There's no way to help family and friends if you're dead. Anyone with a plane ticket should use it.
To where? Who will take these people in. Ask white South Africans with South African passports and without 50000 USD in their pockets who will take them? Nobody. This is the hypocrisy of western governments. These people came there through colonialism but western countries are not willing to take their own back again. Europe has no problems with immigrants from Africa as long as they are not of European descent.