What Are we doing here? : why Western aid hasn't helped Africa /
Wealthy nations have sent vast amounts of monetary, medical, and food assistance to Africa. Yet much of the continent remains mired in poverty, famine, and bloodshed. Challenging viewers to rethink traditional humanitarian approaches, this film follows four young Americans as they experience firstha...
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New York, N.Y. :
Films Media Group,
[2009], c2008
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Table of Contents:
- African Poverty (3:48)
- Sudan, Africa: Food Aid (4:07)
- Food Aid or Development? (3:31)
- Ethiopia, Africa: Entrenched Poverty (4:06)
- Ethiopia: Child Sponsorship (4:11)
- Care for Children Orphaned by AIDS (3:11)
- Orphans Learn Self-Reliance (3:32)
- Failure of Programs to Solve Poverty Problems (4:44)
- Nairobi, Kenya: TB and HIV/AIDS Proliferate (3:49)
- Does Donor Aid to Third World Countries Decrease Poverty? (2:23)
- Donor Countries and NGOs: Culture of Dependence (4:17)
- Somalia and Somaliland: Western Aid vs. Self-Reliance (3:34)
- Somaliland: Model of Democracy and Self-Reliance (2:22)
- Rwanda: Western Intervention Harmful (3:42)
- Aftereffects of Genocide in Rwanda (5:03)
- Genocide Aftermath: Painful Memories (3:27)
- Malawi: Missionaries, Food, and Bibles (4:29)
- Micro-Finance Programs: Empowerment of Women (2:48)
- International Aid Ignores Roots of Poverty (2:23)
- Africa: Poverty and Politics (2:01)
- How to Help Poor People (2:26)
- Cape Town, South Africa: Human Face of Poverty (3:44)
- Scope of Human Suffering in Africa (2:52)