Foreign Aid

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Foreign Aid

• The Challenge of Delivering Culturally
  Appropriate Development Programs in Low-Resource
  Countries

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Definition of Foreign Aid

• The act of those who have resources help those
  who have extreme need..seems simple?
• Many critics have questioned the fact that
  development aid actually brings the expected
  reduction in poverty

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Questions to Ask

• Who do we give aid to?
• For how long do we provide aid?
• Is the aid influenced by political, strategic, or
  commercial interests of the donor?
• Does the recipient country have the capacity to
  use the aid wisely?
• Will aid encourage corruption within the elites?
• Will the aid actually reach those in extreme
  need and make a difference?
• Is the aid culturally appropriate and will cause
  no harm?

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Foreign Aid is a large and complex Enterprise

• Three types of world aid organizations
• Official Development Aid (aid provided by
  government and inter-governmental agencies) USAID
• Non- Governmental Organizations (NGO)
• Humanitarian or Emergency Aid (aid typically
  provided in response to a crisis)

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Three Types of Development Workers

• Colonialist The individual who comes with a
  specific idea of what needs to be transformed and
  pushes the community leaders in the country aside
  to do their own thing
• Builder The individual with the need to help
  syndrome who goes home, does some fundraising,
  and comes back to the country of need and builds
  something
• Catalyst The individual who comes along side the
  community and helps to guide projects through
  expertise and resources

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The Road to Hell The Ravaging Effects of Foreign
Aid and International Charity By Michael Maren

• Charity creates a multitude of Sins Oscar
  Wilde
• Michael Maren tells of how humanitarian
  intervention can get hijacked by powerful
  charities and can often feed raw materials and
  funds to corrupt politicians looking after their
  own political agendas
• He calls this kind of charitable giving The
  last refuge of Western Colonialism
• Good intentions can often have disastrous
  outcomes

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The Road to Fondwa

• Fondwa is a story that challenges the status quo
  of international development
• Centered on the vision of international
  cooperation and respect
• International aid focuses on bringing expertise
  and resources to the community
• Development programs created through the grass
  roots organization The Association of Peasants of
  Fondwa (APF)

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Family Health Ministries

• Mission Statement Supporting international
  communities in their efforts to build and sustain
  healthy families
• FHM is built first on relationships
• It is not the buildings we support, but the
  communities we serve
• Community driven and Haitian staffed