Blog Post #10

       After reading both the section in the text book and the article provided, I think it would be much more beneficial to help establish trade, industry, and infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa. The aid that is continually provided seems to be causing more trouble than good. If there aren't people stealing it, it's being invested in other countries, not even in Africa. 


       If aid is going to be given, it needs to take a different appearance. In my opinion, it would be much more beneficial to actually have trained, capable people in Africa that could help set up industry and infrastructure that would remain sustainable and functioning long after the help leaves. The people who would help with this would need to know a lot about Africa in order to know what would work for them. This would help keep things manageable which in turn would be more beneficial. Similar to mission trips that send help to an area and then leave without giving the locals any way of continuing progress, foreign aid gives the funding but doesn't give any useful tools on managing it. 

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