Open Letter to Bill Gates
Today Bill Gates told the people attending the ICTD 2009 Conference in Qatar that Zimbabwe was not worth spending resources on as it is too far gone.
I disagree with his remarks and find them unfortunate. They have far reaching consequences for the people of Zimbabwe.
Below is an open letter to Mr. Gates explaining my thoughts. This letter just scratches the surface. I ask all Zimbabweans to contribute to this letter below by leaving constructive comments as to why he should change his mind.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does some amazing work around the world. This is not an attack on them, rather an effort to engage positively.
18 April 2009
Dear Mr. Gates
I have been following updates of your keynote speech at the ICTD 2009 in Qatar.
I would like, with respect, to disagree with your assertion that “Zimbabwe is not worth spending resources on as it is too far gone”.
If ever there was a chance to rebuild an African country so that it can become sustainable and a model for other countries to follow, this is it. Here is an opportunity to engage with the people of Zimbabwe to ensure the restructuring of the country is relevant, sustainable and meets the needs of the people.
I agree that there are still challenges Zimbabwe has to face with regard to the political climate, but real progress is being made in the country. The majority of people in the new government have a positive and enlightened attitude towards reconstruction and recovery. The government contains capable, intelligent and dedicated people. The main challenges are the negative perceptions of the West and the unwillingness of some people/institutions, internally and externally who can effect real change in the country to commit to this task.
Here are a few reasons why Zimbabwe cannot be discounted:
- Zimbabwe still has an infrastructure that can be quickly turned around using relevant technologies, processes and new thinking.
- Zimbabwe has many capable, educated people with the skills and the dedication needed to rebuild the country. Zimbabwe’s productive years were not so long ago that we have forgotten how to produce.
- There is willingness and an understanding from the top that Zimbabwe needs to allow conditions for private enterprise to grow on a micro and macro level.
- Zimbabwe has the natural resources and capacity to ensure continual growth and solvency with the right investment.
- Change in Zimbabwe has come about through an opposition’s commitment to democracy. Sacrifices have been made and are still being made for these ideals. However, the commitment to these principles stands the country in good stead.
You talk about the need for strategies, the need for process and the adoption of best practices. You understand that profitability is one on the most fundamental cornerstones of building sustainable communities. You ask: “If someone knows how to take philanthropic money and create good governance in Zimbabwe I’d love to hear it”. You have already provided the answers.
Zimbabwe needs a robust recovery plan. It needs to integrate and align all internal and external efforts and direct them towards a Zimbabwean solution. Most of all, it needs genuine assistance from foundations, institutions and governments with no hidden agendas and no “prefabricated” solutions. Zimbabwe does not need disparate efforts and good intentions; it needs a collective, collaborative and communicated strategy. It needs the leadership and skills that a foundation like yours can provide to work with Zimbabwe’s leaders, businesses and stakeholders to bring all the relevant players together. This will ensure that the resulting strategy is relevant, aligned to available resources and executable. Zimbabwe needs partnerships and dialogue, not handouts.
I share your view that an empowered population will be less dependent on government. They will have choices and options. They will have the resources to educate their children, pay for medicines and to feed themselves. A population that does not rely on the state ensures the state is answerable to its citizens.
I am saddened by your remarks in Qatar. You have the power to do so much good for the country, and you have the influence and the right approach to make a real difference. So many Zimbabweans have sacrificed so much to get to where they are today. To hear you say this on the eve of our rebirth is devastating and counterproductive. I ask you to reconsider your remarks, and I challenge you to reach out and engage with Zimbabwe in an effort to understand what we need and then decide whether you still feel it is too late for Zimbabwe.
Sincerely
Alasdair Munn
Zimbabwean.
I first visited Zimbabwe in 1984. I came there to meet a group of amazing white Zimbabweans who had moved out of Bulawayo into the bush to build the Community of Reconciliation with their black Zimbabwean brothers. It was an incredible sight to see how they had found peace with each other and reclaimed the land from abuse. In November of 1987, the 16 white members (children included) were massacred in front of the black members and the community destroyed. I just published a book (Saving Zimbabwe: Life, Death & Hope in Africa) that is available on Amazon US that tells the complete story and what I believe is Zimbabwe’s destiny. What they set out to do was in fact heal the land. Their example and model was working, they were making a difference. Their blood still cry’s from the ground, pleading with all Zimbabweans to take a long hard look at your own heart and see what it motivating it. Real change starts there. What plagues Zimbabwe is the condition of its heart and soul. Once that is right, profound change will follow. When the world sees a nation of people committed to rooting out corruption, selfish ambition and greed, they will rally to your side and help you rebuild your nation. Bill Gates is really not the issue.
