Sunday, January 20, 2008

aid to africa?

I think that aid is basically essential for Africa in order to abet Africa for developing itself by providing adequate living standard for people and reducing the level of hunger and poverty.
Aid is more given to Africa in order to keep people alive by providing enough food and health service. It is a need for supplying basic needs to Africa. Moreover, aid helps many children manage to escape from the violent streets and HIV and Aids after British aid to Africa. Thus, this kind of limited aid is really essential for Africa in order to help it for enhancing its development process. If we think that true development can happen in the long term and the basic requirements for development are education and health, this limited aid to Africa can really useful for this development process. However, I read articles about the aid to Africa through my reading of Web Quest and some of them reveal that “aid should be doubled”. At this point, I don’t believe that the aid to Africa should be doubled, because by this way I think that Africa would become more dependent on other countries and more like colonial or servile. Furthermore, the doubled aid could make the gap between the countries more deeper and cause unequal relationship between Africa and other nations. Also I want to add that aid is not only solution for Africa in order to make it one of the developed countries, because if it was, Africa would complete its development process.

Throughout the Web Quest, one article emphasizes that the cash only helps people to survive and it can not help Africa to develop in economic means, if we consider the today’s Africa such as factories without fuel supply, goods in wrong place, and lack of roads in order to trade within the countries. Thus, aid can only make people survive and have education in order to prepare and raise them for being the ones who would be brave enough to alter the destiny of Africa and make their country have the prosperous and full independence in the future.
In conclusion I believe that limited aid is actually necessary for Africa in order to develop itself and reduce the level of poverty.

1 comment:

Sonja Tack said...

Good work. The organisation could be better.

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