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Forcing its belief?That entire “article”, if you could call it that, is a piss poor excuse for a journalistic piece. The Hindu and its allied liberal brigades have been after Akshaya Patra Foundation (APF) for some time now solely because it is run by ISKCON which is a Hindu organization. Now I have zero affinity towards the latter, by APF in itself is one of those handfuls of NGOs that are actually having a positive impact on the society.They serve a friggin 1.7 million schoolkids in India every day. And yet, have they ever tried to convert those kids to the Krishna mission? Or coerce their parents into joining? NO!The Hindu article quotes 4 kids out of those 1.7 million and makes a sweeping statement that “Karnataka’s schoolchildren unhappy with the mid-day meal”. 4 out of 1.7 million is a trend now.And you know what the kids’ objections were? “too bland”, “not tasty”, “too pheeka”. Since when have kids become the rightful judges of what is good for them? I used to hate tomatoes and spinach and karela when I was a kid. For a kid, anything sugar is good. Anything with a lot of tang. Is that fucking healthy? Do the people who wrote this allow their kids to pick their own meal?The foundation has made it clear that they do not serve food with onion and garlic because it is against their beliefs. When the organization was targeted by local activists and the Karnataka Food Commission, it duly complied and sent samples for quality and nutritional checks to the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN).Last December, when the food commission learnt of APF’s refusal to follow the ingredient list, it asked the government to send a notice to APF. “We pulled them up for disregarding the MOU,” a government official said on condition of anonymity. “We asked them, when every other NGO is following the menu, why can’t you. They then submitted documents that said the ingredients they used in the preparation of the food do not compromise on the nutritional requirements of the meal and that there are adequate substitutes for both onion and garlic in their meals.”The State Government sent these documents and APF’s menu for a review by the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) and the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) — which brings us to the present day.In February 2019, NIN gave its formal nod to APF’s menu and said: “The nutritive values of menus with ingredients used in the mentioned amounts certainly meet and often exceed the prescribed energy (Kcal) and protein requirements prescribed by MHRD (Ministry of Human Resource Development) for the MDM.”Should have been the end of the discussion, right?Nope.They called upon some “experts” to sign a petition (which is how things are done now, I guess). And then called upon NIN to withdraw its report.Think about how fucking devastated and morally bankrupt one has to be. You go to the authorities and when they clear charges against your target you go back and get a bunch of your equally jobless friends and sign a piece of paper and ask the authority to withdraw its comments because they did not fit your fucking agenda.Experts ask NIN to withdraw report favouring Akshay Patra“The National Institute of Nutrition, to our utter shock and dismay, has made sweeping statements praising Akshaya Patra Foundation, without carrying out any systematic scientific study. No empirical data was collected on the quantity and quality of ingredients used or amount consumed and amount wasted by children to certify food supplied by APF as nutritionally adequate,” says the letter signed by 10 organisations and 94 individuals.“You know, I am the omniscient, omnipotent deity that you all so love. So, I can’t be wrong. Hence, the NIN is wrong because their conclusions did not match mine. QED!”If you think their is no ulterior agenda here, think again.APF hurts one group the most — the Christian missionaries. They can now no longer lure people to their side with a couple of bags of rice.See this “health expert”.Even sterilised gowns and instruments are 'hygienic and clean" - why doesnt everyone just eat those? https://t.co/cjaGIV5ePa— Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (@sakie339) June 3, 2019Started off with a tongue-in-cheek comment on the hygiene part.Actually the Church is one of the few institutions that REALLY DOES charity in India. They dont take tax payers money from the government & pretend its all charity so that their followers will donate in lakhs and crores. Hats off to the Church for its service to the poor in India https://t.co/eZ2l6JsZZU— Dr. Sylvia Karpagam (@sakie339) June 5, 2019Ended up praising the Church since they are “one of the few truly charitable institutes in the nation”.A similar incident