Sunday, November 25, 2007

Aid to Africa?

Food aid is necessary to be sent to Africa in nowaday’s situations there despite it’s not an actual solution. There are many reasons for both stopping and continuing to sent aid to Africa.
Firstly, I want to start telling about the unequality of aid’s distribution. Some countries don’t have any effective governments to reach development aid . For example, while Somalia and Democratic Republic of Congo couldn’t have aid, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda, are already receiving around 50% of their budgets from aid despite they aren’t in a very hard situation. Then, it should be considered that aid creates a dependency on having prepared needs for Africans and sending aid continual doesn’t give a chance them to be encouraged to produce new products. Thus, they have been getting a habit of waiting help without working, struggling. When they lose their self-confidence, it’s a good state for Western aid donors to set their majority in Africa. The conclusion from that reason is unequal relationships. It’s certainly clear that only Africans can change and improve their countries by raising taxes so they can prevent powerful countries benefiting from this situation.
On the other hand, despite all disadvantages of food aid it’s a real that most of the people in Africa need them to alive. For preventing bigger troubles and mortalities that comes from hungery, diseases like HIV/AIDS etc., food aid should be continued to sent for a while and in this while the projects should be started to apply like investing in agricultural projects in Africa, encouraging people to produce, giving education to let them to have conscious about lots of things to develop theirselves.
As a conclusion, food aid isn’t a fundamental solution to end poverty in Africa but it should be continued for a while that people have a higher life conditions than now with bringing into force projects that I mentioned about.

1 comment:

Sonja Tack said...

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