WHO DO the billions of pounds of aid help?
World-wide over a billion people still have no electricity, another two billion have electric power only sporadically and unpredictably.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly 700 million people ( the population of Europe ) rarely or never have electricity, and still cook and heat with wood, charcoal and animal dung.
In India, over 200 million people still have no access to safe drinking water.
Every year hundreds of millions become ill and 5 million die of lung and intestinal diseases from inhaling pollutants from open fires, and lack of clean water, refrigeration, bacteria-free food and decent clinics.
Largely because they lack electricity to power modern economies, nearly three billion survive on a few dollars per day, and more millions die every year from preventable or curable diseases.
Dave Christian
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