had happened late last year when the Government of Odisha had requested APF to include eggs in their mid-day meals.The Foundation declined citing the same reasons — it did not fit in with their beliefs. But later they all came to a mutually beneficial arrangement. APF will bear the cost of the eggs but it would be the duty of the State government to procure and prepare and deliver them.Odisha finds a way to serve children eggs at mid-day meals catered by ISKCON-linked NGOBut in an order dated November 11, 2018, Odisha’s school and mass education department said that Akshaya Patra has agreed to include two eggs per week per student in their mid-day meal in all schools under its service area. The order specifies that the NGO will not supply boiled eggs to schools directly. Instead, school managements will ensure that eggs are procured and boiled and Akshaya Patra will bear the cost.District Education Officers have been directed to deduct the costs of the eggs from the cooking allotment paid to Akshaya Patra.Karnataka could have done the same.But they chose not to. And instead malign a foundation that is feeding millions of hungry kids every day. The government itself said that they don’t have the budget to include eggs in the menu.Umashankar, however, said the government has no budget in the scheme to provide eggs. “The money we get is barely enough to sustain the existing scheme. There’s no talk of eggs as of now. The State Government is providing hot milk as part of its scheme. That’ll have to do for now.”APF runs a fiscally very tight ship. Of every 100 rupees donated to them, 92 is spent on the program, and only 8 is management expense. That is 92% utilization.[1][1][1][1]Also, they are able to feed one kid for an entire year on just 2800 rupees a year, of which half is through donations and half through government grants.Compare this to an org like PETA that many celebrities endorse.[2][2][2][2]They get about $50–60 million in donations every year, but spend only a small fraction actually doing what they claim to be doing.This is their 2015 Financial Statement.Of the $45 milion in expenses, $16 mn (35.5%) was for professional services and consultants (the celebrities they rope in from time to time), another $10 mn (22.2%) was for salary and other staff costs.$7.5 mn (16.7%) was for media and promotional activities (the useless campaigns they run, the shock-value protests they carry out). $3 mn for media (6.7%). All of this amounts to 81%.The overall expense that pertains to actually rescuing and caring for the animals or to further the cause of animal rights is very low (a part of operating expenses and donations to charities - about $4mn in total) which comes to about 6–8%.The Foundation has recently partnered with the Michel and Susan Dell Foundation[3][3][3][3] to provide safe drinking water and regular health checkups to school kids. The recently served their 3 billionth meal.[4][4][4][4] That is three meals for every Indian alive right now. It took them twelve years to serve their first billion, four for the next, and three for the latest. At this rate, they might serve another three billion meals before 2025. And more power to them!Independent studies by AC Nielsen and Harvard have concluded that the foundation has had an amazing positive impact on the Indian society.[5][5][5][5] [6][6][6][6]When AC Nielsen performed an impact assessment, they found increased enrollment, better health, and improved performance among students who received school lunches, especially among the female students. For example, the report showed a 13.8 percent and 34.2 percent improvement in enrollment for boys and girls, respectively, in participating Bangalore schools.I am actually glad that these dimwits, self-proclaimed saviors of the masses have started this campaign to malign the foundation. Of course, their fragile egos are chinking away. What will they do one day when there remains no hungry kid to feed, no naked poor soul to photograph, no penurious Indian to lure to their side with the promise of food and salvation.But their actions have brought spotlight on the foundation.Do you know that the foundation could do with more donations? And that those donations are tax-exempt under 80G?Yep. You can support 3 kids per year by donating 3300.Let’s make this happen folks!Footnotes[1] How your Donated Money to Akshaya Patra is Spent?[1] How your Donated Money to Akshaya Patra is Spent?[1] How your Donated Money to Akshaya Patra is Spent?[1] How your Donated Money to Akshaya Patra is Spent?[2] Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to What do you think of PETA's tweet to stop the use of anti-animal words?[2] Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to What do you think of PETA's tweet to stop the use of anti-animal words?