l gave an awful feeling

RE Save the Children, having posted my previous missive I've seen that the chart of figures hasn't turned out as I typed it. Each number typed above should have 3 extra noughts added.

Eloethan - you refer to money being invested rather than used for aid. There is a dichotomy here because if money is donated for a particular purpose, such as water holes in say Nigeria, then the money donated for that purpose is kept in a separate fund and released as and when necessary. If the problem is solved and there are funds left there are a lot of legal loopholes to be gone through in order to get that money released and transferred to another fund.

One poster has commented on the number of children parented by on 60 year old. It should be remembered that many of the charities are aimed at improving the lives of children and it is not their fault that they were born.

Also many of the problems in Africa are tribal and result from the carving up of Africa by various nations including Britain. Lines were drawn on a map without a thought of who lived where.