With due respect Mr Gates, if you don’t have anything positive about Zimbabweans’ efforts to rebuild their nation, please don’t say anything.
Well said, Kelvin.
Gates is right insofar as Zimbabwe is a difficult and perhaps risky proposition (from an aid investment perspective, presumably), but he is entirely wrong if he believes there is no prospect for an immense turnaround. Zimbabwe has extensive mineral resources (an often mixed blessing in countries with governance problems), good tourism and agricultural potential (as demonstrated by productivity before the current crisis began).
But the country’s greatest resource is what is inadequately termed “human capital.” I have yet to meet a Zimbabwean in our extensive diaspora who doesn’t wish to go Home. This diaspora benefited from one of the finest education systems on the continent, at least. In addition to the highly qualified diaspora, Zimbabweans in Zimbabwe have demonstrated a more patient and thorough commitment to democracy and non-violence than many countries faced with such a depth of abuse.
It is certainly true that Zimbabwe is, to mix metaphors in the customary manner, yet again on a knife edge at a crossroads where it is hard to tell if the glass of the GNU is half empty (ongoing farm occupations, detentions, stealing Chamisa’s portfolio) or half full (some schools and hospitals reopening, a stabilizing economy, Mutambara publicly investigating the farm situation). Alisdair is, I believe, concerned about the path dependency of this moment, where Zimbabwe (having been abused through no fault of Gates’) could take a turn for the much worse (failure to pay the civil service, for example, resulting in strikes, military unrest, a coup even) in part as a result of a disinclination to fund the TERP/”humanitarian plus” goals of the GNU, formulated largely by the MDC leaders.
I am an eternal optimist, especially with respect to Zimbabwe, an unrewarding position this past decade, but I believe strongly that we have turned a corner. Tsvangirai, Biti, Coltart and their allies are simply younger, more energetic and less habituated to cynical corruption than their ZANU counterparts, and it shows in their work and what they are already accomplishing. It will take some time still to achieve some major goals – dislodging Gono, restoring credibility to the justice system – but that doesn’t mean that we are still moving in the wrong direction. It will also require careful, thoughtful funding from international sources (where on earth is SADC and their various cheque books now that Zimbabweans have accepted the deal SADC itself foisted upon them?) to pay doctors, teachers, rubbish collectors to continue to improve the lives of Zimbabweans and prepare for a legitimate election.
Bill Gates did not get Zimbabwe into this mess, to be sure, but he can extract her, or at least not make a difficult situation worse.
I am terribly disappointed in all the Zimbabweans who continue to feel that nothing can be done until ‘Uncle Bob’ and his undesirable elements are removed from power. I am even more disappointed in those Zimbabweans who have negatively expressed (in not so many words) their wishes for Zimbabwe to fail. Yes, we all know that Robert Mugabe must go. However, we cannot sit and twiddle our thumbs until the ‘old man’ falls dead. We need to act right away for our children’s sake. The elections may not have ousted ZANU-PF but that is no excuse for us to support the destruction of Zimbabwe. Remember the saying, “A stitch in time….” Change must be initiated now. Famous people like Dr. Bill Gates have the power to promote the change we need so we must encourage them to have a positive image of our country. Zimbabwe, even in its current state is not all bad. Instead, it is a mixture of both good and bad, just like any other place on earth. We must continue to believe in the land of our birth. It is certainly admissible that the rule of law is disreputable but I believe that the “new and effective” part of the leadership must be propped up for complete change to occur.
Many Zimbabweans have fled their native land in pursuit of better earnings. A huge chunk of Zimbabwe’s workforce is now living on foreign soil because our own country cannot pay them what they are worth or give them enough money to live on. A good number of them are trained professionals but they have given up their white-collar jobs or respectable trades to engage in menial work in order to support their loved ones who are still in Zimbabwe. These jobs, most of the times, do not provide security for their retirement. Therefore, we must not sit back and expect these Zimbabweans who have been feeding the nation; (buying food at exorbitant prices, paying school fees, sending foreign currency etc) to come back home to live poverty. We should not expect them to come back to a country that’s been run down by the lack of interest or withdrawal of funding by the international community. These Zimbabweans are also “fighting the fight’ in their own way. It takes a lot for a trained Math teacher to be cleaning floors or making fries art MacDonalds. We need to lure these Zimbabweans back home by improving the conditions in our country.