[2] Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to What do you think of PETA's tweet to stop the use of anti-animal words?[2] Deepak Mehta (दीपक मेहता)'s answer to What do you think of PETA's tweet to stop the use of anti-animal words?[3] Water ATMs: A 15-school pilot could pave the way for sustainable solutions[3] Water ATMs: A 15-school pilot could pave the way for sustainable solutions[3] Water ATMs: A 15-school pilot could pave the way for sustainable solutions[3] Water ATMs: A 15-school pilot could pave the way for sustainable solutions[4] PM Modi Serves 3 Billionth Akshaya Patra Meal to Children in Vrindavan[4] PM Modi Serves 3 Billionth Akshaya Patra Meal to Children in Vrindavan[4] PM Modi Serves 3 Billionth Akshaya Patra Meal to Children in Vrindavan[4] PM Modi Serves 3 Billionth Akshaya Patra Meal to Children in Vrindavan[5] AC Nielson Case Study[5] AC Nielson Case Study[5] AC Nielson Case Study[5] AC Nielson Case Study[6] Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact[6] Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact[6] Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact[6] Affordable School Lunches: Breakthrough Innovation, Measurable Impact

Over 10 years ago I bought three vintage suitcases (over 100 years old) at various second hand stores and flea markets. When cleaning one of them I found a Panama Canal Medal in an inside pocket.I learned a lot about the canal and the men & women who built it. In addition to the heavy manual labor involved, the heat, humidity, Malaria and insects were oppressive. In their time off, there was nothing for workers to do except drink… and many became alcoholics. Eventually a pool hall and theater were added. Local labor was used as well as the US Army since the local men were accustomed to the conditions and the soldiers assigned to the Canal Zone had no choice but to stay. Going AWOL was pretty much out of the question as there was no way to return to the States. For civilians who signed on voluntarily to work there, most left after a few weeks or months.Of over 50,000 men and women who worked on the Panama Canal, only 7,404 received this medal, and 3,885 of those received a bar indicating the four years of service. The one I found, Roosevelt bronze medal #5205, was awarded by President Roosevelt for 2 years (1909-1911) continuous service building the Panama Canal; the bronze service bar #3228 was added for two additional years of service (1911-1913). Name inscribed on the medal: W. H. StoneI noticed several Roosevelt Panama Canal medals for sale on eBay and online coin shops at prices ranging from $500 to $750. I believed that the owner was unaware the medal was in the suitcase pocket when he sold it. I also realized that if he was old enough to be working in Panama in 1909, it was impossible that he would still be alive over 100 years later. The extra money would have been nice but I decided I would not sell it until I had done everything in my power to reunite the medal with the family of the man who earned it. Little did I know the search would take me nearly 10 years. Every time I seemed to hit a wall, I stopped the search for days or weeks and sometimes months, until I came up with a new idea or another approach.I tried fruitless searches using various terms on Google and Facebook. I didn’t want to advertise that I had the medal for fear that someone would falsely claim it only to sell it. I really had no idea how to find descendants of someone who lived over 100 years ago when I knew nothing about him (or her??) except initials and a rather common last name. No full name, no birth date, no hometown, etc.When my sister took a cruise through the Panama Canal, I sent the medal inscription information with her and requested that she query the canal expert who was lecturing on board how I might locate the rightful owner’s family. He didn’t know, but referred me to the George A. Smathers Libraries’ Panama Canal Museum Collection at the University of Florida in Gainesville.Online, at the George A. Smathers Libraries website, I found an entry for William H. Stone on page 188 of the Panama Canal Personnel Records matching his medal number. So at least now I had a first name in place of initials. Still, the search would have been so much simpler if he had a less common first or last name. There are many, many people online named William Stone including the governor of the colony of Maryland from 1649 to 1655, and a William Henry Stone who was a patriot during the American Revolution. Neither of them were related to the medal’s owner.I eventually found his canal Service Record Card online through the genealogical records of the Church of the Latter Day Saints. I gleaned bits and pieces of information and unrelated factoids about him along the way, but made little progress