Second Class

After a lot of motivation and excitement form the first class to learn English, I went for the second class vary happily. I had also completed the assignment of writing 150 words report on any topic. My second class was on 16-June and that was second birthday of my professional life so without thinking much about topic I decided to write 150 words on my professional experience. You can see separate blog post on this topic.

This time teacher come up in the class with a documentary and the subject was “War by Other Means” more specifically “Financial War”. Even in this war peoples are killed but without bullet and specially women and children became target of it. just to summarize the documentary in my words, it was a war by developed nations against developing nations by giving them loans through World Bank and IMF and then getting lot of debt on loan. It was a case study of Philippine which was facing energy crises similar to Pakistan. World Bank proposed a solution to built atomic energy plant with the help of load from World Bank and a US company “General Electric” was selected to build the plant. Money came from US and went back to US and Philippine became victim of loan. The plant was built at a place highly vulnerable to earthquakes and was not able to generate even 1KW of electricity. At the end result was that Philippine was spending around 50% of its budget for the debt of its loan and poverty increased up to 70% of its population. Most of the people were living on pieces of paper and plastic from garbage which was the only source of their income. Health conditions were so bad that after every hour a new born child was died as a direct consequence of debt.

I went happily in the class but when I left the class I lost my happiness and come out with upset mood after two hours of discussion about poverty and other similar unpleasant things.

At the end of the class we were given another assignment to write a 150 words report on “Alleviating poverty in Pakistan”.