The German government.....with the Ministry of Development at the head of this project, wanted to demonstrate that you could lessen migrant issues in Germany, by helping find potential returnees who wanted to go 'home', but needed help in finding a job.
ARD, the public TV of Germany....discussed this matter today.
The project? It's called "Perspektive Heimat". So far (from spring of 2017 to today).....they've made the program effective enough to connect NINE migrants to leave.
Yes....just nine.
On paper, the government has committed 150-million Euro to the project. Yes, nine people who passed through the door, with a 150-million Euro ready to be spent. Presently, I doubt that they've even crossed the 100,000 Euro point on expenditures (oddly, that part of the story was not told).
I sat and read through the piece twice. It's aimed primarily at seven countries: Afghanistan, Ghana, Iraq, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal and Tunisia.
On paper, and probably via someone's university thesis coming out of the 1980s.....it probably makes sense. It's just that when you take this idea into the reality of today, and you venture into the seven countries suggested....where exactly are employment opportunities.
I looked up the unemployment rate of these seven countries: Nigeria (18.8-percent), Ghana (2.4-percent), Iraq (14.8-percent), Afghanistan (8.8-percent), Tunisia (15.4-percent), Morocco (10.5-percent), and Senegal (15.7-percent).
In the case of Ghana, if you packaged up low-interest or no-interest business start-up loans....where a guy only needed 3,000 Euro to start up his own business, and maybe even employ two or three additional folks, it might make more sense to get into the entrepreneur business.
In the case of Iraq and Afghanistan, stability is questionable and enticements like this probably don't work.
At the current pace of things? Well....this program is designed to run through 2020, I doubt that they exceed more than 50 total success stories.
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