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Low Hanging Fruit. Central Europe and Development Aid for AfricaBilateral Development Assistance 15 203 603,7Development projects 5 395 501,2Micro grants 346 299,8Humanitarian aid 1 894 897,2Co-financing of Slovak subjects’ development projects approved within the frame of Calls forProjects launched by the EC or Donors from the EU46 030,9Ministry of Foreign Affairs project—Transmission of experience from accession process 24 000,0Refugees 1 867 777,0Stipends for students from developing countries, Slovak language courses 2 251 947,9Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defense missions to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo,Afghanistan, Georgia, Moldavia, Ukraine529 702,0Trainings, business trips, internships 365 739,8Administrative costs 2 456 043,0ODA accounting system 25 665,0Multilateral Development Assistance 40 609 177,1Contributions to international organizations and international financial institutions 4 249 177,1European Union 36 360 000,0ODA 55 812 780,8Source: Ministry of Foreign AffairsSource: Slovak Development Assistance in 2010, MVRO, September 2011.Available at: http://www.mvro.sk/sk/kniznica/category/2-publikacie.Most of the money goes to countries classified as middle income countries such asSerbia, Macedonia and the Ukraine. They are countries that are geographically, linguisticallyand culturally close and it’s noteworthy that we are trying to help them as well. It’s just thatsupport for these countries should not come from the budgets intended for developmentassistance. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect that the Serbs and Ukrainians would findit uncomfortable if not insulting if they know the assistance provided by Slovakia was, inother words, torn out of the mouths of starving children in Kenya, Ethiopia and Sudan.For the sake of being objective, it’s important to note that last year’s data was processedbefore this book was finished, i.e. in 2010, the ratio of funds flowing to wealthier neighboursand the distant impoverished countries improved a bit compared to the prior years.Countries among the most impoverished countries in the world, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mozambique,Afghanistan and Haiti, received 20.4 % of all assistance (€1.18 million) and 22 %, or€1.27 million, went to support projects in low income countries—Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Vietnam,Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Kosovo. Despite this shift, the fact remains that nearly 58 %of Slovak ODA ends up in much wealthier countries. More than €1.1 million went to Serbia249