From the article: Best Books on Aid for Africa
Do you think aid helps or hinders development in Africa? Do hand-outs encourage dependency and corruption, or are people truly benefiting from a helping hand. Share your thoughts on the pros and cons on the various types (humanitarian, developmental, etc.) of aid for Africa. Share Your Thoughts
When it gets there...
- Aid can help, but very little of it gets to the people in need, thanks to the monotonously slow process that foriegn humanitarian aid has to go through. Plus, Africans who need aid must count on the insurance that the supplies will not get stolen, or even worse, destroyed before it gets to its designated area. Its just really hard to when or how the aid will get to everyone who needs it.
- —Guest Coleycow
Ulterior Motives
- Aid doesn't help Africans. Firstly due to most of the countries providing the aid always want something in return or have their interests in the receiving country and therefore its not really aid. Secondly, even truly genuine aid becomes concentrated in the hands of a few and does not get to the intended sector.
- —Guest Brave Saronga
Aid Not Helped Africa
- Aid hasn't and will not help Africa. I have one thing to say to the donor, don't just give fish to Africa people, teach them how to fish. So in time they will learn and help themselves. Help to build a school or training facility. Somehow, someway people will learn.
- —Guest mequanent
Aid for Who?
- Aid may hinder or help African development. If [the whole of] Africa unites and works together they may make real their long dream. Otherwise [there should be] no foreign aid help for Africa to develop. But [we must ask the] difficult question 'Why Africa is still undeveloped?'
- —Guest tesfaye
Aid Aids Corruption
- Sapa-AP reports the $21.7 billion Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis & Malaria had two-thirds of grants eaten up by corruption. Donated drugs end up being sold on the black market. Aid is not getting to the people who need it.
- —Guest Anna
AID To Africa
- For hundreds of years Africans have been exploited by foreign interests. The so called "aid" is no more than retributions.
- —Guest WSnellings
There is Corruption not Co-operation
- Africa is not developing because there is corruption, less educated people and no co-operation. If only we would use our wild life and minerals and culture and conserve all things we have we would probably say it will be the richest.
- —Guest Natascha Monde
No
- Aid is not helping we Africans and it is time we stand up and help ourselves or else we will continue to suffer. This is the time we can about the African unity that our fathers dreamt of. Let us unite and move forward in the right direction. We have to let them know that the era of slavery is over and Africa is Africa, and that we can be self sufficient and we do not need their support.
- —Guest alhassan abdul-baqi
I Dont Think Africa Needs Aid
- We, the Africa's youth of today, don't think that Africa needs aid simply because it weakens the African working spirit thus production. What I think Africa needs is transformation industries and tools to boost up agriculture and other sectors which is the backbone of the worlds economy. There is a Bantu proverb that Lumumba used "the hand that gives is the hand that directs." We the African don't need aid but a "WIN TO WIN PARTNERSHIP" we are sick and tired of the so called aid which is truly just a word.
- —Guest Bassong Mendi Eric
Aid Always Helps
- The Aid Africa receives helps them to develop their rich minerals and resources in abundance to help their citizens prosper. The book I have Written 'Letters to Africa and Beyond' is a clear demonstration of what needs to be done for the Continent of Africa to over come centuries of rape and plunder.
- —Guest Larry Parker Sr.
Aid is not sustainable
- It does, but for a short time. In the long run, Aid creates a state of dependency among beneficiaries. What should happen is that people must be given aid (food, housing and shelter) while at the same time they are being empowered to do things on their own. I believe that development is centred on Julius Nyerere words: 'if development has to take place, people must be involved.'
- —Guest Caiphus T. Mahumani
Corruption Problem
- Aid, in my point of view, helps just the governments and not the people who are in need.
- —Guest adama ndiaye
