Horn of Africa

[elizabeth24]

Granny Bee, you are spot on! Well said indeed!

[Angelo]

As usual too little too late for those poor people. I've heard from survivors of the concentration camps in Germany that starving to death is an extremely painfull experience.
On a recent TV interview an African woman in the refugee camp said "where is the Arab Help"? Quite a telling comment.
Whilst the sheik of wherever spends millions on a gold plated jet, his kin are starving to death.
Wouldn't it be a great idea to name and shame those who just don't care. France and Germany for instance have contributed paltry sums of aid. Given the size of their economies. I am Proud of our country for once again stepping up to the mark and showing the world what decency means.
And the rich Arab states where are they on the league table ?

[Sixtyplus]

Angelo I think you are being a little harsh on our Arab cousins. You need to understand with the greatest of respect that they need most of their money to buy British football clubs and then to pay the players wages in excess of £260,000 per week. Perhaps it just slipped your mind.

[Angelo]

Oh silly me !  I forgot.
I cant remember where it said in the BOOK.( that is any of them) You must get hideously rich and fritter it away on entertainment. I thought it said,
It is easier for to pass a camel through a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" Or something like that.?

[Chrisjay]

I as always feel for the people but I cannot help feeling that we just keep throwing money at the problem instead of finding long term solutions which the billions that have been poured into aid over the last 20 years should have produced some results you would think

It is also telling that only (I say this with recognition of the generous people of the UK)  that there has only been £24 million raised in two weeks for this disaster whereas £60 million was raised in one week for the Haiti earthquake (albeit it bout the president a new private jet) - have the UK public finally said enough is enough take the aid out of Pakistan's aid budget and redirect it where it is needed?

[Angelo]

Chrisjay:
I agree with all you say, however perhaps we should pressure our politicians to find another way to help. Rather than give up on the people, who after all are not themselves to blame and are relativley helpless.
They can put pipelines in halfway across the globe to transport Oil and Gas but apprently not Water. The people who run most of these impovrished nations spend our money as you so rightly say, on luxuries for themselves. Parhaps aid should be material, pipelines and the like rather than Cash. ?