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Everyone wants to help the poor. The needy. Sometimes the ‘want to help’ is so large that the needy are helped regardless of them. Let us not get into the discussion of whether some NGO’s are in this just to make loads of Tax-free money. Merry go around pumps or Roundabout playpumps, are pumps which…
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