A five girl pop group, branded the 'Ethiopian Spice Girls', has been awarded a 5.2 million pound contract of UK aid money to develop their national image in Ethiopia, in the hopes it will help empower women in the country. It's part of a larger plan costing £16 million known as 'Girl Effect' which seeks to promote young women throughout the Ethiopian society through media outlets.
The Ethiopian Spice Girls plan to start a talk show and television drama while promoting their songs with the investment and it's expected the funding will last them until 2018, not bad work if you can get it..... maybe if I start an Ethiopian pop band so the UK government can give me 5 million pound ?
A five girl pop group, branded the 'Ethiopian Spice Girls', has been awarded a 5.2 million pound contract of UK aid money to develop their national image in Ethiopia, in the hopes it will help empower women in the country. It's part of a larger plan costing £16 million known as 'Girl Effect' which seeks to promote young women throughout the Ethiopian society through media outlets.
The Ethiopian Spice Girls plan to start a talk show and television drama while promoting their songs with the investment and it's expected the funding will last them until 2018, not bad work if you can get it..... maybe if I start an Ethiopian pop band so the UK government can give me 5 million pound ?
That £5 million could do wonders for a local council authority here in the UK, for example improve higheays, but no, the charity starts at home thing has gone right out of the window as usual!
Us taxpayers didn't sign up to have our money sent to an Ethiopian girl-band.
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Actually yes we did.
Spending on international aid was in the Conservative manifesto on which Cameron was elected.
The Secretary of State is appearing before a Commons committee today and so the Daily Mail has trawled through billions of pounds of spending to find the weirdest single piece of expenditure to attack the whole.
PS the group is called Yegna. Has anyone other than the Daily Mail branded it the Ethiopian Spice Girls?
Spending on international aid was in the Conservative manifesto on which Cameron was elected.
The Secretary of State is appearing before a Commons committee today and so the Daily Mail has trawled through billions of pounds of spending to find the weirdest single piece of expenditure to attack the whole.
PS the group is called Yegna. Has anyone other than the Daily Mail branded it the Ethiopian Spice Girls?
The idea (and I think it is crackpot because as soon as they have attracted western publicity they will be out of Addis Ababa like a shot and the Daily Mail has just helped them In this) was that this was part of a campaign to turn around the lives of young women in Ethiopia. That is a perfectly reasonable aid objective.
That £5 million could do wonders for a local council authority here in the UK, for example improve higheays, but no, the charity starts at home thing has gone right out of the window as usual!
We've already made a large 5 year investment into our highways. One of the largest in history. And expect even bigger funding for a further 5 years.
The idea (and I think it is crackpot because as soon as they have attracted western publicity they will be out of Addis Ababa like a shot and the Daily Mail has just helped them In this) was that this was part of a campaign to turn around the lives of young women in Ethiopia. That is a perfectly reasonable aid objective.