Its all well and good Cameron giving £814 million for an immunisation programme to try and rid African countries of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children. We are giving more money than any other country in the world USA £275 million, France £89 million, Germany £45 million. The programme hopes to save between 1.9 to 4 million lives by 2015. The programme has to be applauded. In a world where one in seven children will go to bed hungry where one in four live in poverty, the statistics are endless. But now in a world that politicians and experts are saying that there is going to be a possible food shortage especially with the worlds climactic changes etc. Will these countries that now have trouble feeding their population be coming back in the future and be asking for food aid etc, when they have another 4 million mouths to feed. Perhaps we should first of all try and help these countries to increase there own food production and provide them with desalination plants, in areas of drought. This will cost billions and I'm quite sure that Bill Gates will help as he is providing billions of dollars for this immunisation programme and other projects.
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