies or with regret letters for having committed funds already or having different areas for priority etc. etc. (For Gates Foundation esp.I was surprised when I was asked to submit the enquiry as per their date given with on going enquiries as per their last declaration of 100 million dollars for HIV programme in India and within two days I got a reply saying all funds, have already been committed and when I asked to whom and how did they come to that decision within such a short time, I never received reply).I remember few years before when Gates, were asked by a reporter that how much money have they spent for HIV work in India, they did not know even whether it was seventy or forty or hundreadmillion (Bill and Mellinda were disputing figures with each other as per reports), perhaps they being billionaires and richest person, hundreads of millions being guzzled away do not matter and it goes on with same hype, publicity and campaign for their programmes all over the World whether it is work for Malaria or vaccines or research, whether it is in India or Africa or any where else. We continue within our limited resources as much we can but only regrets are to know that even a decimal fraction of those millions could have made such a difference in our region for working there if they have just bothered to hear us. But that is how business is run and I am not a business man.I wonder if I could have e mail id of Flock and Ashok , director of the the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Indian HIV-prevention project or please guide me how to contact them or if this mail is forwarded to them and if they may like to know more. With regards and best wishes, Dr.B.K.Sharma, For Gwalior Childrens Hospital Charity (Regd. Charity No. 1063694), Snehalaya Trust & GHECT (India),14,Magdalene Road, Walsall, West Midlands. WS1 3TA (U.K.) Tel. +44(0)1922 629842 Fax. 01922 632942 Mobile. 07729929982 Email: Gwalior.Hospitalcare4free (DOT) net Website: www.helpchildrenofindia.org.

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