Aid to Africa?

Stopping all the aid to Africa won’t help end poverty. On the other hand sending aid and doing nothing else won’t help poverty as well. Decreasing the money spent on the aid and spending that money on long term solutions will help. There many problems with the aid that is sent to Africa. Aid is not always distributed properly and not every part of the country has equal access. Politics gets into this, governments use it as a source of power and distribute is anyway they want. Moreover, aid creates addiction and people eventually stop trying to produce on their own if they can easily access the aid. The solutions to poverty can’t be short term. They should be long term solutions so that after a while Africa can be independent of the aid and the support and can be self-sufficient. At the times like natural disasters, aid is very crucial. Other than that, it makes the people “aid- dependent”. When the president of Niger refused the food aid, every one reacted but he actually had a point. He pointed out that the number of deaths did not decrease at all, therefore aid doesn’t really help. The solution is sustainable development. To make this happen people have to be healthy, therefore stopping all the aid is not the solution. Aid is a partially helps but it alone is not the solution. In conclusion, giving away a lot of money to relieve conscience is not right. The solution has to long term. Sustainable development has to be archived. The most important aim should be; Africa being self-sufficient. Otherwise, sending aid and doing nothing else won’t help at all.