Isn assistance to people in the developing world a waste of money?
On the contrary, immense progress has been made through development programs supported by AKF USA. In fact, solutions derived from the developing world such as microcredit lending (giving small loans to people especially to start businesses), have been transplanted to parts of the U.S. to help people living in poverty here. One striking example of progress is seen in the remote mountainous region of Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan in Central Asia. After AKF initiated an agricultural reform program, the food self-sufficiency ratio increased remarkably from 15% to 80% from 1993 to 2002.
