Comments on: Lesotho: a case study in sticking it to the poor http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/ Just another WordPress.com weblog Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:05:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared Simpson http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-2174 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:54:36 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-2174 Nice thought, Alex, but don’t hold your breath.

]]> By: Alex Koshy http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-2173 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:38:58 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-2173 Thanks for the information. I was in South Africa recently and was not even aware of the geographical location of Lesotho(and Swaziland). I wish that somehow things are rectified and the people of Lesotho have access to their own water. They should have access it and not have to pay dishonest vendors for what is rightfully theirs.

]]> By: junkyardcrew http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1818 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:02:05 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1818 i was actually searching for info on snowboarding in Lesotho, however an interesting read none the less.

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]]> By: S. Gosnell http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1228 Mon, 26 May 2008 00:20:03 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1228 The reason for my looking up (and, thanks to you, finding) meaningful information about Lesotho is that I’m becoming involved with Partners In Health, an organization committed to providing quality medical care to some of the poorest people in the world. I have recently heard two stories (one of a woman whose body was devastated by childbirth & who was flown to a fistula hospital in Ethiopia, and the other of three girls — ages 10 and under — who are destitute and shunned by the community after they lost their mother and younger sister) that pretty much left me grief stricken. I feel compelled to learn more and do something to redress this imbalance.

]]> By: Jared Simpson http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1037 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:03:38 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1037 Thanks for response and correction. I thought I’d caught all the misspellings of Lesotho, and who knows where I got the Besotho business. Before I researched for the entry, I would have called you and your language Lesothan, so it’s not as bad as it could have been.
Congratulations on the poetry prize.

]]> By: Rethabile http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1036 Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:04:59 +0000 http://waterblogged.info/2007/12/02/lesotho-a-case-study-in-sticking-it-to-the-poor/#comment-1036 Nice and informative. Good job. Please notice that we’re Basotho (I’m a Mosotho), we speak Sesotho, and we’re from Lesotho. Typos in your post. But what the heck, the content is pretty accurate.

Basotho, even those who live in the vicinity of the dam(s), have neither water nor electricity. I guess that’s what you call sticking it to them.

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