04-02-2020, 20:12
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Re: Overseas aid
How about everyone sticks to the topic and stops this petty bickering?
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04-02-2020, 21:02
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Re: Overseas aid
So now we all know a review is being undertaken, who objects to our providing aid to people in need of our help?
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04-02-2020, 21:22
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Re: Overseas aid
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So now we all know a review is being undertaken, who objects to our providing aid to people in need of our help?
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I believe in looking after our own people first.
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05-02-2020, 11:48
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Re: Overseas aid
We sponsor children through Compassion. This is a Christian organisation and overtly so. We have had 2 children pulled from the programme by their parents, one (a Ugandan boy) I had developed a bit of a relationship with.
You can give to other charities and groups and these are often better at focusing money to where it's needed. Governments and official giving works at a different level and like all government work has lots of red tape and wastage but can still do vital work often at a bigger level. Both are needed, the big projects over a large area and focussed, even individual, level.
We are so wealthy in this country. At one time if you owned a microwave you would be in the top 10% of world's wealthiest.
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08-02-2020, 10:07
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Re: Overseas aid
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Please cite where I said that.
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Pip, that’s why Kursk put it as a question!
But on the topic, Kursk is way out in saying that morally we should support those in need. There are billions of them.
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08-02-2020, 10:43
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Re: Overseas aid
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Pip, that’s why Kursk put it as a question!
But on the topic, Kursk is way out in saying that morally we should support those in need. There are billions of them.
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If you can’t help them all, don’t help any of them?
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08-02-2020, 12:37
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Re: Overseas aid
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If you can’t help them all, don’t help any of them?
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Teach them to fish sort of thing. Infrastructure to grow their economies. As if you couldn’t work that out.
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08-02-2020, 18:13
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Re: Overseas aid
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Teach them to fish sort of thing. Infrastructure to grow their economies. As if you couldn’t work that out.
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And that’s what a lot of the aid does - as if you couldn’t work that out...
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08-02-2020, 19:06
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Re: Overseas aid
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Originally Posted by Hugh
And that’s what a lot of the aid does - as if you couldn’t work that out...
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-d...y-report-finds
Perhaps not.
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08-02-2020, 19:45
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Re: Overseas aid
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But on the topic, Kursk is way out in saying that morally we should support those in need. There are billions of them.
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It’s true that economics, logistics and politics are not top of the list in my wayward thinking Seph. But my feelings are.
It feels right to help doesn’t it?
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08-02-2020, 19:52
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Re: Overseas aid
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It’s true that economics, logistics and politics are not top of the list in my wayward thinking Seph. But my feelings are.
It feels right to help doesn’t it?
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Absolutely, Kursk.
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09-02-2020, 09:34
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Re: Overseas aid
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Perhaps so..
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: “The lion’s share of UK aid is poverty-focused, effective and transparent – it’s real aid that we can be proud of. But some parts of government don’t adhere to these principles – in short, they’re not delivering ‘real aid’.
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