Interesting statistics herehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-23231318How about stopping all aid to countries with an above average score as it's clear where the money is going?Your thoughts.
Nigel Brooks ● 4655d12 Comments
That sort of aid is the best - if you can achieve it.
Philippa Bond ● 4653d
Corruption, plain and simple.I can only cite the case where my church were helping to build a "much needed" meeting house in Nkoranza, Ghana. Money was sent over a number of years until we asked to see progress which was basically just the foundations as the rest of the money had 'vaporised' for 'permits' and 'taxes'. We stopped sending any cash and instead a parishioner took the money directly and purchased the building materials himself. Three months later it was finished.
Nigel Brooks ● 4653d
Nigel with Bribery , is always linked with (Corruption0)The two words are linked when people bring up the subject.What would it be in this Case?
Os A Whittle ● 4653d
It certainly seems a bit much having the Millionaires going off to India to curry favour and give money away.
I agree with most of you. Charity begins at home. Let's insist that financial help is needed first by our own, before we try to financially help others. We need to get our priorities clear before we attend to other demands.
Gerry Tan ● 4653d
- indeed, and that was poverty deliberately created by a hostile (and wilfully shortsighted) Westminster government
Chris Veasey ● 4654d
+1Go to the former mining communities in Yorkshire and South Wales and there is poverty 'on your doorstep'.Why do we send aid to resource rich, asset rich countries when there are kids with no proper shoes on their feet (witnessed in Rotherham) and parents who forgo food so that their kids can eat (see Merthyr Tydfil) a short train ride from Westminster?Most of the state schools in Ealing benefit from the Pupil Premium paid to support the most needy in our society and also have hardship funds to help struggling parent with the costs of uniform and the like.Yes, I am a citizen of the world but I cannot ignore the need in front of me.
Nigel Brooks ● 4654d
Exactly
Go outside the southe east and there are many areas of Britain that need aid imo.
Keith Iddon ● 4654d
"thinking too much about it and attaching too many conditions could mean it never leaving here" , is EXACTLY how the Treasury contrives to stop sorely needed improvements in this country, outside London, getting funded.
Perhaps we have to consider what sort of aid is being given and how more carefully.HOWEVER thinking too much about it and attaching too many conditions could mean it never leaving here.
Philippa Bond ● 4654d
I sometimes wonder whether aid could be considered as bribery as well.There certainly do seem to have been some strange projects in the past.