Earthquakes

Tsunami

War

Famine

Volcanoes

What is Aid?

AID is help that is given from one country to

another - usually MEDCs help LEDCs.

There are many types of Aid that can be given.

These people need the basic necessities of life such as:

Food Aid Shelter

Medical AttentionClean Water

And rescue

This is called ‘Short Term Aid’. It helps

people in severe difficulty.

There is also

LONG TERM AID

The aim of long term aid is to help LEDCs become

more developed so that they will not need aid in

the future.The best solution is a combination of Short and

Long Term Aid

In camps like those in Sudan, where thousands of people are staying in temporary shelters, building toilets is one of Oxfam’s most important jobs.

Oxfam are providing more than 450,000 people affected by the crisis with access to clean, safe water and sanitation

We also provide basic necessities such as buckets, blankets and jerry cans for carrying water.

We involve hundreds of community volunteers to educate others about sanitation and personal hygiene

We send engineers, accountants, logisticians, project managers, well drillers, administrators, and the support staff needed

We also raise awareness in the UK to secure funds to help us do our work

Training is crucial to our work. We help individuals to develop small businesses to become self-sufficient

Oxfam also teaches children about hygiene promotion. Each child learns about how to store food and water and why they should wash their hands after going to the toilet.

Write down all the sorts of aid that these people might need.

Success Criteria

1. Write a definition for what International Aid is in very simple terms (DON’T COPY ONE OUT OF BOOK – too long)

2. Write a paragraph on why aid is needed.

3. Make a copy of Figure 4.13 on page 164

4. Underneath explain what Multilateral and Bilateral aid is.

5. Why can Bilateral aid be a bad thing?

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Why can Bilateral aid be a bad thing?

• Bilateral Aid can sometimes be ‘tied aid’

• This is where one country gives to another with strings attached e.g.

The UK funded of a hydroelectric dam on the Pergau River in Malaysia in 1991. The Malaysian government bought around £1 billion worth of arms from the UK at the same time.

Tied aid is now illegal in the UK but still happens in places like the USA.

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Characteristics of Trade: LEDC or MEDC

• A wide range of items are exported• Total trade is small• Most exports come from large companies

which send profits back to the home country• Profits are kept by the exporting country• Trade is helped by good transport links• Most exports are ‘raw’ primary products• Often only one or two items are exported• Poor Transport links cause poor trade• Total Trade is large• Prices for goods stay stable• Prices for raw materials is unstable

Homework• Choose and event that required aid e.g.

Tsunami, hurricane Katrina or a Charity that provides aid in a particular country e.g. Oxfam, Water aid.

• Research how much aid (money) was given, what it was spent on or provided, how it helped, is aid still needed? being given there? what difference (+ve’s and -ve’s) did it bring.

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