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The Campaign Of A Fund Raising Project

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He began a fund-raising project. The goal was a dozen laptops and a server for a school. It would not be any ordinary school. Not one run by the government or dictated by Al Qaeda or the Taliban. One that is open to education for all. As he researched Pakistan, their culture, and the people, he began to fall in love with the nation. Money poured in from various sources. Companies donated computers. Smaller churches did what they could. It wasn’t long before he had both the airfare and the equipment. His research was still not over. People who have known poverty all their lives bring with them some issues. Trusted ministries told him to show caution. It’s not beneath leaders to receive gifts from the West only to sell them after the donors leave. They justified their actions by saying, the daily needs of a child is more vital to their future. Those people are the ones who feed a man a fish every day. Tank 's main concern is in teaching the people how to fish. In that way, they would know how to feed themselves for a lifetime. When people in the East have nothing, they look to the West and envision only dollar signs. When he took computers to India, they donated them to the ministry school. In that way, if the teacher using the computer left the ministry the equipment would stay with the school. That bothered some people. All they wanted was personal gain. Other ministries wanted to set up unwarranted, meetings for him. Naturally, Tank would be the one expected to cover the

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