Cut foreign Aid to all countries a good idea

[Kofi]

Although they both fall under foreign assistance, emergency reliefs to disaster areas are quite different from the everyday foreign aid that rich countries like the United States, France, etc., send to poor countries in cash.

During the Haiti earthquake for example, so many countries around the world came together to help. Even the poorest countries in Africa opened up and made generous donations to help our brothers and sisters in Haiti. We are humans and that is how it is supposed to be. A similar thing happened in Japan just a few months ago. once again, the entire world came together to help. Even those who couldn't make cash donations, sent their prayers and condolences which is great.

We are humans and our Creator created us to love and help one another and there are several blessings in contributing to help the poor and the needy especially in times of disaster.

As I said earlier on, there is another form of foreign assistance whereby rich nations send huge amounts of money to poor countries thinking those monies help the poor and the needy in poor countries not knowing the poor in poor countries get nothing out of those monies sent.

I commented an article I read online a few days ago and in that article, the author was trying to paint Ron Paul (my favorite presidential candidate) black why because Ron Paul says he would cut foreign aid to all countries including Israel.

Someone may ask why on earth would an African support a candidate who would cut all foreign aid to Africa and leave people starving? The truth is that, African countries just like all other countries on earth benefit alot from emergency relief funds. However, the foreign aid that rich countries send to poor countries in Africa does the continent no good. It is just like taking the money from poor people in rich countries like America and giving it to rich people in poor countries in Africa.

In other words, the rich in Africa benefit from the everyday foreign aid while the poor gets nothing at all. Everyday you keep hearing foreign aid to Africa yet the poor get nothing at all. Those in the outside world think they are helping their brothers and sisters in poor countries but the sad thing is that, we your poor brothers and sisters in poor countries receive no help at all.

The point I am trying to make is that, if rich countries cut those foreign aid to Africa, it would not affect the poor in Africa in anyway. It would rather help because it would clear the notion that we depend on western countries to survive. In other words, it may enable us depend more on ourselves instead of depending on the outside world to survive. Israel alone (one country) receives more US aid than all of Africa combined yet some of us Africans think we cannot survive without US aid which is not true.

What do you think?

[WorldHQ]

Personally I think that foreign Aid to countries should be re-thought.
Like you well said, it is becoming more and more useless to send foreign aid in form of money, food, etc... to "poor" country. Because the rich benefit from it more and more. That's why those countries are going downwards.

So why not sending foreign Aid in form of managers, personel,etc.... Why not send in "people" ( with a little money help) to those countries.

like for example the Haiti earthquake, the world, and the united Nations have send in, money, food , water etc... But remember that it was only the capital ( Port-au-Prince) that was hit by the earthquake. The U.N. send food to the capital .... But what happens to the local banana farmer that had to walk 20 km a day to sell his banana's in the capital, he cannot sell his banana's so he isn't able to make a living anymore, and that how you ruin even more the economy of a country ......

I think that we need to send in commitées to countries that need help, for example, famine in Congo, plzz STOP sending money, the money only goes to the rich people because of the high level of corruption.
If we send in people that are qualified in managing crisis situation, they will be more efficient than just sending in money....

Do you understand what I mean?? I cannot express myself very good and the idea has to be elaborated, but I think that this is a more efficient way of giving foreign Aid, no?

[WorldHQ]

what do you think of that?

[Kofi]

what you are saying makes sense. However, there is a saying that "if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but if you teach a man how to fish, you feed him a life time".

Our leaders are very corrupt so yes we need good leaders. We need good managers, good personnel, etc However, sending in good leaders, good managers, etc. from abroad to come solve problems in Africa would rather worsen the already bad situation. In other words, nobody can fix Africa except Africans. We Africans are the only people who can fix Africa.

Let me use this as an example. There are contractors in Africa but anytime China sends in loans for road construction in Africa, China sends Chinese contractors to come do the job in Africa and then get paid huge amounts. So at the end of the day, China gave the loan for the road construction but Chinese people did the job and took the money back to China. Meanwhile, if African contractors did the job, it would have at least provided some jobs for Africans.
We need good training in Africa so yes we need good trainers from abroad but NO we don't need the trained from abroad to come solve our problems for us.

I like the example you used. the world is feeding Port-au-Prince meanwhile the world is silently killing the poor farmer who depends on the sales of his bananas (in Port-au-Prince) to survive.

[WorldHQ]

yes it are the Africans indeed that need so solve their problems, but as you said, the big problem is the corruption of the leaders.

They think:" I'm at power now so I need to fill my pockets because tomorrow I maybe won't be at such a high position anymore", is that what they think?

Why are they so corrupt ? is it a problem in education? How can we solve that problem?

if you give them more bread they will fold their arms and sleep all day. don't give them any bread. show them how you got your bread.

find other ways of getting the money to reach the poor instead of cutting foreign aid completely because there are many poor people in the world today who deserve foreign aid.