From the G8 to gap-year students, the West can offer a new, better aid strategy, argues the Tory leader
Families torn apart, homes washed away, thousands of people dead - in just a few minutes. And behind the statistics, a myriad of individual tragedies, personal anguish and aching grief. Yet we all realise what is needed today. It's cash - cash to pay for clean drinking water, for medicine, for food and shelter.
The British people have recognised this and have given generously. And the British people have led the way in Britain's aid effort, prompting the government to step up its contribution from the original sum of £1million first to £15m and now to £50m.
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