Aid and debt

Campaigners from Sheffield outside St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham [CAFOD]

More and better aid and debt cancellation help to free up money to tackle poverty

CAFOD has long been calling on the leaders of the world’s richest countries – the G8 - to take action for trade justice, to cancel debt and improve aid.

This has brought some huge successes.

In 2005, the MAKE POVERTY HISTORY campaign won a new promise to increase aid by $50 billion a year by 2010. And at least 23 of the world’s poorest countries have received debt cancellation totalling over $87 billion.

CAFOD continues to focus on trade justice through the Unearth Justice campaign.

Yet there is still much more that needs to be done. We need to ensure that further action is taken, promises which have been made are kept and that new challenges, such as climate change, are addressed.

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