CARE-ing about aid
Jane Ascroft from CARE is talking about development assistance. Jane shares with us her families’ initial reaction to her work. Her family thought the U.S. spent 10-20% of the federal budget on poverty funding abroad. No guessed anything under 10%.
In truth, the U.S. spends less than 1% on development assistance for the 1 billion people living on less than $1 a day.
What does development assistance buy?
-$1 in development assistance saves $7 in emergency relief
-Every year of education for girls yields gains for health and economic indicators
Jane quickly walked though the budget process, and when it is the most critical for us as ONE members to contact our representatives. Annisa will go into more length on this in the afternoon.
Learn more about aid by looking through Jane’s full powerpoint presentation.
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