This presentation was spurred on by a student who was dead-cert against these means of helping out those in even more dire need than those here in the United Kingdom. Victims of actual wars, genocides, gang rapes and other unspeakable atrocities. Of course, we need to invest wisely at home but when we spend less than 1% of national wealth on project overseas - compared with the whoppers invested into our NHS (they give a great service, but why are we expecting them to pick-up the tab for every smoker and lay-about Larry) - can we deny the starving in Ethiopia or the chemically-mutilated in Syria? Anyway, the slides are more erudite!

1. Foreign Aid
• 0.7% of overall budget – investment in
future stability & prosperity in some of
world’s most troubled nations
• Britain NOT biggest donor in terms of
% of Gross National Income or
absolute amount of money given
• £8.45 billion in 2013 (£126.2 billion on
Health Care; £138.1 billion on pensions)

3. Give a Goat!
• In Sudan and Bangladesh a goat
can be a lifesaver, providing enough
milk to keep the whole family
healthy. Goats can also be bred and
sold, allowing poor parents
to generate income to pay
for food, education and vital
medicines for their children.
• Cost: £25

4. Legacy
• British Empire (1689 – 1950):
plundering many parts of world for
national benefit (tobacco & slave trade)
• Determining boundaries in Africa and
Middle East, including failed states (i.e.
Iraq, Democratic Republic of Congo)
• UK has invaded 9 out of 10 countries
globally over course of history…
• Development aid rights historical wrong

5. MySociety.org
• They Work For You – track your
political representatives voting
patterns
• Write To Them – email your Local
Councillor, MSPs (all nine!), MP
(Angus Robertson), MEPs
• Fix My Street – report pot-holes!
• Northern Scot & stv:elgin - letters

6. Personal Touch
• Physically choosing & wrapping a
present for someone who is
desperately in need, may never say
thank you in this life but you could
meet in heaven!

7. Personal Touch
• Physically choosing & wrapping a
present for someone who is
desperately in need, may never say
thank you in this life but you could
meet in heaven!