what more can people do to help african nations?

Question

sometimes i feel bad for throwing away food that some country out there doesnt even get that much a day.. what more can U.S do to aid african nations

Answer 1

These are the problems in Africa.

- corrupt leaders who steal the money instead of using it for the thing it was given

- corrupt NGOs who pretend to be doing "good" there but are really just "living it up" and spending millions of dollars of donation money

- western nations that hold huge properties there .e.g. mining interests etc. who do nothing for their employees welfare and make billions while their workers barely have a piece of cloth covering them and no shoes, working under the hot african sun

- horrible killer militias who have no curiousity or creatively, they just live for the moment, stealing, hurting and killing, and kidnapping kids so they can continue this...living only for now

- finally: ppl who grew up thinking Food comes from the back of UN-Trucks rather than being grown in the ground (somewhat like some of us think food comes in little plastic-wrapped styrofoam trays in the supermarket rather than being cut out of cows or plucked from trees).

For the very last point, I must say - i agree with some of the other answers here, in that the africans can't really get it rolling in their own interest if they don't know how to do simple things like growing food, planning, sewage and arithmetic.

If we keep giving them just enough to keep them alive, then we can't expect them to turn into albert einsteins overnight. They need to hit the bottom of the barrell and pick themselves up. That way they will have our respect, and more importantly, their own.

Answer 2

Perhaps it should also be asked, "what more can African nations do to help themselves?" They need to loose their cultural and tribal differences and selfishness and learn honesty, toleration, and respect for others. There seems to be too much "SELF" attitude and corruption is rampant. Many charity shipments of donated food, clothing and goods get hi-jacked and sold on the black market. The major world charitys have to provide armed guards to get their shipments through and have round the clock guards on their offices and warehouses there. Africans must first learn to work together for the good and benifit of "all", not just be out for what they can get for themselves. As the saying goes....YOU CANNOT TAKE OUT OF ANYTHING .....MORE THAN WHAT YOU PUT IN !!!!!!!

Answer 3

Bush meat is oftentimes eaten by employing very unfavourable human beings or is offered interior the close by markets as that individual's considerable source of earnings. whilst I hate that those actual everyone seems to be killing apes, you are able to't handle the problem by employing purely making a regulation to outlaw eating great apes. Hungry human beings do no longer keep on with rules. once you have enacted a plan to feed those thousands and thousands of human beings & supply them jobs, then the want for this regulation would be a great deal decreased. i'm with you, i'm hoping the apes are saved additionally.

Answer 4

Act to stop the idiots that keep running down the good people who are trying to do something about it.

What ever people think of Bono and Geldorf they are doing a lot to draw attention to the problem yet there seems an endless stream of people who have done nothing themselves lining up to criticise them and cause as much harm as can be done to this good cause.

Answer 5

It's not what the U.S. can do to help, it's what Africa can do for it's nations. There's so many greedy and corrupt leaders there that no amount of aid we give them will solve the issues.

Answer 6

Some people are doing great things already (Bono, Bill Gates) by raising money and drawing attention. Africa lacks infrastructure for distributing the help, but building this infrastructure will itself solve many problems. This infrastructure includes uncorrupted and qualified management (with necessary computer equipment for analyzing resources), security forces, road and rail ways (for distribution), electric power, telecommunications, free education and health care (presently they cannot afford it), and then of course food, water, and medicine.

The worst and most troublesome part is the politics involving tribal warfare, war lords, resentment, distrust, resource exploitation (diamonds, gold), and corrupt leadership. If a large single country (like the USA) bringing the necessary resources invades these countries to rebuild them correctly, then distrust and resentment will ensue since there will be oppositional media to campaign against the invaders or occupiers. It will take a much more powerful UN or coalition of forces to remove the bad people from power and help qualified people manage things correctly. It will take many more volunteers, such as those in the Peace Corps to provide assistance on the local level and building the infrastructure. There should be non-corrupting incentives (and closely watched) for international businesses to invest in Africa and build this infrastructure. Lastly, the local people need to be educated to run things correctly for themselves.

Some have brought up the question about whether tribal people can run things like westerners, because their tribal traditions may conflict with centralized democratic-republican ideas of government. That may be the reason behind so much tribal warfare. If this is true, then we need to help them explore alternative forms of peaceful and co-existing governments. Such governments need to be stable enough and provide clear and uncorrupted legal systems so that businesses will gain enough confidence to establish local businesses to help build their economies.

To start this off, we need leaders to present plans to the world and build confidence in such plans. These plans should demonstrate and forecast how organizational management and enough resources will improve situations in Africa. This will build the confidence that people want so they know that their time and money will not be wasted. With enough campaigning, it will motivate others to give and volunteer.

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Since the previous part was of monumental proportions, here are slower, but cheaper and less involved solutions. Remove the bad elements (war lords, corrupt leaders, etc), prevent the situation from devolving further by providing a stable interim government, purchase equipment for construction and utilities and creating factories, provide food and water and medicine with conditions to encourage people to help others and take part in building their communities, bring in foreign investment and advisers, educate and train people to provide for themselves, and provide micro-loans and business loans with the aid of business incubators (including financial and management counselors).

Even after removing the bad elements, there will be tensions among tribes, but we should look to Rwanda as one example of what to do afterwords. Land and resources will remain touchy subjects in Africa. Tribes may claim ownership over the same land. "Good fences make good neighbors." There should be a law and judicial system capable of resolving disputes. We may need for a powerful foreign military to force warring tribes to talk to each other and reach fair compromises for all sides. Once agreements are made, the tribes will be held accountable. Some tribes may want to remain nomadic and live off the land. Fine then, there should be public lands that should be shared amongst but not owned by these nomadic tribes, but they need to respect public land usage laws.

Going back to politics again, tribes may view a centralized government with suspicion, and rightfully so. They know that if another tribe has a greater population and gains more representation in government, then that tribe will probably make laws to favor that tribe, and possibly at the expense of this tribe. In the constitution, there should be protections from the "tyranny of the majority." In a representative assembly, there could be a house where each tribal representative gets only one vote (and there should be protections against splitting tribes to gain more votes).

Answer 7

What more can Africa do to aid African nations ??

Answer 8

This sounds a bit in humane, but I think we need to not help the adults and just hep the children.

In life, anyone who has everything done for them will do nothing for themselves.

Answer 9

Leave them the hell alone so they can work out their own solutions without interference from the rest of the world. Maybe if we would keep our big noses out of their business they would solve their own problems

Answer 10

Birth control in the water supply.