World Humanitarian Day

You probably missed the fact that it was World Humanitarian Day on 19th August – in it’s honour The Guardian put together a list of the countries who provide the most humanitarian aid – this basically being emergency relief, rather than development aid. The total amount spent last year was approx £5 billion, with the UK providing approx. one fifth of that – so as with development aid in general, we are right at the top of world league tables for aid assistance.

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