[tc4me]

@Darth-Apple  great your reference to the emergency in Africa, but unfortunately every year the reference to help for Africa but everyone always asks the same questions: To whom should I donate? Does my money really get to those in need?
And who is trustworthy in this huge auxiliary machine that has been trying to get Africa back on its feet for decades, apparently in vain?
All of these questions are more than justified.
But the problem is much more complex.

In all the years since the Ethiopian famine in 1984, the industrialized countries have still not found a viable way to achieve something in the long term. There is not necessarily a lack of money, there was almost always plenty of it. "We've spent $ 600 billion on aid in Africa over the past 45 years, and after all that, kids still can't get twelve cents of malaria medicine," writes William Easterly, economics professor at the University of New York , in a comment. New form of colonization? A farmer walks through his field in Asagir, Ethiopia. Alemneh Abera is the first in the region to try terrace construction.

The aid organization "Menschen für Menschen", run by the actor Karlheinz Böhm, provided the necessary start-up help.

What is missing is quite simply the right approach.

One of the reasons for failure is cultural-historical. "Many of us believe that humanitarian aid is a morally pure way of responding to the suffering in the world," writes the renowned British journalist Peter Gill, who has dealt with developing countries for most of his career. "But what if all of our good intentions are nothing more than a newer version of colonization?"

Most organizations in Africa actually have a "we know everything better" mentality in Africa, as David Rieff of the New York Times confirms: "By definition, help is when outsiders tell people in a place how they have to do things while threatening to withdraw their aid if people do not act accordingly. " You don't make friends with it. Fighting causes instead of symptoms Aid project in the Congo: Young Congolese women work on sewing machines in a slum of Kinshasa.

Another problem is the extensive ignorance of Western helpers when it comes to the complex African traditions and forms of society. While food is busily being distributed, most places have missed out on teaching people about birth control.
Almost everywhere in Africa, population growth has exploded in the last few decades and there is no end in sight. And so the auxiliary machinery has to supply more and more people living in extreme poverty and thus combats the symptoms, but not one of the causes of the misery. Then there are the numerous scandals that are shaking the world of aid organizations. Again and again it is said that most of the money flows into completely wrong channels and supports civil wars, rebels or dictators. In Sierra Leone, peacekeepers and helpers are said to have offered young girls "Aid for Sex". Up until 2007, a French organization offered alleged orphans from Chad and Sudan for adoption, even though they did have a father and mother. The Unicef scandal about excessive commission payments to private donation collectors and opaque financial conduct in general, which caused a sensation in Germany in 2008, has not been forgotten.
The donation seal was then withdrawn from the German section of the UN Children's Fund.

Unfortunately, this is the truth, and simply donating to calm your conscience is bad, in my opinion donating is the wrong way, education and active help would be the order of the day. The most important thing would be a birth control, because unfortunately the numbers speak for themselves, child production is the top priority there, and as long as there is no reduction, the continent will forever be like today or worse

I hope you can follow my bad English

Thank you lg Tc4me