Why should people like us donate to africa?

Question

Why can't the billionares donate all their money not something like 2 % except for Bill Gates who donated 95 % I envy him but if all the billionares donated like him, would there still be poverty. No! But if we small time people keep donating nothing will stick we are just feeding the hungry and the next day they will be hungry and the next. Not to mention the corrupt goverments. Why should we just throw away money. We are keeping the poor alive to just make more poor babies. So it dosent matter how much we small time people donate its up to the billionares & millionares & the trillionare goverment (US)

I understand how every donate helps but like why can't THEY donate. We have out own problems in the U.S too, its not just Africa and stuff.

PLZZZ DNT FIGHT W/ ME. im just asking a question. im just a little teenager who's curious

Answer 1

No,most doesn't get there.Self-governing is their problem.And we are a bankrupt nation.And individually you can,but there's poor people in our own backyard.http://www.honestmediatoday.com/white_so...  http://www.ilanamercer.com/TheGenocideIn...

Answer 2

We should let natural selection take over and just let them die. It's not like Africa really cotributes anything to the world. Just look at their decendants here.

Answer 3

the moral of the story is to teach a person to fish,rather than giving that person a fish to eat.do you get get it,throwing money at a problem may not be the best solution.perhaps we should teach these people to take care of themselves !africa has always been a lost cause because the west only threw money at them.

Answer 4

People like us SHOULDN'T donate to africa. if we did donate to africe the charity organization magically garnishes 50percent of the proceedings and whatever is left is sent to africa but the drug lords take all that money and you're basically giving money to killers. Do you not understand that there are children who are starving in America? Do you not realize how lucky you are to have a standard of living that's this good? I'm a little mad but you're just a teen but then again im 17. just remember that people work hard for their money and they have to give what they can to help the people around them first. you can't save everyone but you should try to save those around you.

Answer 5

My husband and I make sure our charitable donations go to help Americans in need. Unfortunately, the government pours our tax dollars into aid squandered by corrupt foreign governments for decade after decade.

Where are the celebrities touting for donations to American's own poor and homeless. Children who go hungry? I agree with you, let the wealthiest donate. But perhaps they would better serve our society by opening their pocketbooks for the poor here and not to benefit an art center.

Answer 6

Donating is a personal issue that is not up to how much you earn but what type of person you are. For example i know many people who don't donate, they come from all areas of society... What you are talking about is that rich people should feel the responsibility to donate, and this is wrong. The individual should feel the need to donate no matter what income they recieve, there are exceptions with those on minimum wage unable to give.

They can donate, but you make it sound as though you would make them, charity by definition is an act of kindness, giving to help the needy. That would be destroyed if you made the rich donate as some sort of tax.

Its not up to trillionaires to fix africas problems, as money alone cannot fix it. Your understanding of the problems is not enough, you talk of giving to help feed the hungry and yet we send massive amounts of food over to specific countries all year round, this, it is thought slows down agricultural development.

Being an teenager is no excuse for ignorance, you have not fully researched the govermental or living problems of Africa, if you had you would understand that they need more than just some billionaires money.

Answer 7

Why should people like us donate to africa?

Well... start with British imperialism, how in the "HECK" can you have a separate Africa - South Africa, a "white" South Africa? Is this not the "Dark Continent"? Why lay claim to a land so distant & already inhabited by natives, indigenous people -(or as so eloquently described in journal archives) - "Savages"?

Surely not because of GOLD, DIAMONDS & OIL... ummmmm?

Take a man who has for thousands of years live free unto the Land... respecting & honoring it; living off the land- sounds familiar, well, it should- think back to America's pilgrims and first/early settlers meeting up with the Native American Indians... pleasant and diplomatic [at first], but later turning to ALL OUT WAR with early Americans laying claim to the land "we" now walk, jog, bike and commute upon daily without thought  of the fact that there were PEOPLE here on/in this continent & had been such for eons until the facing off against the child/birth of British imperialism... ringing any bells now?

So what becomes of the Natives... are they all killed off in battle? How about made to live and survive day-to-day in a system foreign & difficult to every aspect of the life they know.

Reservations, Project Housings... they're all the same, a round up of indigenous people deemed unable to adjust to the "normal" daily tasks of the occupying/ruling body/nation.

Now tucked away (like sardines in a can) and in the most undesireable region of the land, these people now have to look to the hands of the oppressors for basic survival needs & resources despersed as rations. Hence the birth of POVERTY unto a people who had once been one with the land, being masters at surviving off the land. With poverty comes: I see no way out, down to my last dime, somehow we'll make it through... cliche's often heard within the walls of Project Housing facilities. Now introduce $$$, in whatever form the oppressors select... drugs, diamonds, slave trades (etc). With such, the end of a people is sure to come... to cheat, steal and kill for $$$ by any means necessary- this now becomes the daily tasks & routines of these people.

$$$ = a means of escaping the vice-jaws of poverty... who would decline such an offer/bait? $$$ at your door-step, a chance to "make it over"; or choose to keep your dignity and fight the good fight of faith, yet, you're looking at your wife and children starving to death!!! What would you do? There is no: let me call my parents and ask for $$$; let me go down to the local bank acquire a personal loan, using family land &/or businesses as collateral... perhaps so with a few, but definitely not with the majority... nothing from nothing = nothing; so if I've been oppressed and have no assets, no deeds, no businesses, no family estates (etc); then how can i compete, strive or survive as those who start with "something"?

This is the dilenma in Africa... once Earth's "Eden"... now wars upon wars, a continent, a land, a people now lost to the deadly virus of capitalism gone astray - "GREED" now blanketing this awe inspiring oasis on earth, doomed to the exploits of it's: blood diamonds, krugerrand gold, West Africa's sweet crude oil - Nigeria, Angola (etc). Give a select few poor, destitute and starving men illusions of grandeur; letting them taste steaks, caviar, fine automobiles, attire... untold wealths; while others stand off afar and covet such luxuries (alien & foreign to such people); they will began to compete amongst each other vying for these luxuries... escalating into unimagineable acts of barbarism against each other, including civil wars... yet never delaying the targeted productions nor extractions of some of the Earth's purest and most sought-after natural $$$$ resources & commodities.

Staggering & mind-blowing "profits & gains" of outside capitalistic $$ driven enterprises & conglomerates... as well as nations; while the inhabitants of the lands where these riches are made, are some of the most impoverished, genecidal, disease stricken, malnourished, bad health & uninformed (regarding the TRUE value & worth of THEIR land being exploited by greedy capitalists who have abolutely no concern for the people nor their land... all compounded & most heart-breaking in the fact = TRUTH, that they are the instruments & means by which their land is being ravished and raped... inevitably resulting in their their very own demise)!

SOoooo - YES we should give & assist... the next time you stop to clean your gold; watch your wife or fiance put on their "diamond" ring, that you so PROUDLY bought... think of the many lives affected & very realistically destroyed, to the point of death so that your wife could show off her new diamond ring at the monthly tupperware gathering... all at the expense of a land... of a people! YES, please give (back)!

Answer 8

Well put yourself in their shoes.If you were starving and had no family and was left there abandoned,wouldn't you want someone to donate money to you?

And yes,not many wealthy people donate as much and I'm really not quite sure about why they don't.They have all the money in the world.: |