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Your full of interesting questions :) The answer to me like you seems simple to help these poor individuals, but unfortunately their Government has control of their lives and mis spends money on arms etc instead of basic needs of these people. We could move in and build houses etc but politics controls our action.it is something charities try to do, but I have other thoughts concerning greedy charities (there are some out there who dont waste our monies)
people and organisations are already doing it. lets contribute our bit to it.
Because governments are so corrupt.
People have been doing that longer than you and I have been alive. 3rd world countries aren't going to survive by building streets and buildings they have to be taught to survive. people survive because money is brought into there economy. if 3rd world countries became tourist sites they would have an economy but do you see yourself visiting a 3rd world country on vacation?
the respectful governments of these countries are corrupt, or money is spent on arms etc, this is one of the problems, with fair trade improving hopefully this will better.
Charities are working hard at providing this and as humans we contribute to that cause.
It's up to the governments to ease the trading taxes and to make a contribution. Some of these countries have been torn apart by wars (US Army, British Forces etc) and internal conflicts, and they are still trying to recover.
The only charity I know that goes all the way, which includes building houses and schools (including teachers) is Humanity First. Possibly, the first and only charity that receives funding solely from private donors (such as myself). And without assistance from the government.
Given you got 100 million: Within a period of 8 months it will be about 130 million.
Those countries: Do they have oil or gaz? If they don't: WHO will spend/pay ?
That's the answer.
because communism doesn't work.
First look after number one
Goverments in these countries are so corrupt that the money we send hardly ever gets to where its supposed to go. The leaders are living a very comfortable lifestyle on our donations
the governments are corrupted and any help that they recieve by the time is gets to the people on the ground ,all thats left after they have been creamed of any thing that could make a difference is in some corrupt officails back pocket.so even if it gets to a town there town offical wants his cut.
the main problem with these countries is that our donations only get as far as their government and the money is used to buy wepons increasing the potential of civil wars
We can't even build enough houses , roads, and look after the genuinely poor, old and ill people in this country.In 50 years time this country will be in ruins.
The principal reason is bad governance in many developing countries. Because of endemic corruption almost all aid is miss-appropriated by corrupt government officials. many poor and under-developed countries have plenty of natural resources and the ability to undercut western countries with their cheap work force.
The governments of these countries are so corrupt that they take most of the aid given for themselves .The only way to ensure the aid gets to the needy is to provide housing education etc. directly to where it is required. However to do this you need the co-operation of the government in that area and it is most unlikely to be forthcoming. Sadly!
The answer is laughably simple, but the problem is quite complex.
The answer is stop spending billions on weapons, stop intensive farming of animals and stop being greedy.
By wiping out the national debts owed by third world countries to first world countries, poverty would be all but gone within a decade.
By not eating animals, and breeding them artificially, there would be more than enought grain, soya and crops to feed the world twice over - even at it's current overpopulation level and enough land for everybody to live fairly comfortably.
By not having war, and spending silly money on developing new ways of killing and maiming each other, we could cure 75% of the known illnesses today within 25 years, irrigate all but the most barren of desertland and educate every child in the world to university level.
However, rich people like being rich, people in the first world like eating burgers and oil barrens enjoy the benefits of being able to hold the world to ransom. Apparantly war is a much better idea than peace and religous fanaticism is better than education.
I'm not entirely convinced that trying to save our species is in the best interests of the planet, or the rest of the universe.
Sorry to bring you down on a monday morning and all. but basically, we're a bunch of bastards.
What about all those rich celebrities who tell us all to give money to charity, then go back to their mansions with their hundreds of millions of pounds.
You could always see if Madonna will buy all their children. That seems to be the trend nowadays.
we crnt control it, we think we are all free but we are not, we are controlled by the governments, so we can try but we will never susseed intill we become part of the government or stop the government all together . .
Its not the houses,streets,city's and normal essentials that need sorting out-its the often corrupt governments and self proclaimed "warlords" of these lands that need to be sorted out.Some of these third world country's get more money in aid than you can shake a stick at,or will ever see in your lifetime-have you seen any improvement in these country's infrastructures after aid has been sent?.no,short answer to that!20 odd years ago,a certain "sir bob geldoff" had the world united in the fight for just ONE country,any change there since?-nah,and there's not likely to be.Its politics m'dear,just plain politics.
unfortunately the world is not all equal and some countries have a ruling gov. that is corrupt so even money raised for helping the poor does not entirely get used for this purpose. If we all keep doing our bit no matter how big or small I believe we will sort it out at some point. You have got to think we can not just wade in and say we will sort you out. These things will take time and involves a change in human nature too.
because that would be the "superior" west gonig in and imposing our ideals and our opinions, because that would mean us taknig over their governements, because that would mean us becoming a disctatorship over them
and do you think they would submit quietly to our "superior" will?
No
We would have civil war
We would have our soliders fighting and giving up their lives to enforce a regime on a people who are fighting against it
Because it may be our place to help, and assist, and support and guide; but its not our place to tell them, like a silly school child, "you must do it this way" and then if they don;t. like an impatient parent, go and do it for them"
I understand why you are concerned and that's great, we should help
but we we should HELP not impose, no do, not take over, not dictate, not force, not make them
First, there is no real rason why we can't do anything about it - any argument from economics will be wrong wrong wrong. Think about the loss of one human life - nothing can justify that - not even a billion dollars!
We could decide that human beings are selfish, but that is trite in itself - there are plenty of examples of selfless human behaviour and anyone who says the opposite is, more than likely, just trying to justify their own actions.
We could say that it is the fault of the corrupt leaders that is the problem - but that sounds to me like another excuse not to act and to absolve responsibility from ourselves. Our 'civilised' governments are JUST AS BAD - unfair trade laws punish the developing world just as much as the arms dealers.
We must stop the exploitation at home first, which means addressing the faults in our unsustainable economic system. Most of all we must each take responsibility for our own actions AND the actions of our own leaders.
Ask yourself what can I do?
coming from a 3rd world / developing country. i couldnt help but agree with what most have already pointed out.
1. Help is good but only to a certain extent. Like persons, countries should learn to stand on their own by exploiting their strengths and resolving their weaknesses.
2. Politics is a major problem in every developing nation. Change has to come from within the system.
3. There is a difference in Helping / assisting and Patronizing. Most 1st world countries ask something in return for their assistance and somehow just get the developing nations more into debt.
Citizens of developing nations should institue the change from within.
Your right its a disgrace that people are leaving below poverty in the world. what all the rich people need to do is all come together and help the poor countries themselves, go to the countries and don't leave until they see that there money is being spent in the right way. we are all one family THE HUMAN RACE we need to really start helping each other and stop being so selfish and greedy (I'm talking to myself too!).
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