in locating his descendants.A message from Rebecca Fitzsimmons at the George A. Smathers Libraries in response to my voicemail there suggested that I contact the Archives in College Park, MD, which keeps construction period records on personnel employed by the Isthmian Canal Commission, Panama Railroad Company, or the Panama Canal from 5-4-1904 through 12-31-1920. However, she noted, they did not keep records on workers once they left work in the Canal Zone so would probably be unable to help me find anything about his living descendants.Weeks passed. I finally received a response to my email from an Archives Specialist at the National Archives Building in College Park MD stating that their Panama Canal records had been relocated to the National Archives in St. Louis, MO and suggesting I contact them since they also had military records and many Panama Canal employees subsequently joined the military.I contacted the St. Louis Archives. They reported that they had no relevant information but referred me to the National Personnel Record Center archives website. There I read: “On July 12, 1973, a disastrous fire at the NPRC destroyed approximately 16-18 million Official Military Personnel Files. The records affected 80% of the records on Army Personnel discharged November 1, 1912 to January 1, 1980.” According to a notation on his Panama Canal service record, William H. Stone was discharged in 1919 so that was most likely a dead end. (Hmm… I had to wonder: How could a fire in 1973 destroy records of personnel discharged in 1980?)I followed up with a phone call, hoping William H. Stone’s records were among the 20% that were not destroyed in the fire. The administrative Aide I spoke to took lots of information from me that she said she “would relay to staff who would get back to me in a couple of weeks”. Six weeks later, I received a letter stating that they do not provide services to locate living individuals. (So, does that mean that they provide services to locate dead ones?)Once I’d learned that “W” stood for “William”, a Google search of “William H. Stone”with “Panama Canal” turned up an entry on a William H. Stone, Jr. which, in spite of his name being the same, his being the right age to be William’s son, and having joined the Army to serve in the Canal Zone, turned out to be a red herring. No relation at all. Dead end.I had already determined that William was not in the Army between 1909 and at least 1913 while in Panama. He had to have worked on the Canal as a civilian since only civilians were awarded the medals and military personnel working on the canal were specifically excluded from receiving them, as they were “just doing their jobs”.Beginning 8-24-1909, at the age of 28, he worked on the canal for at least four years from that date to earn the medal plus one bar. The last entry on the service record lists him as a Deputy Inspector on 2-1-15. Per the service record, he was a machinist in the engineering department who was initially paid 65 cents per hour, but it appears that was gradually increased to either $1.75/hour or $175 per month (which is the equivalent of about $1.10/hour if he worked a 40-hour week). From the record card, it’s unclear whether he had been a Lieutenant Colonel in the Army prior to work on the canal or joined the Army after 2-1-1915. However, it’s very unlikely that he was already a Lt. Colonel by age 28. More likely, he attained that rank after his work on the Canal. It notes that he was discharged from the US Army on 6-21-1919, but subsequent information on his military tombstone shows that he fought in World War II so either he was not discharged in 1919 or he joined up again after that.At this point, I was stuck. I posted a question on Quora: “How can I locate and contact descendants of Lt. Col. William H. Stone (born 11-3-1880), a machinist who left his home in San Francisco to work on the Panama Canal from 1909 to at least 1913?” I received only one response but it was a great one. Alan Moll responded with links to the tombstones of William and his wife Annie and their mortuary records.From these links I found photos of their headstones in the Golden Gate Natl. Cemetery in San Bruno, CA and their precise dates of birth and death, plus the mortuary records provided the name and address of their son, and more.William Henry Stone, born 11-3-1880; died 9-9-1962 at age 81California Lt. Col. US Army, US Army, World Wars I and IIHis wife Annie Stone, born 6-23-1882; died 9-26-79 at age 97 (She died in Coral Gables, FL but she is buried beside William in San Bruno. Her inscription is on the back of his tombstone and they didn’t bother to include her maiden or married surname,)Alan informed me that “a search of Google Books showed that William was a member of the Board of Local Inspectors for the Panama