Money for Criminals , Diddly for the poor

Canadian aid having impact in Afghanistan: group


Widespread corruption in Afghanistan is slowing efforts to improve the quality of life for average citizens, but Canadian aid is still making a difference, according to a group monitoring the country's human rights situation.
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Afghans have alleged that some Afghan civil servants are pocketing aid money, and are blatantly living beyond what their $200-per-month salaries would otherwise suggest.

According to the BBC, there are further allegations police officers are taking bribes from drug smugglers, to help offset their monthly pay of $70 -- a third less than what an army recruit makes.
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But Nahzat said more aid -- not less -- should be funded directly through the Afghanistan government. Otherwise, NGOs would give much of the money to foreign consultants.
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"Specifically, it comes about because a lot of the aid money is going towards funding private companies, and giving big pay cheques to consultants who are coming there for an odd basis, on a two-week time frame."



So...when you give money to help the afghani's , it either goes to corrupt government figures, who just pocket it, or it goes to consultants who charge outragous sums because , lets face it , they're in a war zone and they could get killed so they want to be compensated.

Only a the smallest fraction actually goes to help the people in question , however.


He added that Canadians must keep faith that their tax dollars are going towards effective humanitarian projects to help average Afghans


But we should keep giving anyways, or so the article goes.

I submit that aid money is not actually going to help the poor. It's really winding up in the hands of corrupt government ministers and Muslim fanatics. We are , in fact , funding the very terrorists that are doing their darndest to thwart our mission in Afghanistan, because you have to be a good muslim to be in any kind of power there, and being a good muslim means giving money to the local mosque so it can teach people to impose muslim law everywhere and kill anyone who disagree's.

Send food. Send clothing even. Don't send money. Money makes the problem worse, not better. Money is simply taken by those with guns (the terrorists) and used to fund their operations.