In this global economy, we must work together to eliminate poverty and disease. As we say in both Ndebele and Shona respectively, “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu and Munhu munhu navanhu.” As previously said, the West is not directly responsible for the current political situation in Zimbabwe but they cannot completely wash their hands off of the mess. Most of these super powers have caused and financed conflict in Africa. They benefit from the rich minerals found in Africa and I do not doubt that either Microsoft or Dr. Gates himself have benefited in some way. If not, then I would like to also confirm that Microsoft has benefited from business in Zimbabwe. Think about all those internet cafes that have been set up in the past few years or so. Don’t they have Windows on them? “Kandiro kanopfimba kunobva kamwe.” This Shona idiom simply means that one good turn deserves another and I hope Dr. Gates realizes that.
My motive in writing this is not to criticize or attack Dr. Gates. However, I wonder if he has ever stepped on Zimbabwean soil. I have lived with, worked with and met a number of Americans who fell in love with both Zimbabwe and its people instantly. Zimbabweans are very friendly and warm especially to foreigners. It is a well-known fact within southern Africa that the vast majority of Zimbabweans are very hardworking.
In 2007, it was estimated that Zimbabwe had at least a 95% literacy rate in English and a highly educated adult population. The xenophobia in Botswana and South Africa over the past decade or so has partly been fuelled by these factors as well as the superior standard of work ethics that most Zimbabweans carry. Really, one does not need to be knowledgeable of the local culture or to be a Sociology scholar to understand how hard Zimbabweans push themselves during difficult times. Despite the empty shops, lack of a dependable currency and lack of adequate transport, Zimbabweans have managed to survive very harsh conditions. They will pay their emergency taxi fare “through the nose” and be at the bus stop by 4:30am to be on time for their job at 8am in times of petrol crisis. If not, they will walk or cycle the ridiculous number of kilometers to get to work. They will do all this for salaries that can barely feed them let alone clothe their children. No matter what, they will do their best to overcome whatever obstacle is in their way even if their own human rights are being neglected.
I would like urge Dr. Gates to rethink his statement. I urge him to visit Zimbabwe and to spend sometime getting to know its people. Zimbabwe is a beautiful country and it is definitely worth investing in. It is not only worth investing in its economy, but health and education too. The infrastructure and required skills already exist. What more to you need?
Mr. Gates
Zimbabweans are smart, motivated, and peace-loving people. Many other countries would have swiftly descended into civil war, given the political and economic tragedies we have witnessed. Still, the Zimbabwean people have consistently sought peaceful, collaborative solutions to the nation’s problems. We should be rewarded, not punished. Arguing politics and regime change is a moot point now, in light of the real starvation, the real hunger, the real emotional turmoil of the population. It’s time to help and collaborate, even if the situation may not be ideal. You have a lot of power to help. Please give us a chance.
Andrew
Thank you for adding value to this discussion. A good balanced view which articulated some of the issues.
Bob
You have brought to light one of the issues that many people do not see. Zimbabwe is a spiritual land. the people of the world in general have lost touch with this aspect of their lives. I am not talking about religion or sects, but being in touch with the earth or the essence of a place. It is hard to do this when we are all distracted by the stresses of living. It seems counter productive to those who are looking to reason and logic to find solutions. That is not to say that reason and logic should not be used. It should be used in context. What is reasonable and logical to me will not align with what is reasonable and logical to billions of other people.
