Buy essay on Humanitarian Aid to Africa for Educational Purposes

There is considerable time and money that goes into the creation of a new textbook. The author has to gather the information on the particular subject, find a publisher, then participate in a number of edits and rewrites. This process can vary from a couple months to several years from start to finish, while the average lifespan of a textbook is only 3-4 years, if not less. Even though this process is extensive, writers release new editions every couple years. Text buybacks will no longer purchase the texts, so they either sit on a shelf, or end up being recycled. For students this can be extremely frustrating; what to do with these texts that are no longer needed. This problem can be prevented by finding others that can use the textbooks.

Objective
While this cycle of textbook creation and destruction is occurring there are millions of children and young adults throughout the world who can’t afford or don’t even have access to textbooks (Africa, 2009). Instead of recycling these textbooks, we need to collect them and get them to the countries and people who could really put them to good use. This proposal will investigate the resources needed and possible ways to get the textbooks to children and adults in Africa and other countries. The proposal will look at other organizations that have accomplished this task in the past. It will look at the structure of those organizations and the steps they have taken, countries they have partnered with, and challenges they have faced. The proposal is not beyond being independent supplier of books to other countries and will look at ways in which we can partner with already established organizations.
Sources
My data was collected from my own personal experiences with textbooks and buybacks over the past few years attending Edmonds Community College and Central Washington University in Lynnwood, WA. I have also researched various organizations that have already established programs to supply other countries with texts.

Need and Background
Unfortunately, today many schools across the [African], many schools across the continent remain in need, and millions of children and adults are still without access to books and the tools to reach their full potential (Annan, 2009).” Africa is not the only country that is need of textbooks; Asian and Central and South American countries should be included as well.
Access to education is one way the youth in these countries can change their life of poverty. They must develop an education system in their country to sustain a better way of life for future generations (Africa, 2009). “According to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 40 percent of school-age children in Africa do not attend school (Africa, 2009).”
There are several non-profit organizations that have been around for a number of years organizing and distributing books to other countries. The two more successful organizations are Books for Africa and The Asia Foundation. Last year alone the Asia Foundation raised over 80 million in support and sent over a million books and journals to countries in Asia (Foundation, 2010). This is evidence that there is a great need for textbooks overseas. By emulating and possibly coordinating with these two organizations we can help supply millions with textbooks that would otherwise go unused.

Benefits
Because undeveloped countries have little infrastructure in the way of education, a good supply of textbooks seems a logical place to start. Supplying these countries with textbooks will not only provide them with a good starting block, but it will also eliminate costs. Eliminate cost will allow them to allocate funds to other important necessities such as teachers and classrooms.
Our goal as an organization is to turn a negative into a positive and hopefully provide a better future for the youth of these nations. We also realize the potential trickle down effects that this impact could have. With a more educated country, they should be better off in solving some of the other major problems they are facing including economic crises, poverty, and malnutrition (Africa, 2009).

Scope
My proposed plan includes
• Ways to raise money
• Possible shipping methods
• An estimated cost of resources (human and buildings)
• Establish partnership with local colleges and universities
• Ways to market our organization
• Ways to encourage volunteers
• Possible partnering with established organizations
The analysis of the current situation
Today, developing countries of the world, such as African countries, suffer from the economic backwardness and steady degradation compared to rapidly progressing western countries, as well as some Asian and Latin American countries. In such a situation, many international organizations attempt to help developing countries of Africa to improve the humanitarian situation because the lack of financial resources, shortage of food and under-developed economy are the characteristics of contemporary Africa. At the same time, the major problem of Africa is not the lack of resources which prevent the local population from effective socioeconomic development but it is the lack of knowledge and poor education that prevents them from the development of effective strategies that can help the local population to introduce innovations and effective methods of production. In such a context, education is very important for Africa but African countries do not have well-developed system of education, while many countries have either to transfer specialists with higher education from other countries or send their students to western countries to obtain higher education. Therefore, the development of humanitarian aid to Africa for educational purposes is very important and it may include the provision of African countries with textbooks and other materials needed in the course of education from the elementary school to high school. In such a way, African students will get an opportunity to learn and get the educational basis on the ground of which they can complete their professional education. However, the implementation of this project raises the dilemma concerning the extent to which such humanitarian aid is helpful to African countries because it is obvious that such aid makes African countries dependent on western countries or any other supplier of the aid.