Justice for the Developing World

The death rate in Africa has not changed much since Live Aid 2005, when we were told that a person dies every three seconds because we have too much money and they have too little.

The Welsh Assembly currently gives £0 of its annual budget of £14 billion to help the starving world. It leaves the job to the proper politicians in London.

We think this should change. If we have £14 billion to spend on our public services in Wales, we can afford to give 0.1% of it to the poor. That's £14 million.

Oxfam tell us that £5 per month, can provide basic essentials like clean water and healthcare to the people who need them most. If this is true, then £14 million a year can be used to permanently lift 233,000 people from starvation poverty.

We know that if we commit money to Africa some of it might go to waste and that we will have slightly less to spend on our public services in Wales. But these people are dying because of lack of basic food or medicine, which we can take for granted in Wales.

We have a Christian duty to help those who are starving and, as we are mostly a Christian country, then our National assembly should spend at least some of its budget to fulfil this duty.

0.1% of our money, to save 233,000 people from starvation poverty.