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Liberia does not deserve your assistance.

"Since 2003, the international community has poured billions of dollars of aid into the country." (https://www.devex.com/news/a-decade-of-aid-dependence-in-lib...)

"Liberia receives an estimated $449 million in annual off-budget foreign assistance. And this estimate of off-budget aid excludes unknown amounts of funding from UNMIL, China, private foundations, and several bilateral and UN agencies." (http://aiddata.org/blog/the-elusive-quest-for-effective-aid-...)

After all this, if a country in the world's oldest continent still can't manage (because of corruption, apathy, whatever) it's certainly not your responsibility to step in and perpetuate such incompetence. If it takes a substantial reduction in population to finally affect change, then so be it.

Blunt, controversial, I don't care. 'Africa' needs to step up and take responsibility for its own destiny.

More reading: http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9121361/why-aid-fails/




Limiting the spread of contagious and lethal diseases is not purely humanitarian. He's not donating dollars to Liberia, he's donating them to MSF.




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