The US and EU are reducing aid to developing countries, but is this change for better or worse?

Join us for a screening of the award‑winning documentary Poverty, Inc., which takes a critical look at traditional aid models and questions who truly benefits from development assistance.

After the screening, there will be a Q&A with foreign aid experts, where we'll reflect and discuss together what aid truly means and how we, as global citizens, can help the developing world.

Film synopsis:

"I see multiple colonial governors," says Ghanaian software entrepreneur Herman Chinery—Hesse of the international development establishment in Africa. "We are held captive by the donor community."The West has positioned itself as the protagonist of development, giving rise to a vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry —the business of doing good has never been better. Yet the results have been mixed, in some cases even catastrophic, and leaders in the developing world are growing increasingly vocal in calling for change.From TOMs Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U.S. agricultural subsidies, the film challenges each of us to ask the tough question: Could I be part of the problem?

Start film: 19:30

Start Discussion: 21:00

End: 21:30