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    Editorial - Foreign Aid

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    Foreign aid and charity are not just nice gestures, but rather keep human hearts beating. While Americans enjoy a high standard of living, millions die from starvation each year. The United States gives very little, only 0.16% of its GNI, in foreign aid despite being one of the wealthiest nations. As fellow humans, we must help those who are starving, with over 25,000 adults and children dying of starvation daily. Individuals should donate to organizations providing aid and some should volunteer directly in impoverished areas to help those lacking sustenance and love.

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    Editorial - Foreign Aid

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    Foreign aid and charity are not just nice gestures, but rather keep human hearts beating. While Americans enjoy a high standard of living, millions die from starvation each year. The United States gives very little, only 0.16% of its GNI, in foreign aid despite being one of the wealthiest nations. As fellow humans, we must help those who are starving, with over 25,000 adults and children dying of starvation daily. Individuals should donate to organizations providing aid and some should volunteer directly in impoverished areas to help those lacking sustenance and love.

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    Foreign aid and charity are not just nice gestures, but rather keep human hearts beating. While Americans enjoy a high standard of living, millions die from starvation each year. The United States gives very little, only 0.16% of its GNI, in foreign aid despite being one of the wealthiest nations. As fellow humans, we must help those who are starving, with over 25,000 adults and children dying of starvation daily. Individuals should donate to organizations providing aid and some should volunteer directly in impoverished areas to help those lacking sustenance and love.

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    Editorial - Foreign Aid

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    Stephen Fitch
    Foreign aid and charity are not just nice gestures, but rather keep human hearts beating. While Americans enjoy a high standard of living, millions die from starvation each year. The United States gives very little, only 0.16% of its GNI, in foreign aid despite being one of the wealthiest nations. As fellow humans, we must help those who are starving, with over 25,000 adults and children dying of starvation daily. Individuals should donate to organizations providing aid and some should volunteer directly in impoverished areas to help those lacking sustenance and love.

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    Foreign Aid and Charity are not Nice Gestures;

    they Keep Human Hearts Beating


    by: Stephen Fitch

    Living in America, we enjoy a standard of living ranking within the top twenty in the

    world, a world with about 194 countries! By virtue of being an American with a great wealth rel-

    ative to the world, we tend to observe things with a view from the top of the mountain. In this

    perspective, we are oblivious to the atrocities and chaotic day-to-day life of the third world coun-

    tries, in which a starving mother would be collecting water or food for her children in great des-

    peration just to survive. A joint poll posed in March 1997 by the Washington Post, Harvard Uni-

    versity and the Kaiser Family Foundation asked Americans what part of the federal expenditure

    they thought was greatest, and the result was astounding. Many Americans thought about twenty

    percent of the federal expenditure was composed of foreign aid, but in reality, about one percent

    of the expenditure is allocated to foreign aid.

    Although the United States gives more in foreign aid than any other country, according to

    the DACOECD (Development Assistance Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooper-

    ation and Development), the United States gives second to last out of the twenty-two wealthiest

    countries in proportion to its GNI (Gross

    National Income). The United States gives

    only 0.16 of one percent of its GNI in for-

    eign aid.

    What is the bottom line you ask?

    According to CNN, six million die from

    starvation each year. What is more? 17,000

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    children alone die daily due to nourishment inadequacies. As biological comrades, brothers and

    sisters of the same species, we MUST help those who are starving! Could you imagine being one

    of the TWENY-FIVE THOUSAND adults and children who are going to starve to death today,

    according to the United Nations?

    Despite politic inefficiencies in giving foreign aid to nations who corruptly pocket “aid”

    revenue, our nation, we as the individuals must do more to help the helpless and the poverty

    stricken. We are blessed enough to thrive in a rich country with the abundance of food and op-

    portunity, but imagine if you or your loved one was one of

    the starved causalities, would it just be a statistic then? Of

    course not, “that’s my mother, or father, or girlfriend!” Why

    can we not love others as our self, and muster up the humil-

    ity to love others,and want to provide them with the grace of

    life and joy we have and take for granted daily? It is thus

    our responsibility to help administer to those in need

    throughout the world, whether it be a need for food, shelter,

    clothing, community, love or education. Since many of us

    are so fortunate in America to have vast monetary resources

    (relative to the third world countries), we can start with do-

    nating money through the red cross, UNICEF or Compassion International, etc, with any amount

    of money on any cumulative or non cumulative basis- your choice. Some will choose to venture

    off to areas as far as Africa, South America, or China to equip these people devoid with suste-

    nance and love first hand through the peace core, missionary work, or other organizations.

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    It may be convenient to ignore this message and the idea of drastic global tragedy, and

    we could just pretend this is not happening around the world, or that we can just nonchalantly

    revel the things we have. This response would not only be indifferent and negligent, it would be

    forsaking our own existence, voiding our thanksgiving for the things God has entrusted to us. In-

    stead of folding your arms in apathy, pour out your generosity from your extended arms, show-

    ing others in the world that you acknowledge this horrible abomination and want to change it. As

    Mahatma Ghandi once said, “You must be the change you want to see you the world.”

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