MRDF welcomes Budget aid commitment

20 March 2013

Responding to the announcement on aid expenditure in today’s Budget, Simeon Mitchell, MRDF’s Director of Fundraising, Marketing and Campaigning, said:

‘We are pleased that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced that 0.7% of national income will be spent on overseas aid and applaud the government for being the first in the G8 to deliver on this 43 year old promise, especially in these tough economic times. We hope that this will set a precedent and that other G8 countries will follow suit.’

‘However, aid alone will not solve the grinding poverty that causes nearly 1 billion people to go hungry. We also need to tackle the injustices which skew global financial and trade systems, and perpetuate poverty and marginalisation; which is why MRDF is a member of the IF campaign.’