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Originally Posted by The_Hogfather

So much of it goes to waste, as DR pointed out it goes to the wrong places. Things which foreign aid should actually be going toward (like building houses or making water pumps) falls on the shoulders of charities and/or private donors.

I'd say scrap foreign aid, and those who really want 70p/£100 going toward good causes can donate it from their own money toward charities who enact the things they care about.

Charities are unreliable. Its often on 1p in the pound that actually gets to the end user.

Look at it like this; If you saw a child laying starving in its mothers arms, would you take out your purse/wallet and give that mother what you could or would you walk on by because you need that money to buy chocolate and wine for tonight?

I believe most of us have enough humanity in us to give that mother money. Most of us would forfeit wine and chocolate to save someone’s life if we saw them dying in front of us. But why should it take a child dying in front of us to show humanity? Just about every mother in the world would agree that no mother deserves to watch helplessly as her starving child dies in her arms… NO mother.

It costs a family less in foreign aid than what the average family throws away in wasted food each week.