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The scale of development aid given
by aid organizations in various countries in Africa is very
unbalanced, but there is often a good reason for that, for
example the rigid church culture of the Christian region
of northern Ethiopia was established by a king 500 years
ago and still exists in a way, that nothing will change there
in the next 100 years without a major effort, while the Moslems
in Mali are very open for change. In Ethiopia there is much
more change in the external image of the cities than in Mali,
but there is no change of thinking, which is happening in
Mali. Mali is changing without education from outside. However,
it would be good if people would be aware of these differences,
because it is making awareness and consciousness within Africa
possible, which only few people have (in west Africa), and others not even want
to have (Ethiopia).
We could bring this awareness and
consciousness to Africa, but we also have to create an awareness
of African values in ourselves, and especially have to act
in accordance with that consciousness. Awareness of everything,
for the other (unknown), for development and for the consequences
of our actions for others. This is the most important thing
if we want to change something, because only then proper
action for the situation is possible. And if that happens,
we are participating in the development of the world, and
then the development of the World can take a new dimension,
which consist of individuals taking independently responsibility,
who create an unprecedented community (through which new
possibilities arise for all people), in which mankind can
become one, so that all on this earth can live (together),
which otherwise would not be possible anymore.
This step is necessary, because the
situation in our world is now changing in a way, that without
this step there is no possibility of survival in this world,
which is caused
by our past actions. We have created the problem, but we
can also create the solution, which would make the World
a beautiful place. It is now irreversible, environmental
change, population density and resources etc., and the conflicts
and one-sided ways of thinking (for groups of separate minorities).
The awareness and consciousness for our development, as the
development of the entire world as one community must happen
now, and through this, God will unfold and act in a whole
new dimension on this earth, not as a lord and unreachable
entity, but specifically in every person (through us) although
unimaginable, but understandable through the fact that with Gods consciousness,
we also become part of God. This is not something outside
of us, this is something in us, to which we can be committed
and which we can serve.
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