Great insight Alasdair! Thanks for the post. I find it amazing and shameful that they are people who claim to be Zimbabweans BUT are ready to give up on the very same country! What a shame! Where would be Germany today if people had given up on it? Zimbabwe has vast deposits of natural resources, and one of the most educated population in Africa. Not only does it have to potential to get back to its original status in the Continent but has the capacity to pull out of the Third World status! No matter what BillG says the World cannot ignore Zimbabwe! With the discovery of diamonds and lithium deposits that are classified as one of the World’s largest and easiest to mine, surely any person without a hidden agenda can see the potential for this country!!!
ajmun i am not looking at Zimbabwe through Mugabe’s eyes i am looking at what is happening and a tendency of people to avoid the real issue, we have people who assume if you cannot work with Government you can work around it but that has failed.Perceptions do not just spring out of nowhere do they? i am not a supporter of a political party but when i see a country that is burdened by a government that is neither effective of one it cannot afford.Many countries that have faced our problems took some really painful decisions and sacrifices they were not buying Mercs and appointing 71 member governments that they expect to be funded by taxpayers from other countries. And can you explain how this government adressing property rights when one part of government says farm invasions can continue and another saying they will investigate when they have little power to prosecute. As for cholera patients i am sure relatives of the people affected will feel much better when money intended for their benefit is diverted to pay civil servants because the people in the department regarding sewers and the lot are city councils. In any case the inability of teh government to pay its salaries is a problem of their own making not of a victim of their wise policies of having ZINWA run the council activities when they clearly cannot. Now we hear Mbeki is once again arbitrating between the principals about the Bennet and Chamisa issues how can a country function that way when every problem requires us to turn to South Africans. I have given government a chance i am looking at what they are doing, you on the other hand are disregarding the evidence in front of your eyes and dealing with hypotheticals and what you hope the government will do.I never said stop investments to Zimbabwe our own actions will take care of that with no help required which is something you are trying to avoid. My suggestions to that GNU if they want to be taken seriously will be to immediately reduce that monstrosity of a cabinet to 20, restructure parastatals and sell the non core ones, liberalize a lot of the important sectors in the economy before they start approaching governments that are dealing with economic crises themselves.No one wants to subsidize waste and inefficient governments that will not work. Those teachesr will be paid if a lot of money wont be wasted towards non core activities.Again ajmunn look at the evidence before you and reality not what you want to be the case
DB No one is disputing that there are problems. (I need to copy and paste this) (Oh wait, I have)
Many of the problems you talk about are legacy problems. They can never be rectified over night and they will not be rectified if the proper resources are not put in place. You make the suggestion of cutting the amount of ministers in the cabinet. How exactly? Is that really going to happen? A wonderful “hypothetical you are dealing with there and what you hope the government will do.”
Many of the issues you are dealing with here have been talked about in previous posts. The status quo will not change if fundamental issues are not addressed and the GNU is unable to make progress. The old guard do not want progress as they know they will loose their grip. Should we fall into their plan so easily? Do you really think they do not know what they are doing by destabilising the GNU?
Very Unfortunate,
It is very unfortunate that Bill Gates got it very wrong on Zimbabwe. What exactly does he say of suffering Zimbabweans? That they are a right off?
I do not think we should care about him and all his ideas. He should just stay and stear clear of Zimbabwe and I agree with Trudy, if someone has nothing to say about Zimbabwe such a person should just shut up.Gates is not destiny unto himself ‘… Zimbabwe has gone far off… ‘ this is a big guff and very undiplomatic so cruel a statement.
I always suspect that this philanthropy facade is just show… Milton Friedman was right… business people have no right in distributing wealth. Part of his profits, may be a very small bit, but a finite bit came from Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans in every part of the globe are working hard and contributing to the wellness of the World, they are not militant but hardworkers and he thinks they are a right off.
Mr. Gates, I think we do not need your money nor your advice. We did not need it in our darkest moments, 1965-1979, neither do need it now.
This is where you miss the point Just Lyphe, we are saying that if the Goat has nothing to do to Zimbabweans with his hard earned money as you put it, let him choose not to. He is wrong in saying that … Zimbabwe is way to far…. That is the thread of the arguement here. I do not not think that Zimbabwe is way too far. Honestly I do not think America is way too far off as well, though it is close, nor any other country. There is hope in this World even in the face of adversity like that befell all Nation in WW2, Cold War and now in the Global Warming Era.
For a man who prophecy to lead a charity Foundation to go up on a podium and say a certain 7 year old in Silobela or Chivhu is a way too far off and can not be assisted is beyond anyone’s comprehension- the billy justt got it wrong.
Roger Stringer you are very wrong with your fact about that “ZANU(PF) has spent the last 29 years making sure that Zimbabweans remain ignorant and uninformed by controlling the media, restricting freedom of expression, and removing access to information.”
