South African Economic Development
European Union and UK still give money to help Africa, don’t you think it’s scandalous?
Who Cares for Poor People and unemployment in Europe in our own country??
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The European Commission and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) have given the South African government R1.3-billion for a programme to find “innovative ways” of creating jobs.
The grant will be used to “assist the economic sector departments of the South African government”, to accelerate the economic growth rate and “provide more and better jobs for poor people”.
“With the global economic downturn, the launch of the programme is a timely initiative to help create jobs and propose innovative ways for reducing unemployment,” DFID Southern Africa head Helen Mealins said in a statement released at a summit between leaders of the EU and South Africa outside Cape Town.
http://business.iafrica.com/news/1919061.htm
Poor people in Britain & Europe aren’t starving to death or without shelter. £1.3 billion is not a lot of money to help out millions of people.
It’s all very well & good putting millions of Africans into statistics, but they are real people just like we. Why do they not deserve to survive because their government is corrupt?
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