NGO NOT GIVEN MUCH ATTENTION

South Africa is one of the many countries facing an overwhelming development challenges education, health, poverty etc. It’s a problem that will never be resolved now but with the help of Non-governmental Organization we are heading to the right direction. NGO's did not exist in South Africa before democracy. When the new government came in power a pledge was drawn out for South African citizens, to help those who are in need in the sense of "UBUNTU".

An NGO is an organization that survives on its own it depends on the government funds and the public as a whole for surviving. We are very fortunate to have people willing to give their time on helping the less fortunate people in our country; we have seen so many NGO come in the past years. But with the lack of funding we have seen most of them shutting down. Wherever we go NGO's are facing finance problems, now if this goes on how will it help us on meeting the National Development plan for 2030? President Jacob Zuma mentioned in his recent State of Nation speech the need to put more effort on ensuring the survival of NGOs.

What will happen should the government fail to stick to their promises just like in the past years? Are we going to see more of our NGO shutting down what will happen to all the HIV/AIDS infected people, the orphans, abused women, drug addict’s homeless people and elderly people? Every time when the government does not meet its promises is the poor who feel the impact. What has lead to this epic disaster? What happened to the sense of UBUNTU the government has been preaching? It’s difficult for NGO to continue helping the nation if the government is not sticking to their part of the deal.