Would you donate $1 to buy food for poor children in Africa?
$1? Or 78 pence where I'm from In The uk.What am I buying this child? Some jawbreakers?No, I'd donate more than 78 pence but I don't really trust charities so I'd want to personally give the child(ren) something to eat.
I this person that wants food in grana west africa how do i tell if this is a scam or not?
i need any info on if this is a scam he keeps on iming me and i need to know if i should send him $10 worth of food or not what do i do to find out if this man is scaming me or realy needs my help any advice would be help full. thank you.
Hi many people no food in africa,what can we help them anything money or medichent ,t-shrit andbanket,shoe pl
Africa doesn't get enough aid to feed them over some crisis that is striking them (wars and famine caused by bad leaders they never chose themselves). The World Food Programme asks for more money from governments and individuals to stop the famine in the horn of Africa (Somalia, Northern Kenya, Ethiopia), and soon again the Sahel will face another drought (Niger, Mali, Chad), so the situation just on famine is very bad. What africa needs is not only aid cash, but economic partnerships, cultural exchange, tourism to start new ties with the developed world. There are many places in Africa where people are educated to do the job of manufacturing, but there is not investment finance to get things off the ground so things stagnate in Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania for no reason. The land is very rich in most parts of Africa. The countries of the Sahel have very poor land (which is why they most often go hungry), Sahel is the region just south of the Sahara (Mali, Burkina-Faso, Niger, Chad, central Sudan). Then hunger in other parts like Somalia are caused by conflict. The land is bad in parts of Namibia and Botswana where the Kalahari desert is, but since population there is low, they don't go hungry. Some of the toughest people live in that desert they say... the bushmen. Elsewhere, agriculture is going well, but lack of proper irrigation, farming techniques, plant species or fertilizers and pesticides (which can also be just naturally made and not poisonous) means that the crop yeilds are low. Agriculture is not mechanised, so most of the farm work is done with very simple agricultural tools like a junglie knife and a spade. Africans grow all crops you can imagine, the yam being the staple crop in west africa, along with corn and rice. if you want to donate something, then do so through a charitable organisation that you trust, such as the world food programme, save the children, oxfam... look them on the internet and judge their work for yourself. Most of them also accept clothes donations, though depending on the needs in Africa they may sell your t-shirt first and then give the money to Africa.
Benefits of donate money for poor people in Africa?
tax write off thats pretty much all i can think of.
Why don't countries give their excess food to Africa?
It's simple: if they are getting free food from us, their agricultural sector cannot develop. And if they cannot rely on us all the time for food, and they can't produce food themselves, they are screwed.Let's presume Africa has a food shortage. When Europe gives out excess food from Europe as a result of Common Agricultural Policy setting food prices too high and the authority ends up buying huge amount of food to sustain the high prices, what we have seen is European food flooding the African market. The African farms have got no way to win: the European authority is able to sell the food at any price outside Europe, since the alternative would be no sale at all. African farms simply cannot compete with the loss-making European agricultural authority who only wants to recover some losses and does not aim to make a profit. Free food therefore would force African farms out of business, hindering African nations' ability to produce food.Now, there is no problem if Africa can rely on Europe forever on food at no costs. However we know that's not the case. Firstly, Europe doesn't always have food surplus, as harvests vary from year to year, and if this year the harvests are bad then Europe perhaps needs to buy food from somewhere else, let alone giving food out. Secondly, such heavy reliance on European food is likely to subject African nations to strong European influences, which has the potential to condition African nations to European economic and political interests, just as they once were under colonial influences. Thirdly, such food aid has the effect of depressing long-term food prices, which signals to businesses that it is not a profitable industry to go in. In the long-term agricultural developments in Africa would stagnate, resulting in heavier and heavier reliance on outside world for food. There is another argument regarding incentives. As soon as there is free food, not only do those who cannot afford food will try to get free food, those who used to pay would also want free food. Everyone would want the free food, and only resort to buying local food as a back-up plan. This further damages the consumption of locally produced food, and creates the expectation that there will be free food, damaging the future consumption of locally produced food. Similar arguments apply to any kind of food aid. That's why we better teach them how to farm by helping them with capital, labour and entrepreneurship than just give them food.
How can I donate 1,000 chickens to poor African countries?
There is a serious problem with the premise of the question.While I agree that a few countries in Africa are poor and there are a poor people in Africa, this is the same case with every other continent.Well what people generally think of Africa,But it also this,Sadly, this picture is never shown.The second problem, well, contrary to popular belief, donations cause more problems than it solves....Confused? Let me tell why it is so.Donating anything, destroys local industries. You don’t need to be an economist to understand that local manufactures find it very difficult to compete with something/someone which provides the same product for free. You can’t compete with someone who is providing the same product as you do for free but you have to spend money and resources to produce it. As a result, the local markets die out, putting people out of jobs and thus creating unemployment. More unemployment leads to more dependency and thus increases poverty. This is exactly what happened in Kenya. During the 1980’s it’s textile industry was booming and employed about 30 percent of its labor work force but as soon as the markets opened and ‘donated’ clothes came into the country, it crushed and devastated the textile industry.[1] A study found out that used clothing donations were responsible for a 50% reduction in employment in the textile industry in the African continent between 1980 and 2000s[2].“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.” - MaimonidesIn the end, we also observe an important thing that though the people who are donating are trying to do good and help people but it is not happening because - Good intentions are always not enough.Footnotes[1] Why Sending Your Old Clothes to Africa Doesn't Help[2] Some bad news about TOMS shoes
Why doesn't America donate all their excess corn to Africa?
Because it make little economic sense for a lot of peopleFor the american producer it adds zero economic valueIt destroys foreign agriculture. Why would an african buy corn when you can get it for free.It destroys the economic environment. Compagnies like Monsanto, as evil as they are supposed to be, dont want overall agriculture output to decrease. They want the biggest portion they can.For any rational African government the risk outweighs the immediate political gain. You now partially depend on another foreign entity you have no control on. That foreign entity also has limited control on itself (otherwise it would not produce in excess in the first place)Somebody has to pay for the logistics, from the corn field to the mouth of the consumer.