[Guardian]

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.

This video goes into some of the issues, self-inflicted by African governments, and then exacerbated by good intentions of Westerners donating stuff to Africans, ultimately holding their economy back and not allowing people to build a decent living: