Aid what is it good for

The U. The importance of international aid lies in economic benefits, such as trading proliferations, as much as health and national security. As evidenced above, it is clear that there is truth in the fact that foreign aid helps the U.

Blog - Latest News. Foreign Aid Helps the U. Exports rose 77 percent in Tanzania, percent in Zambia and percent in Ethiopia. International assistance feeds, educates and keeps children healthy. Fact: More than , Sudanese have received food assistance since the start of the Resilience and Food Security Program in South Sudan has been an independent country for less than 6 years, but ongoing conflict during that time has made food scarce, as farmers are too afraid to work their fields.

Famine was declared in parts of South Sudan in February , and severe hunger is spreading across the country. In Jonglei state, families are surviving by gathering wild fruit, such as lily seeds, palm seeds and roots. For most people, this is their one meal per day. Communities learn how to produce food through agriculture and livestock production, and how to anticipate and deal with any potential threats to their food system.

This will not only give people the food they need now to survive, but also give tools they need to build a sustainable future. In Central America, more than 1 million young people ages 15 to 25 years are out of school and unemployed, many of them lacking the basic skills to enter the labor market. Meanwhile, Honduras and El Salvador are among the top 5 countries with the highest murder rates in the world.

The escalating violence is stifling investment and economic growth, further limiting opportunities for jobs. We believe that young people in even the poorest and most conflict-ridden neighborhoods have the power to change their lives and communities.

The YouthBuild program helps unemployed and out-of-school youth 16 to 24 go back to school, get a job or start their own business. CRS is providing training for 20, youth in Central America, including life skills, vocational training, entrepreneurship, savings groups and community service in the positive environments young people need to flourish. They need our help accessing the opportunities that exist in their communities so that they are not forced to migrate elsewhere to find them.

With continued support from the U. Department of Agriculture, CRS is making sure tens of thousands of children in Mali receive a meal at school every day. This encourages school enrollment and increases attendance.

CRS also provides critical nutrition and education programs for children in Laos through the U. FFE program. Yemenis like Wazir instead call for donor organisations to invest in the future of Yemen, with funds for educational institutes and vocational training, as well as increased job opportunities in the country and in the wider region. Baraa Shaiban, a youth activist, supports this approach: "Short-term solutions might be needed in certain places, but it won't solve things in the long term.

We need investment. Aid on its own won't solve the issue. Proponents of aid accept there have been problems in the past, but say aid is vital for the future of the country. Awssan Kamal, a member of the Yemen Relief and Development Forum , an umbrella charity set up by the Yemeni diaspora in the UK, says the forum is not simply looking at short-term solutions. Many Yemenis complain they have not benefited much from international aid, a view reflected by the human rights minister, Hooria Mashoor.

Their life conditions are not improving. The forum aims to avoid the problems affecting other aid organisations working in Yemen that have tried to change Yemeni opinion on aid.

The YRDF will only work with local NGOs that provide reports on where the money being sent to them is going, in an attempt to stamp out corruption.