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Economic Assistance and Foreign Aid

 

An extremely big earthquake can cause damage that varies from thousands to billions of dollars. People are often left homeless, their money supply shortened and deeper into a state of making it more difficult to meet their basic needs of living. After an earthquake when the damages are severe, the chances of working are minimum. This makes it a lot harder for someone to purchase food, for their families, and can lead to famine and mal-nutrition. In places like Afghanistan right now there are many people dying from the was on terrorism. Due to the unexpected amount of deaths from the war there is disruption in the lives of the people, and a threat to their way of life. In other places people live in areas where they are unable to get a job that pays well, due to the fact they are not educated, and often alliterate. This is a result of a nation unable to afford education for all. In some areas they are secluded from the world there are no jobs available for the residents. This can cause problems and threaten their lives, because if people who can not work and make money can not supply their families with anything but the basics, to live. The numbers of people that do not receive the proper amount of intake of food and vitamins in Africa are much higher than compared to those living in Canada. The rate of diseases that people contract are higher in Africa then Canada as well. If their immune system is not use to that type of disease, then the chances of survival are minimal. " Despite advances in medicine, one fifth of the worlds population still live in poverty so cannot afford medicine as well as many suffering from hunger and disease. 35, 000 people die of starvation every day, and 14 million children die each year from diseases." (Brandy, 293) .
             One foreign aid program was the aid to Greece and Turkey in 1947 from the United States. It purpose was clear and simple. IT was to help Greece put down the guerrilla rebellion which, if successful, could have made Greece Communist.


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