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 (3)
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.