About the Starvation in Africa.?

Question

Don't you think if all money donated to Africa to fight starvation was really send to them, Africa wasn't starving anymore?

With all celebreties, concerts and Institutions, using the africans childrens starvations to collect money to be donated to them....don't you think, the problem by now, already suposed to be solved....I still have in my mind "The We Are The World" song.

Answer 1

The continent of Africa is huge.

In response to the person who said "they're living in a desert"-you obviously have never looked at a map or taken a geography course. A huge amount of Africa is on a coast or in a jungle. Africa is enormously diverse.

In response to the person who said that over-population is the problem: You've got the wrong impression. In some areas of Africa, a full third of the population is dying of HIV/AIDS, leaving only children and elderly behind. Birth control, while important, is not the main issue here. These people need solid education, without the interruption from wars and famine, and medication. If these two things were addressed, starvation would be a thing of the past, a ghost of a nightmare.

Consider looking at www.Heifer.org for more information.

Answer 2

I think that most of the money is getting there. Obviously, there is corruption, so some of the money and aid is getting diverted from those who need it. Most of these countries have no concept of a stable government and economy (only having experience with corrupt dictatorships and not having enough international connections to make larger strides towards modernization and economic stability).
That being said, I don't think we are getting anywhere just throwing money at the problem. We are suppling the man with fish instead of teaching them how to fish for themselves. They are starving because the ground is either poorly suited for crops or has been worked to nutrient deficiency by making the same crop year after year without rotation.
I think that if effort were made to help them develop their own agricultural resources, they could eventually support themselves. As with the majority of humanity, the Agricultural Revolution helped mankind develop stability and national durability. This is what Africa needs most of all.
As well, Africa could develop more pointedly its tourist economy, considering that it is the one place where more of what the world calls wild animals (tigers, lions, elephants, etc) come from. This would mean the development of consistent laws and unified law enforcement, so as to punish poaching and the lawlessness of groups like the Jajaweed gangs.
Just my 2 cents worth.

Answer 3

those are HIPC (heavily Indebted adverse international places): Angola The Gambia Rwanda Benin Ghana Sierra Leone Burkina Faso Guinea São Tomé and Príncipe Burundi Guinea-Bissau Senegal Cameroon Kenya Somalia major African Republic Liberia Sudan Chad Madagascar Tanzania Comoros Malawi Togo Congo Mali Uganda Congo, Dem. Rep. Mauritania Zambia Côte d'Ivoire Mozambique Ethiopia Niger Zimbabwe @ To the answerer above, South Africa does no longer fall into this class.

Answer 4

I remember after bush won the last time he was speaking of giving billions to Africans to fight poverty plus the UNHC has a budget of 1.2 billion to feed 19 million refugees. I've heard of warlords stealing the food drops and then charging people for the free food that we gave them. So, so, sad.Something needs to be done.
One problem is that the powers that be in those areas begin to kill other tribes off like genocide because there isn't enough food. another is the borders of countries have changed so though they haven't moved the new country there in doesn't fill they're needs so they migrate to they,re old country only to be turned away. 1 in 5 children die before the age of 5 of malnutrition and related disease. The world needs to stop turning a blind eye and wake up.

Answer 5

What about the starvation in America? There are problems everywhere in the world and there always will be. Not all of the money goes where it is needed but that is the way it is.

Answer 6

the first few answers i read are the reason we have people starving to death in africa .MOST americans do not have a crip on what is happening there.IT is not just the land not producing crops some times it the system of food distribution.THERE is wide spread religious and political segragation and racism .Many must flee there native land in order to live forcing friendlier nations to absorb millions more then they have the ability to feed .mudd huts and grass roofs is the way these people have lived and many were nomadic with borders and border protection many have been traped in areas that produce very little vegitation under the best circumstance.
we need to feed millions and supply simple medical treatments and vaccines for these people and to simply ignor the problem is wrong .
We need to work with the governments and assist the people with irragation and clean drinking water to supply food to help them till the harvest come in .there is plenty of land to grow crops on it is just getting them to do it when at any moment the land and food can be taken from them by the government.
THEY live in conditions no people should have to ,,-human rights issues have plagued them as much as drought and pestilance and plagues .
We can do something have our government go in and provide wells for drinking and irrigation provide seeds and basic agraculture techniques .provide a few milk cows from american dairy farmers that produce large quantities of milk and give the american companies that make a differance tax free status you send 10 workers to build and install wells and irragation you pay no taxes its that simple make a real effort and you are exampt that year. insist that it be a differance not just a loophole to cheat on taxes but a way of regognizing the efforts of americans .

Answer 7

The money was sent, it just never reached those that needed it. Time and again, the African national leaders and local war lords would intercept monies and foods before it got where it was supposed to go. That's why tossing money at a problem doesn't work. You have to fix the system that causes the problem first.

Answer 8

I dont think the problem will ever be solved with just benefit concerts and international aid.
The only way to solve that problem would be if they just stopped having so many children that they cant afford to feed.
I have in mind a different song
" We want some condoms "

Answer 9

Another generation of starving children have come along since then. Feeding the hungry is a temporary fix.
Birth control, and sustainable self sufficiency is the long term fix.

Difference between hand-out and hand-up

Answer 10

Who really gets the money? I gave religiously (monthly)to an organization to adopt a child in Central America. I did this for 17 YEARS - even when I was unemployed! The child never existed.