UK government must not turn its back on China's poorest children
Jasmine Whitbread reports on her recent meeting with DFID in Beijing last week - a country with one of the highest child mortality rates in the world.
Monday 12 November 2007
"As China's unparalleled growth gathers momentum and the Beijing Olympics grows ever nearer the UK government should be paying attention to China - but instead the Department for International Development seems ready to turn its back.
"I met with DFID in Beijing last week, who confirmed that their financial support to the country would end for good in 2011. It is as if the British government is saying that in four years' time all of China's problems will be fixed - job done.
"Gordon Brown has committed to the Millennium Development Goals - but if the government is serious about cutting global child poverty, it needs to keep its focus on China, simply because of the massive numbers of children there...."
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