On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[email protected]> wrote:
> Over the last year, he said, he and corporate benefactors like Exxon > Mobil have donated 10,500 flashlights to United Nations refugee camps > and African aid charities. > Dave Gardner, a spokesman for Exxon Mobil, said the company’s $50,000 > donation in November grew out of an earlier grant it made to Save the > Children to build six public schools in Kibala, Angola, a remote area of > Kwanza Sul Province. Nice flashlight, but rather ironic that exxon mobil is funding it. They funded the civil war in Angola for more than a decade. Perhaps they would not need the flashlights if exxon hadnt placed millions of dollars into the hands of the warlords.
