Your Tax Dollars at Work
From Wednesday's Toronto Star (emphasis mine):
Kenyan Girl Guides help battle disease
Girl Guides in Kenya are earning merit badges for promoting abstinence programs to their female compatriots as part of a U.S.-funded strategy for AIDS prevention, reporters were told at a news conference yesterday. "We enhance abstinence among the youth in schools and also in the community," 18-year-old Girl Guide Ranger Millicent Achieng explained from Nairobi during a video conference at the U.S. consulate in Toronto. The guides program has given out abstinence-promotion badges to 2,000 girls who learned they should abstain from sex until marriage and be faithful to their husbands after. The program will receive $200,000 (U.S.) this year from U.S. President George W. Bush's five-year, $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, also known as PEPFAR."
Sounds great. Except...
From Wednesday's Toronto Star (emphasis mine):
Kenyan Girl Guides help battle disease
Girl Guides in Kenya are earning merit badges for promoting abstinence programs to their female compatriots as part of a U.S.-funded strategy for AIDS prevention, reporters were told at a news conference yesterday. "We enhance abstinence among the youth in schools and also in the community," 18-year-old Girl Guide Ranger Millicent Achieng explained from Nairobi during a video conference at the U.S. consulate in Toronto. The guides program has given out abstinence-promotion badges to 2,000 girls who learned they should abstain from sex until marriage and be faithful to their husbands after. The program will receive $200,000 (U.S.) this year from U.S. President George W. Bush's five-year, $15 billion President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, also known as PEPFAR."
Sounds great. Except…
Figure it out, guys. It's not that complicated.