stories from maldives

inside - Death of my dad.He died of chronic renal failure. This required renal transplantation and haemo dialysis. We do not have adequate medical personnel to cater a population of over 200,000 and Maldives been a developing country, lacks modern techno-medical facilities.
outside - Poor health services and lack of higher educational facilities in a country not only affect an individual but the entire nation.
future - IT dominated life.

Solah Rasheed <962455u@fcs1.rgu.ac.uk>
Male', Maldives - Friday, December 20, 1996 at 14:02:06 (GMT)


inside - Looking after nature is a responsibility for all of us and recently when I went for snorkelling I've found that a reef which was badly damaged due to removing corals being revitalised. This inspired me because when I saw the difference after 5years it's marvelous. Let's give a big hand to the president M. Gayyoom of the Rep.of.Maldives for caring the nature and ....... making this a peaceful place to live.
outside - It's Internet mania and I was affected because I can't afford the high Internet charges here in the Maldives. To get an idea of what I'm talking heres more:- If you want to get connected to the Super Highway for registration you have to pay US$100.00 and a monthly fee of US$25.00. It's not all.... you got to pay US$0.20cents per minute in peak time (0800pm - 0800am) and US$0.15cents per minute in the low time (0800am - 0800pm). I'm badly affected by this local event....... No matter what it is you can't live without Internet.
future - 100 years from now life would depend on computers because you need a computer for everything. No doctors, No teachers, No Schools etc. When you buy a computer, pre-installed Doctors, Teachers, Schools, Universities etc could be bought. Remember! all you need is a computer.......

Badruddeen Naseem <Badr@wwdg.com>
Male', Maldives - Thursday, December 12, 1996 at 02:39:46 (GMT)


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