Tampa Bay Times: In Tanzania, Clinton Foundation trades on maize and beans, not its name

[riversedge]

I am glad that this is getting local coverage in battleground state of Florida





In Tanzania, Clinton Foundation trades on maize and beans, not its name
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/in-tanzania-clinton-foundation-trades-on-maize-and-beans-not-name/2292077


By Jon Greenberg, Times Staff Writer

Tuesday, September 6, 2016 6:00am




A group of women help harvest maize in Lupembelwasenga, Tanzania. (Tara Clerkin/Clinton Foundation)



MAWAMBALA, Tanzania — A world away from the questions about pay to play, the links to foreign governments and talk that the Clinton Foundation is, as Donald Trump puts it, a "vast criminal enterprise," Jackson Kipati walks down a path to a field of dark dirt where he has just planted brown beans.

In the next field, a woman hoists a large hoe over her head, driving it into the ground over and over. The bright sun hits a nearby collection of low brick homes and the small village office built of mud stucco walls and capped with a metal roof.

Here, the calculus of what the Clinton Foundation is, and means, is measured in sacks of maize and rows of crops.

Because of the foundation's intervention, the 62-year-old Kipati upped his maize harvest from seven sacks to 20. And Kipati didn't just boost his harvest, he got a better price at market. The extra money helped send his children to better schools, put a new roof on his house and plant a row of pine trees to sell as lumber a decade from now.


......................................... But concerns over the source of funds exist side-by-side with the real gains the foundation delivers around the world.

The farming project in rural Tanzania is a window into the signature Clinton Foundation style that attracts millions of dollars in support on one end and creates market-driven opportunity on the other. To understand the foundation requires looking at both...................great article...............

Road to market.............

[NewJeffCT]

1. great story - but, Republicans don't care

about dark skinned people in Africa if it can help them win an election in the US.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. More research is needed

Are the crops seeded, sprayed with pesticides and fertilzed by Monsanto and other corporations who profit? Nothing wrong with a profit in my book, just making sure the environment for the future is protected.