Making choices with limited aid
Activity of the week | This activity is for everyone
In this week’s lesson you were developing your problem-solving skills and were in charge of an aid budget that could not fund everything.
Imagine you're still in charge of an aid budget. Choose one area to prioritise (health, education, emergency relief or climate support). And explain why you think it should be at the top of the list.
In your response explain:
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Why you chose it
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Who benefits the most
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What the trade-offs are
You might want to structure your answer like this:
I would fund [health/ education /emergency relief/ climate support/ something else] because [say why you think this is most important]. This would help [say who it would help]. However [say one bad thing which could happen].
Comments (21)
I think I would fund education. I believe that good education will be a good solution to all the other peoblems facing any country. An educated people will be ale to face health problems efficiently.They will also handle emergencies in a good way since logic will be the motif doing this. They will handle the climate issues reasnably enough because they will be able to see the wider picture. Knowledge is power and when chilrden are brought up well and provided with the weapon of wisdom and critical thinking and more of the 21st century skills that will enable them to survive the worst cinareios .However,good education needs good educators that ensure that the educational system will reach the goals that we have in mind.
I would fund education because we can fix all of the other problems like when we can teach doctors to be better or more doctors with funding and scientists that can predict emerging disease disasters or at least warn or improve the equipment that we use to predict and other smaller problems will also be fixed by this.All of us will benefit from this, not one group, the whole world will benefit, but there are a few drawbacks like the process will take time to fix the problems, 10 years plus, where as funding other problems is a temporary fix where this will take time to show results.
i think i would fund education because people need to be smart and when you are smart you can do more activities that are complicated and say if your country is not smart and someone needs to be the but no one is smart enough to be one many of bad things can happen but if your country if smart good things can happen.
I strongly believe that we should fund emergency relief first. While I understand that other things like health, education, and climate support are important, I don't think that they should be the immediate concern. Firstly, many places that require aid are not in a stable situation. They undergo things like war, famine, natural disasters, and other things that threaten their lives daily. Without emergency relief, it is much harder for them to get to safety. For example, in places like Indonesia, there are frequent flash floods that kill dozens at a time. Emergency relief is crucial to bring people the resources they need to survive natural disasters. While I see other people's compelling arguments on education and how important it is on having educated people, I still believe that we should first prioritize keeping people safe and then moving onto other areas. After all, how can we properly teach people when they are actively combating crises? To have proper health, education and climate control, we first need to provide a stable environment, which we can do by using emergency relief.
I would fund health. Human lives should take priority above education, climate, and emergency relief, for a couple reasons. 1, all of these other categories depend on the basis that humans, are alive. 2, Someone’s life should be valued above one persons education, because education can always be resumed, a life cannot. Once a life is gone, it’s gone. This would help any citizens stay safe, and in crises gain access to support. There are a couple trade offs however, in return for keeping citizens alive, we also have to sacrifice any foreign help, climate response, and education funded by the government will cease. As such education will likely become mostly private, and become costly to enrol. I am of the view, that if a country chooses to stabilize its population first, they’d have more opportunities to grow as a country, and would allow further development because they would have the population to support that. As a final example, every child born is at risk of dying with poor healthcare. Every person hurt, has a low chance of survival. Every broken arm, or sprained ankle has to be ignored without access to proper treatment. As such, many deaths would ensue. Many irreversible injuries. Too much suffering. If we prioritize these people, we encourage united communities, determined to make a country better- because citizens are comforted that the government cares. That the government recognizes their lives as important.
I would fund education because it will make children and adults more smarter and it will make them more likely to teach other children to be as smart as they are. This can also help there education very much and they will become super smart.
I would fund Climate Support because it is being proactive. Without climate sustainability, the importance of health and education can be wiped out by the next flood or drought.
Coastal communities, farmers and even future generations would benefit from this.
However, climate supports project can be expensive and technically complex. For example, money spent on these climate support like sea wall is money spent on a local clinic, leaving a feeling of abandonment on people who want immediate health care.
