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If you feel conviction about this topic, do something about it. You can write a quick letter to the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, even just your local MP. Many National MPs, as far as I can tell, don’t believe in giving much aid. It’s certainly well below tax cuts in the scale of importance. Write to them too, they might be in government one day and I really hope they don’t lower that level further because not enough people told them how important it was beforehand. Writing a quick letter isn’t that hard but it is really important.
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Africa needs trade not aid............. jasper bakyayita | Jul 22nd, 2008
Thanks for this article on the recipients of Aid most of them presumably in Sub Saharan Africa and the some some parts of Oceania and South pacific.
The people of Wellington do not really know the rest of the world due to geography,various climatic Zones and the fact that NZ ,Wellington,Auckland is far away 24 hours from the recipient nations.
I will give a few tips of aid in Uganda.President Museveni, has said that only way for us to stop begging is to open up your markets so we can compete and trade.Our products have high tariffs entering your country and lots of subsidies for the farmers in NZ.
Most aid coming to Uganda has so many strings attached to; employing donor agents to administer the aid in a recipient country,putting other conditions like good politics,human rights and democratic governance.
Giving aid to Uganda has crippled the capacity of the country to sustain itself..The country has to beg all the time to finance it budgetary deficits.
The Wellington govt gives less aid to Africa.Your government should inject capital in schools and vocational educational so the natives can use the skills to utilize the resources around them.
Please,visit some of these countries to have a glimpse of the conditions on the ground.
NGO s like Oxfam and World vision have the understandings of the local conditions on the ground.
Time has come to utilize locals in the managing of aid in their respective areas.Having not visited any recipient nation gives you a less understanding of aid politics.
In Uganda,there is a whole ministry that caters for poverty elimination,through women and youth groups for small scale loans.
Aids orphans,school and college graduates,people living with HIV, and other members who are vulnerable in society.Let me now how I can assist you in this endeavor
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