Canal in June 1916.” William’s Panama Canal Service Record card (above) lists him as "Deputy Inspector" there on 2-1-1915.It was Alan Moll who discovered and shared with me the links to the headstones, the mortuary records, and other valuable information. I’m convinced that my search could never have succeeded without his help.From the mortuary records I learned that William Henry Stone’s father, Thomas F. Stone, and his mother, Ellen Fallon Stone, were both born in Ireland. Thomas came to the US in 1859. I was never able to learn if he came directly to San Francisco at that time, perhaps for the Gold Rush, or whether he settled somewhere else in the US first. In San Francisco, he was employed by a company that made gold dredging machines. By 1870, the US Census located him in San Francisco, but his whereabouts between 1859 and 1870 are unknown, at least to me.I eventually learned from his granddaughter that William Henry Stone was the third son in the family and it was traditional for the third son in an Irish Catholic family to become a priest. He did not want to do that, so he ran away from home at age 15 and lied about his age in order to join the California National Guard. That would have been 1895 or 1896. By 1909 when he went to the canal zone, he had been discharged from the National Guard. He must have joined the Army at some point after he received his 4-year bar in 1913 since the army inscribed on his headstone that he fought in both World War I and World War II.All these facts were teased out one at a time from information I found online. Each document or narrative that gave me an additional fact allowed me to do another search by combining it with previously ascertained names, places, or other information.William Henry Stone’s only child, William Francis Stone was born 6-4-1916 in Ancon in the Canal Zone. William Francis Stone was living in Los Angeles in 1935 and was single and living in Berkeley in 1940. He married Joyce Ellen Horgan (born in San Francisco 7-11-1918; she died there on 9-28-2003) who was a single medical assistant in 1940, living in San Francisco. And they had six children. Only their firstborn, Pamela A. Stone survived. Sadly, the other five babies were either stillborn or died the same day they were born. (Twin girls 8-22-1952; a boy 6-8-1953, a girl in July 1954, and another girl 8-25-1957.) William Francis Stone died 5-6-1992 in San Francisco.Their daughter, Pamela Ann Stone, was born in San Francisco. She married and at 22 she had a son, Francis “Frank” also born in San Francisco. She and her husband divorced when Frank was young and she eventually relocated to Fresno, CA. Frank earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis. While a student there in the mid-late 1990's, Frank was part of a group working on "Future Car". From their report cover I found the names of the classmates he collaborated with and tried searches using his name with each of theirs in an effort to locate him.I found a 2005 post where his friend Del mentioned that Frank was known as Frank the Tank and that he had moved from northern to southern California. He was working for a firm which makes shock absorbers and Del stated that Frank was a supporter and fan of racing and all things with wheels.Another friend mentioned the name of Frank’s fiancée and that they were planning to marry in Puerta Vallarta in late 2008. When I did a search with Frank’s name and his fiancée’s, I found their engagement announcement in his fiancée’s hometown newspaper.From a forum thread started by Frank’s friend Fred, I learned that the wedding was lovely but there was a tragic accident at the reception when Frank jumped into the pool and woke up days later in a San Diego Hospital, a quadriplegic.I located a record of Frank selling his home, which provided his mother Pam’s address in Fresno. A fairly simple search then yielded a phone number and I learned she was back in San Francisco. We met shortly after that and I was finally able to return the medal to the family of W. H. Stone. Pam shared wonderful memories of her grandfather and planned to pass the medal on to her son.Her happiness at receiving her grandfather’s medal and my thrill at finally solving the mystery meant far more to me than the money I might have gained by selling the medal.