I would fund education because without any education we wouldn’t have doctors/ nurses, we wouldn’t have any people in the military and we wouldn’t have any important jobs.
I would fund Education because when children learn how to solve problems today, they can build their own hospitals and businesses when they grow up. They won't need much help later because they have the "know-how" already.
But, it takes a long time. I can't wait 20 years for a student to become a doctor if people need a doctor to attend to them now.
I would definitely fund climate support because personally an issue we have right now in my country Indonesia is rising water levels causing flood especially in areas like sumatra. The death toll has reached an amount of 1,189 deaths because of lanslide and floods. Sumatra may need over $3 billion in recovery funds.
The cause of floods in Sumatra was an increase in heavy rainfall and deforestations. Funding would also help reduce emissions trough the (Redd+), and help built more green infrastructure. Which is why i believe climate support funds is important to prevent natural disasters that needs a lot of money to prevent.
i would fund health so people don't get ill and if they get ill they wont be able to work and you wouldn't have any money to take care of your city or country.
I would fund health because they say health is wealth. While education and climate support are important i believe they are secondary to health. A sick child cannot learn and a changing environment cannot make a difference in the life of a sick adult. Health is necessary for everything else, when we invest in health: making vaccines, mother child care, making clean water available, the society becomes more stable. Just imagine reducing malaria or eradicating smallpox means unlocking billions and billions of dollars in economic growth as more healthy people can work and contribute to the society.
Funding health means more mothers and children in underdeveloped and developing countries who are most vulnerable to diseases that can be prevented will stay healthy, donor individuals and countries will also stay healthy resulting in global health security. You know a virus can travel very far within a limited amount of time, when we prioritise health, it provides a shield that protects us at home. I believe without a healthy population, no amount of solar panels, tanks, schools will make a nation successful.
Health is the first priority for the nation and people because it is generally accepted for all individuals to have a good health insurance . It makes way for other ideas like education, or even climate regulation because in the absence of health ,we have death and as global citizens we always live in all because only one who is alive get to talk about other matters.
In terms of the people it will Favour ,it is a global problem and will favour all countries .i said this because in every country there is a chance of diseases to start spread it might be very deadly and can claim a lot of live.For example in my country they was a wide outbreak of a disease named COVID-19 (the 19 is attached to the name because it came out in the year 2019) which caused a lot of crisis like market lockdowns, social distancing and and closure of schools, hospitals, businesses and other places where people could possibly gather, this claimed as much lives as it could and finally came to an end with the help of the international aid.
This shows how important it is to always choose health care before other needs arise .
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I think the important part of this question is the fact that talks about education, this is because individuals in the undeveloped countries find it hard to develop their own countries because they lack equipment required for education making them dependent upon the already developed countries and most times leaves their countries in search of other countries where the international aid system sponsor them in other to get knowledge and come back to develop their own countries.
In a situation where people are aided with education and the requirements for it, they will find it hard to constantly depend on other countries. Furthermore, when they are provided with education and its requirements, over time they get to train themselves and learnt to develop their own countries because they already have the needed resources. If education is to come first, at the beginning individuals might not understand it benefits but over time, it advantages will be known to the people .
It will generally benefit every member of the country because when they get developed problems will easily like health problems can easily be solved and other beneficial factors will come alongside the development that will take place.
While this is been done, some individuals are still traveling out side their countries with coming back making it difficult to achieve the set goals, and it has a bad way of affecting the countries that they are trying to fund.
I would prioritise funding for health because life is the most important thing. Without life, a person cannot pursue education, solve problems, or achieve anything else. Everyone is given only one chance to live, which is why the health of individuals should be the government’s top priority when allocating funds. No matter how educated a person is, once they lose their health or die, they can no longer efficiently contribute to society.
