Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Aid to Africa?

I think that the aid to Africa is actually necessary for helping Africa in order to develop itself and diminish the level of poverty and hunger in country. Aid is the charity that aims to enhance the life standard in Africa and supply basic needs to Africa in order to hamper poverty and hunger. Therefore this kind of aid keeps people who are struggling to survive alive and helps to maintain their dignity as human beings. Moreover aid is determined as a life support system that not merely supplies food for hunger but at the same time leads so many children to have education and access well health conditions. For example, hundreds of children manage to escape from the violent streets and HIV and Aids after British aid to Africa. Thus, this limited aid that is included with education and health might be required for Africa in order to complete its development process, because as we think that the development is a long-term process, the first basic requirements for development or gaining prosperous in social, economic and political means, are education and health support.

On the other hand I believe that this kind of aid should be kept limited and it should not be doubled, because by this way Africa can not prevent itself to be depended on the other countries that apply aid and Africa might turns out to be slavery-like and suffers from the colonialism. Moreover the aid is not the only solution for Africa in order to complete its development process. One of the articles that I have read though Web Quest underlines that if aid could make Africa prosperous, it would have done so by now. Moreover, if we examine the today's Africa such as wells in wrong place, factories without a fuel supply, roads that were not maintained, we can realize that cash only helps people survive and be alive. Till there is an unequal relationship between Africa and other countries and a barrier in trade that impedes Africa to sell its goods, aid can not help Africa in order to develop itself in economic and political means. However, I think that aid is only necessary for Africa in order to make people survive, diminish the level of poverty and make people experience the basic structure of education and health support.

1 comment:

Sonja Tack said...

An impressive rewrite.

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