G8 must deliver on Aid for Health and Education We live in a
world where every minute of every day somewhere in the
developing world a woman dies needlessly in pregnancy and
childbirth, and where millions of children do not go to school.
We also live in a world where we have the resources and capacity
to ensure that this is not the case. Aid – the transfer of
financial resources from rich country governments to poor
countries for development purposes– is not sufficient to truly
help poor countries fight poverty, but it is necessary. In 2005,
G8 leaders promised to increase aid by $50 billion, with half of
this going to Africa. On current trends, the promised $50
billion extra will be missed by as much as $23 billion dollars.
Oxfam has calculated this money could save at least 3 million
lives. The G8 need to keep their aid promise, so that millions
of people are able to get health care, and millions of children
an education. - 1 woman dies a minute in pregnancy and
childbirth – adding up to over half a million