Global Aid
Disappointing Commitments of Summits
A $7.3 billion pledge, including $5 billion from the Group of Eight countries, is not enough to stop millions of needless deaths among pregnant women and young children and is not enough for the G-8 leaders to say they’ve lived up to their responsibilities, representatives of Catholic aid groups said. “We’re disappointed with the G-8 leaders,” said Michael Casey, Executive Director of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace, after the Group meeting in Huntsville, Ontario. “It’s kind of a failure,” said Alexis Anagnan of the French Catholic aid agency, World Solidarity.
Michael Swan