MayotteTL;DR at the endThis Indian Ocean island doesn’t really look weird from the looks of it, but its political status is one of a kind.Some towns and cities here:(Mamoudzou)(Mtsapere)(Kaweni)(Koungou)(Sada)Some images of life on this island:Some of the natural parts of this island:The demographics of this island are 97% Sunni Islam, and around 3% Roman Catholic and irreligious.The people of this island, smudged right between mainland Africa and Madagascar, as part of the 4 major Comoran islands, are a Bantu tribe, meaning their ancestors come from Central/East Africa. Many of them have some Arabic or Southeast Asian ancestry, due to common contact and trade with the Arab world (it is through Arab trading that these people had contact with people from Malaysia and Indonesia). As Bantus, these people mainly speak a dialect of Swahili called Shimaore (although a minority do speak a Malagasy-derived dialect called Kibushi).The island is known for growing vanilla and ylang-ylang.So you may be thinking this is probably some country you never heard of. Maybe it’s a part of Somalia or Kenya or Tanzania or some African country.Nope, that’s what is weird about this island. This is France.(after the election to become a French region and its 101st department)(Sarkozy meeting with local Mahorans)And I don’t mean some territory-like status, like Puerto Rico or the Cayman Islands. Mayotte is one of 18 regions of France and one of 101 departments of France (regions are like states in the US and India and provinces in Canada). Mayotte is France.As an integral part of France, this island is also an integral part of the European Union and as France is an integral part of the Eurozone, and Mayotte is an integral part of France, Mayotte is in the Eurozone as well and use the Euro.So how did this island with GDP per capita of €8,200 ($8747.35 at the time of writing this, around the same as Morocco, Armenia, and El Salvador) and a culture so unlike France become an integral part of the nation?Well I could start with colonization, but that part should be obvious, as France and the UK colonized pretty much everywhere. So it is best I go about this by describing 4 different, yet important years for Mayotte.1974After a lot of pressure, France decided to grant the option of independence to the 4 Comoran islands: Anjouan, Grand Comore, Mayotte, and Moheli. However, the islands would individually have to vote for independence, and only the islands that voted in favor of independence were going to be granted independence. In this independence referendum, all the islands except Mayotte voted largely in favor of independence, with over 99% of the voters in each of the other three islands voting in favor.In Mayotte, this was not the case. 63.22% of voters in Mayotte were against independence, which largely had to do with the fact that the French favored Mayotte over the other Comoran islands, and Mayotte had a longer history with the French as it was colonized earlier.In 1975, France recognized the independence of the Comoros, which consisted of Anjouan, Grand Comore, and Moheli.1976Mayotte, being culturally identical to the other Comoran islands, was given another option to leave France and join the Comoros after a lot of pressure. They were given the Mahoran-Comoros referendum. It was expected that Mayotte would leave France, but some events just happened to change that.The Comoros, after independence, went into complete turmoil. Just under a month after independence, the first president of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah Abderemane, was overthrown.(Ahmed Abdallah Abederemane)To make things worse, just a month before the Mahoran-Comoros referendum to join the Comoros, the Comoros were hit with another coup, where Prince Said Mohamed Jaffar was overthrown by Minister of Defense Ali Soilih.(Ali Soilih)In the time between Soilih’s takeover and the Mayotte status referendum, Soilih enacted disastrous socialist policies in the Comoros. The people of Mayotte thought, why should we leave a stable, secure, and prosperous country for a tumultuous and poverty-stricken one? Who cares about the similar culture? In the ensuing referendum, about 99.42% said they did not want to become part of the Comoros.In that same year, just a few months after, Mayotte had another important referendum over whether they wanted to have an overseas territory or not. Over 97% said they did not. So in 1976, France decided to give Mayotte the designation of an overseas collectivity,2009We have to wait over 30 years for the next change in status for Mayotte. In these 30 years, the Comoros have faces extreme turmoil. They had had over 20 coups, horrible economic policies, and a civil war. Things got so bad that in 1997, Anjouan and Moheli temporarily declared independence from the Comoros and begged France to take them back (a request that France rejected, citing the 1974 referendum). In those 30 years, the Comoros became one of the poorest nations on the planet.Meanwhile, Mayotte just remained stagnant. It did not get much poorer, as they had just enough money sent from Paris to get by. However, life in Mayotte was not nearly as good as it was in Metropolitan France. While Mayotte, through its association with France, was much better off than the Comoros, had an over 