Germany to provide $50m to Pakistan for health, education

[Omar1984]

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Germany to provide $50m to Pakistan for health, education

Sunday, January 25, 2009
By By our correspondent

Karachi

Germany will provide a development aid of 50 million dollars to Pakistan for the duration of 2009 to 2013, German Consul General Dr Christian Brecht told The News on Saturday. A major chunk of the aid will go to the health and education sectors.

He was attending an event organised at the St. Patrick’s High School by the by Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre (MALC) to commemorate 56th World Leprosy. Dr Brecht said that the German Leprosy and Tuberculosis (TB) Relief Association (GLRA) has been continuously providing help to leprosy centres in Pakistan. Some other German NGOs had also been providing assistance in health issues to their Pakistani counterparts.

GLRA representative in Pakistan, Klaus Herrmann, commended the MALC and the efforts of Dr Ruth Pfau for controlling leprosy in Pakistan. He hoped German NGOs and philanthropists would continue to support leprosy centres in Pakistan. He expressed concern, however, regarding the shrinking amount of donations being given to this sector in Germany, and advised NGOs to focus on sources of finance other than donations. “The government needs to realise its responsibility regarding leprosy and increase the health budget. NGOs cannot finance the whole health system,” he said.

MALC CEO Shakeel Ahmed urged the corporate sector to come forward to help the poor patients. “Donations from abroad have reduced greatly due to the prevailing financial situation, and so we have approached the local corporate sector to finance health projects,” he said.

Dr Ruth Pfau, one of the pioneers of leprosy centres in Pakistan, said she was very happy that people were contributing towards the treatment of leprosy. She, however, lamented health conditions with respect to leprosy in the country. “I visited Dera Allahyar in Balochistan four years ago, and there was only one case of leprosy. Now 16 cases have been reported because no one has gone there for the last two years. We then trained a leprosy technician to work in that area,” Dr Pfau said.

She said that she had recently visited Balochistan and found that several cases of leprosy had been reported in areas where health facilities were not available and people were not informed about the disease. MAL centres in Balochistan were receiving 10 to 15 skin patients daily because skin diseases had increased manifold there. She hoped to eliminate leprosy from Pakistan by 2009.

Meanwhile, the MALC staff presented a tableau based on a true incident where a blind girl belonging to a remote area of Balochistan got her eye sight restored by MALC doctors. Students of Bay View High School also presented a skit about leprosy patients and received thunderous applause.


Germany to provide $50m to Pakistan for health, education

THANK YOU GERMANY

[A1Kaid]

Thank you Germany for there humanitarian and friendly effort to support and help Pakistani people, we should not forget all the support they are giving us. They are proving funds for upgrading schools in Pakistan, health centers/hospitals, and providing engineering help...

We ought to value this friendship.

[WebMaster]

We should be spending our own money on this stuff.

[roopesh]

Why Arab is not investing in PAK???? All these health foreign NGOs have big ideology about their religion. Definitely going to create probelm with pakistan public.

Let them invest the same amount is other sector where public doenst face them..

[A1Kaid]

Why Arab is not investing in PAK???? All these health foreign NGOs have big ideology about their religion. Definitely going to create probelm with pakistan public.

Let them invest the same amount is other sector where public doenst face them..

Since we did you care about Pakistan roopesh...

Don't bother replying

[Rajkumar]

Since we did you care about Pakistan roopesh...

Don't bother replying

ouch.....that really hurts

[Lockheed F-16]

Very good I am proud of Germany


Auf Deutschland kann man immer zählen, auch in Not!

[TruthSeeker]

Just to put this into perspective, The US has given (not loaned) to Pakistan during the six fiscal years 2002 through 2008:

$8,887 Million in security related aid plus
$3,129 Million in economic and development related aid.

That is, the average non-security aid given to Pakistan by the US for the past six years was: $521 Million/year.

Included in the $521 Million/year has been $57Million/year targeted at child health and food aide.

So the US gives 10 times more development assistance to Pakistan annually than does this German grant. The US security aid has averaged $1.48 Billion per year.

Source:http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf

[paritosh]

Just to put this into perspective, The US has given (not loaned) to Pakistan during the six fiscal years 2002 through 2008:

$8,887 Million in security related aid plus
$3,129 Million in economic and development related aid.

That is, the average non-security aid given to Pakistan by the US for the past six years was: $521 Million/year.

Included in the $521 Million/year has been $57Million/year targeted at child health and food aide.

So the US gives 10 times more development assistance to Pakistan annually than does this German grant. The US security aid has averaged $1.48 Billion per year.

Source:http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf

and the americans get their throats slit in pakistan!
the general public thinks that america(along with india and israel) is their biggest enemy.your money...it seems is very mute!

infact...if you'd ask the pakistani members of this forum how grateful they are to the aid...they would say that they are better-off without the aid...

the german 50million would be handy...just as a thought 50 million is the cost of around 2 jf-17 fighter planes!imagine how much we waste in preparing for war...when both india and pakistan can feed their poor many times over!
(i have this knack of soundig lennon-ish!)

[hasang20]

is just goign to warm Zaradris wallet never getting to people

[TruthSeeker]

(i have this knack of soundig lennon-ish!)

But you LOOK so Che' !! Che' wasn't peaceful like Lohn L....

[BATMAN]

^^ only JF-17 is to be blamed for being such a pain in the a$$.

lockheed F-16, nicht immer! uber besser dan gestern zeit.
bitte nicht laufen. Kans du helfen mich mit deutsch lernen.
Hope deustchland.

[TOPGUN]

Thumbs up for our friend Germany! but lets just hope the money goes to the right cause and the wrong one!! may we be good friends from now on both nations inshallah!

[Zovc]

Just to put this into perspective, The US has given (not loaned) to Pakistan during the six fiscal years 2002 through 2008:

$8,887 Million in security related aid plus
$3,129 Million in economic and development related aid.

That is, the average non-security aid given to Pakistan by the US for the past six years was: $521 Million/year.

Included in the $521 Million/year has been $57Million/year targeted at child health and food aide.

So the US gives 10 times more development assistance to Pakistan annually than does this German grant. The US security aid has averaged $1.48 Billion per year.

Source:http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/pakaid.pdf

What ever US has given us, more has been spent on their WAR. The recent figures released on the spending of 'War on Terror' shows a loss of Rs.2080 billion. This money has been paid for by the Pakistani government to fight your enemy, our ex-ally, for you. So think again before you start you aid bullshit.

Secondly, of the non-military aid about $5 billion was the payment of services provided to the Americans. Yes they classified it under aid.

[metalfalcon]

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What ever US has given us, more has been spent on their WAR. The recent figures released on the spending of 'War on Terror' shows a loss of Rs.2080 billion. This money has been paid for by the Pakistani government to fight your enemy, our ex-ally, for you. So think again before you start you aid bullshit.

Secondly, of the non-military aid about $5 billion was the payment of services provided to the Americans. Yes they classified it under aid.

I wanted to say this to TruthSeeker but anyhow thanks for your Kind reply, i was going to say the same thing.