Meanwhile, dozens of humanitarian agencies are clamouring to make an appearance in Dadaab in order to raise funds for their own organisations
with cavalcades of organisations following the flow of money and competing with each other in one humanitarian territory after another for the biggest achievable share of billions.”
Much of the money raised goes to administrative and logistical costs of aid agencies, including the salaries of bright-eyed aid workers, such as the one described above, who drive big cars and live in nice houses, but tell people back home they live in hardship areas where they help starving Africans.
http://www.hiiraan.com/op2/2011/july/fa ... _soon.aspxSomalia became a “business opportunity” that provided jobs to hundreds, if not thousands of (mostly Western) aid agency employees.