25% unemployment rate. Not only that, but many poor Comorans from the nearby island of Anjouan illegally immigrated to Mayotte, which is just 40 miles away, to escape their crushing poverty. The Mahorans started feeling ignored by Paris and wanted more involvement in French affairs. It was time for them to become an integral part of France, they felt.Nicolas Sarkozy, in his 2007 run for the presidency, promised the Mahorans that he would give them the option to become a department and region of France. There was lots of support in Mayotte for this referendum, with almost all major political parties backing it, with Mahoran legislator Abdoulatifou Aly arguing that, "We may be black, poor, and Muslim, but we have been French longer than Nice." The only real opposition was through the qadis, who resisted the French common law that was going to replace the Islamic-based laws of Mayotte, and local imams who were against France’s anti-polygamy laws.In 2009, the Mahorans were given this referendum, and over 95% voted in favor of becoming a department and region of France.2011It’s 2011, and Mayotte has officially become the 101st department and a region of France. It had also entered the European Union and Eurozone.So now you know how this island where more than 63% of people cannot speak French (yes you read that correctly) became an integral part of France. So what’s going on in this island today.Mayotte is now home to a massive refugee crisis that nobody seems to talk about. With the impoverished Comoros nearby, Many Comorans flock their nation in order to go to Mayotte to find work and earn some money back home. Hopefully, they can even find a way to get into Metropolitan France. However, way too many Comorans have come illegally to Mayotte. It is estimated that nearly 60,000 people, or around 28% of the island’s population, are illegal immigrants from the Comoros.Many people from the Comoros are very poor, and come to Mayotte in boats called kwassa-kwassa, which look like this:These kwassa-kwassa boats are run by human smugglers, who take the lifetime earnings of so many Comorans, promising to bring them to Mayotte. So many Comorans, who are fed up with the horrible and truly nightmarish life in the Comoros, where people are starving and dying of disease, dream of earning Euros, sending their kids to world-class French schools, and having access to French social security and welfare programs.The problem with all this is, it is very tough for these Comorans to get into Mayotte. The waters in the Mozambique Channel are rough, and many of these small boats, that are overcrowded with illegals capsize in the water, with many drowning and dying. The only chance these people have after the kwassa-kwassa boats have capsized is if the French coast guard finds them and sends them to a detention center. These are the measures people will take to get out of poverty and constant conflict.The French gendarmerie is very strict over what has to be done with these Comoran illegals. They immediately seize them and send them to detention centers, which are often overcrowded and have horrible conditions.(Mayotte detention center)And the natives Mahorans, who are culturally so close to the Comorans, want absolutely nothing to do with the Comorans. Often times, if a Mahoran sees a Comoran, they will immediately report the instance to the gendarmerie. There are many cases where the local Mahorans will go in mobs and find the Comoran that may be hiding in their village. The see them as stealing their jobs and many Mahorans are highly xenophobic towards their African neighbors (in fact, only in Mayotte could you find Muslim leaders supporting Marine Le Pen).After these illegals get caught, they get deported. However, any of their children born in France are not deported, and this has caused another huge issue in Mayotte, where a lot of these French-born children of illegals will be given citizenship upon reaching the age of 18. It is estimated that more than half the school population in Mayotte has Comoran background, and many of these people live without parents.France is trying to develop this area and is slowly phasing in French law and replacing old Islamic and traditional laws. They are going through a re-education program and are hoping to get a Francophone island within the next 30 years. France is also investing in heavy infrastructure projects and sees potential in the island, which has a very young population and the highest birthrate in all of France’s regions.TL;DRFrance owns a weird Indian Ocean tropical island called Mayotte where only 37% of people can speak French and most people speak a dialect of Swahili. It is significantly poorer than the rest of France but significantly richer than its nearby African nations. It has a huge unspoken refugee crisis.