Comments on: Help Get Running Water to a School in Guyana https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/ Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:37:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: sailor https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549902 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 08:37:30 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549902 Congratulations this is now fully funded! My only concern with the project was that from my limited experience in Guyana, much of the Amerindian projects seemed to be in the hands of the missionaries. I tried to track this information down on the web but could not find anything about it being either religious or secular.
In the long run it makes not difference the school needs water.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549901 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:10:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549901 Bill: Like what? Do you know what five hundred dollars IS in a place where a day’s wage in a job where you get money is probably one dollar, or maybe a few dollars?

US takehome wages for a typical working class person may be something like 500 a week. In a socity where five dollars a week is a working class wage, 500 dollars is equivilant in US terms to 50,000. Maybe its equivilatn to onl 20,000. Maybe 100,000 Depends on a lot of factors.

]]> By: Bill James https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549900 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:23:54 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/10/30/help-get-running-water-to-a-sc/#comment-549900 Is there nothing these villagers can do to earn five hundred dollars?

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