Vicky Ntetema, BBC chief of the Dar es Salaam office wrote in the "Sunday Newspaper" in Tanzania a story about the death of HIV/AIDS patient Veneranda Sanga in Makete. The story is all about failure of the Tanzanian Government to controll criminal elements within the Lutheran Church of Tanzania. This faith based organisation is running public institutions, receiving public and international donor money on behalf of the poor, but can for the lions share of the funds not show how they are used.

Fact is that criminal Lutheran Church involvement killed patients and violated human rights by forcefully closing a well working health service and by stealing money from the poor. Since years neither ELCT nor donor missions are able to explain the situation and/or to show if their monies are used for the intended purpose and whether funds are accounted correctly. Up to date, nobody has been held responsible for the destruction of african societies by donor money. People die and the whereabouts of the funds are completely unclear. The involvement of German Lutheran Missions is obvious: Their representatives decide about the transfer and use of funds every year on the basis of mostly non existing accounts!
For that purpose they are jetting round the world.

They do not know and frequently obviously do not want to know how the donated money is used.

Vicky's article can be found under the following link:
http://www.piuma-simba.org/site/2009/03/13/416/