When people have good health, they are able to solve problems and perform effectively in other areas of life. Increased health funding would benefit citizens who are seriously ill and help save lives. This does not mean that good health can be guaranteed for everyone, as some diseases have no cure and may still lead to premature death. However, securing people’s health gives them the opportunity to live productively and face other challenges. The health of individuals should be the top priority especially in the government's funding. I think that when one has secured his health, he can start solving other problems. This funding would actually help every citizen who is in the hospital or sick and on the verge of losing their life.
However, this is not to say that they would have a guaranteed good health because there are some sicknesses that may not have a cure and despite the adequate funding being received, it may lead to the untimely death of the victims. While education and emergency relief are fundamental issues, without good health those issues wouldn't be solved. For this reason, I think that health should be the top priority.
I would fund education because everyone can able to gain the knowledge only through education.If education is on the top it is easy to attain the remaining all the other.Education is the passport for our future.
I would fund health as you know health doesn't just treat a disease, it diagnoses mental and physical disabilities ensuring that people are not just surviving but getting mental, emotional, physical support. Funding health will help people work and provide for their family, this will lead to breaking the cycle of property. Some areas are often overlooked by the government, this include the rural maternal care, some rare form of diseases etc. Funding health care will shed light on those area.
One bad that could happen is the inability to sustain this venture, often times organisations or countries start this worthy project build hospitals, buy equipment and then are not able to pay salaries, electricity and maintain the establishment. What is a building with no doctors or machines that don't work. I think we can overcome this by making sure to have a plan for how it will pay itself in the next 5 or 10 years.
I would fund health because our lives are very important. Without health there would be no teachers in school, no active scientists, and no doctors in the hospital. There are many reasons why our health is important, and we should not take it for granted. One may fall sick and he or she may not even have the proper treatment because the hospital does not have proper equipment or the prescribed drugs
We live in a world today where there are numerous diseases some have been discovered while some are still yet to be identified, we don't know the diseases that may come up or their modes of action, they are numerous and we need to be prepared for what may come. For example COVID 19, when the disease was discovered in the late 2019 many countries were not prepared for what was coming their way, many countries underestimated the disease and they faced the consequences for taking it for granted.
Even with all this, the trade offs are still there; e.g., there will be less money for education, emergency relief, climate support and other necessities.
If we choose this, it will benefit everyone in our community today because everyone is at risk of falling sick at one point in time and we all need proper medical assistance.
I would fund health because of how foundational it is. If do not have the basic needs of being able to be taken care of from diseases then how can you shine? Think of how many brilliant minds were lost too soon due to healthcare not being advanced? Mothers suffer every day both economically and socially. Maternal leave is viewed as weakness. Care is virtually non-existent in lower income regions and the masses do not know enough about healthcare to know that a woman having 12 kids is not okay. If healthcare is funded and it is in the spotlight, then scrutiny will follow, people will be eager to learn because imagine all of the other stuff they could learn if they just knew the compounding effects of health. If a deadly plague scourges the country, then climate support won't mean anything since you'll just die. A healthy child is a requirement for learning. This also extends to mental health. So many cultures have the 'be a woman!' or 'be a man!' mentality so ingrained within them that it is perceived as divine. Sometimes, we need science, and sometimes, being healthy; both physically and mentally; is key to surviving and thriving in the world.
However, maybe this may lead to less nurses and doctors being available which need education. But, I say it's good enough those doctors and nurses are still alive. Reducing child mortality, caring for sick family members, etc. These are things which need deep healthcare systems and knowledge.
I would fund education and skill development/creation to help youths earn money (especially unemployed youths) because I believe that those are the most important areas in the world that need funding.
In the aspect of education, I will fund it because I believe ''education is the key to success''. If everyone is educated, I believe that the world/society will be more developed, and there will be fewer unemployed people due to the fact that most people are educated and have the educational skills to work. Nelson Mandela once said, "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
While in the aspect of skill development/creation, I would like to imbibe the skill of creating money in youths who are unemployed. Skills like sewing, website creation, shoe-making, programming, carpentry, etc. I
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What do you think the risk is with scammers? How likely is this?