How the Department for International Development spends
its our money.
"£1.2 million given to the Trades Union Congress (TUC) since 2003 for activities including: lobbying, hiring new staff and an “international buffet and wine” event to celebrate “International Women’s Day” in the UK. DfID also paid the TUC to hold lessons in how to apply for DfID funds.
£300,000 to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) to “enable them [teachers] to become global agents of change”.
The creation of fake NGOs such as “Connections for Development” (CfD), supposedly a forum for black and ethnic minorities to engage “on issues relating to international development.” DfID created and is the only donor to CfD, providing it with £600,000 in its first two years, yet an independent review questioned “the purpose of the organisation.”
£10 million spent flying poor Brits to poor countries to work for free.
The report concludes: “The money DfID is wasting in this year alone could in principle treat 230 million people suffering from malaria,”
http://www.policynetwork.net/main/press_release.php?pr_id=150This is OUR money they are wasting. In the light of possibility of purchasing the water purifiers mentioned in the other thread, throwing away cash on an "international buffet and wine" event to celebrate "international womens' day" (what??) is borderline criminal in my book.
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Topic: Throwing our money away...again (Read 1545 times)