Recent announcements by the Chancellor look to be keeping the UK government on track to meet their overseas aid targets. The aid budget will rise to £7.9 billion a year by 2010-11, on course to meet the commitment of giving 0.7% of GDP by 2013.
The budget for international development is now the largest in the UK's history and will help the government keep the promises on aid made at the 2005 G8 in Gleneagles. For all who campaigned as part of Make Poverty History, this is a further example of the impact that campaigning can have.
Do give thanks to God that our government is keeping its aid promises to the poorest, and pray that they continue to.