I am a Zimbabwean who is equally critical of ZANU(PF) but the last 29 years were more productive than the years prior to that period. That is if you are considering the Black majority as the subject we are refering to as Zimbabweans here. This is where we all got it wrong on Zimbabwe in the last 10 years, most commentators think of Zimbabwe not in terms of the most vulnerable but in terms of a farmer who has no record of how he got a 1000 hectare estate and who had access to resources during the minority rule and who had no will to participate in any meaningful land reform. Some facts are unpalatable but true. Before 1980, there were written laws that partioned resources unequally between different races is a skewed arrangement that favours one group, very few peole got proper access to education, after that thousands acquired higher and good quality education and as we speak Zimbabwean professionals trained after 1980 are in almost evey part of the globe in every sector at every level-and you call that darkness. Nobody really want or care about understanding the real issue in Zimbabwe and least of all Gates. I do not really care whether he should understand but I am saying if he is of no use, let him stear clear of issues he that has no use to him, he may lose credibility unnecessarily.
Zimbabwe is a handshake away from restoring its financial and economic prosperity. Ok a handshake and an election. Every effort has to be made to protect the chances of Zimbabwean population to dust themselves off and not be relegated to the scrap heap due to no less than irresponsible commentary. The effect of negative speculation by George Soros in the late 1990′s fueled the swift decline of the Indonesian economy. For a country which is reeling from so many ills (natural and regrettably man-made) one would hope that the “philanthropist” would have the presence of mind and the restraint not to reduce the plight to of a worn populace as some joke, point of emphasis or form of shock therapy to make sure the audience is awake.
If Bill Gates is genuinely looking for answers then we should give them to him. The question he might be asking is a tough one ie “How does one ensure that donor money gets channeled towards good governance”. The answer may lie amongst some of the following: a.) pay the bad governors either to do their job properly or to get lost b.) re-educate and re-orient the populace c.) ensure that proper checks and balances (support the development of non-governmental and quasi-governmenmtal organisations which have oversight) are instituted in ensuring the correct utilisation of funds d.) establishment of ear-marks e.) support restoration of the educational sector f.) insist upon the non-politicisation of aid g.) insist upon the constuitutional review and reform h.) help support the democratisation process and next election.
On the other hand if Bill really meant that Zim is beyond redemption then I am going out to get some bootleg Windows software before I go out and get me a Mac.
Kelvin Parker comes to me as a person who has taken his time to understand the real Zimbabwe and its people. I have come across many people who claim to know Zimbabwe but got disappoited midway in their misunderstanding. Zimbabwe attracts a lot of attention and interest because of its resources and beauty. I have been to many countries and I say here that there are many countries that are more beautiful and have more resources than Zimbabwe.But is has its own charm-the people.
The biggest gift that the country has is its people, unfortunately they are the most abused by World ignorance of the problems that bedevil the land. Unfortunately Bill seems to have joined the easy path, not the difficult path taken by Kelvin.I do not want to cheapen Kelvin’s contribution by complementing it, but as a Zimbabwean, he who wears the shoe and who knows where it pinches, there is a ring that is familiar in is story.
” The stone that the bulider rejected has become the cornerstone”. I was tortured and imprisoned by the Mugabe regime during the struggle to regain freedom for our land. That struggle is not over because there remain forces that wish to retain priviledge under the patronage system that has been entrenched for 29 years.
I am not naive to believe that dislodging an evil system it is straight line trajectory. I am proud to be in the boxing ring, along with others, and have enormous respect for Morgan Tsvangirai’s determination and focus to achieve the twin objectives of democratization and economic recovery in the shortest possible period. Those that believe that we cannot be rescued are welcome to their opinion and I trust that they are wrong.
I agree with Bill Gates, Zimbabwe is broke and with Zanu PF still lingering around , it will be waste of resources to invest in Zimbabwe.
We have more sereous countries with better plans like Mozambique, but without resources. It will be wiser to invest in these countries as a way of boosting their efforts.
Sean, thank you for your well written letter to Mr. Gates and his dear wife Belinda.
Let me be on the side Mr. Gates is standing on our dear Zimbabwe which has been racked by Zanu. It will only be a turn around for our Zimbabwe when we stop to meet on the world page and form real coalition. There is disintergration in Zimbabwe.
Why?, because for a country, region, province, city, family, or even a village to recover if it had disintergrated like our country, there is serious need for unity of purpose. There is completely nothing of that sort in Zimbabwe at the moment, and may be in the near future.
JOC is united for an evil campaign, Zanu has been united for an evil campaign but all will be disintergrated and some signs are already showing. NCA is now left out by the opposition and many other civic groups to make the decisions that made strong oppositions in Zimbabwe. That is very serious disintergration my brother Sean.
I know very well that our culture in Zimbabwe does not want to be corrected and is the reason that got our dear Zimbabwe where we are today. It is an African culture if I may go further. It happened in Rwanda, Siera Leon, Zaire, and Kenya is failing what we are trying in Zimbabwe.
Mr. Billgates might be very right but just because he is white and not Zimbabwean we might take it negative. Let us try to be in his shoes.
I have been doing my best, still, and will do whatever it will take to help my country.
regards
Nicholas Nickson Mada
US based activist
Alasdair, a wonderful letter. Thank you. I have sent it on to many. Love Ish
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What concerns me deeply about Bill Gates comment is the lack of hope for a suffering people, regardless of the leadership surely we as zimbabweans deserve motivation support and encouragement. Even in the event of a civil war in any country the last thing that should be said is “there is no hope let them suffer.” I think you embarked on a crusade against zimbabwe with good intention but along the way you have become detached from the suffering of the very people you wish to save. Bill in the mist of your millions you should bow your head in shame as the shona say “Uno Fanira kunyara”
Thats really sad from someone so well respected in society. The comments are not helpful. Being a Microsoft professional myself and a firm believer in Microsoft, I feel rather shocked by such comments. On the other end however I have seen a trend among most respected people in society – business professionals and politicians alike to rush into making certain comments about things they really don’t understand about Zimbabwe. Unfortunately because of these people’s positions and influence what they say just serves to cast a dark shadow on Zimbabwe. May I say this to those who will read this comment;
The situation in Zimbabwe is very difficult for you to understand and make decisions just by watching and reading news reports. If you don’t know our story you you will just write us off. To know our story you really need time to talk to Zimababweans or come to Zimbabwe. So many people have come here and have been surprised – most people who hear the reports first and then come here will not believe it is the same place. Most think the reports were exagerated – though most are true. The reports, our story and our grief is about where we fell from as a nation. We regret that we fell from properity to near poverty. We regret that a few politicians abused the economy and oppressed people who had and still have so much potential to take off like rockets. This is our pain and grief. We regret that when the winds of change started blowing a few politicians tried and are still trying to block the tide – although they are doomed to fail, time has run out for them and change is inevitable. We regret that a few politicians for their greed and love to plunder have polarised our lovely nation and sown seeds of hates, violence, tribalism and racism – which thankfully we all can see, since our sun started rising. And we today as Zimbabweans firmly believe in ourselves, our values and have no doubt about our potential hence we know that we will rise.
The story is Zimbabwe is still a beautifull country regardless of all the evil that has happened. It is abundant with resources.
May I say this. Most people from developed countries were born with a silver spoon in the mouth as far as freedom and peace our concerned. Sadly, they have forgotten how peace and freedom were acquired centuries ago. It is from the depth of such ignorance that they speak. They have forgotten that the fight against evil can not be won in a day – but will always be won. They have forgotten about faith and hope – all becuase they had everything when they were born.
People of the world, ours is a struggle for the above freedoms and rights but it is almost won. You don’t know this because you are not in the fight and you were never in any fight of this kind! So please if you don’t have something positive to say about us especially at this time. Please don’t preach it. The battle is almost won, we know it and we believe we have a way to win it.
Dear Mr.Bill Gates,
Hi myself Govind from India.I m 22yrs old. I completed my Bsc(computer science). But I am unemplyoed due to Recession and now I totally forgot all my knowledge. So I m changing the field I m doing MCSE. Can I get a good job by doing this course. I m not rich. I m very poor. But I want to be little rich so that I can support my family. I want to stand on my leg. And want to show this world that I m not poor. I want to do something for my family and poor people. Because I m poor I keep aside all my wishes. First I want to fulfill my parents wishes. I don’t have faith in God. I want to show God that
I m not a poor person. I love one Girl but she is rich and I m poor and also I dont have job, I love her very much but I know she cannot be mine. But I want her for that I want to become rich. So please tell me what can I do to become rich. If I cannot become a reponsible man the only way is to do suicide. Sir
Thanks and Regards
Govind
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