Foreign Aid Scandal Deepens: £6.3 Million Spent on Rubbish Projects Such as Brazilian Dance Troupe
An incredible £6.3 million of your tax money has been spent by the Department for International Development (DFID) on rubbish projects such as a Brazilian dance band in Hackney, it has been revealed.
The cash, which is part of the lavish £8 billion foreign aid budget, was given to the Arcola Theatre Production Company in North London, to “provide an access point for developing better global awareness for young people across the UK.”
The Afro-Brazilian dance troupe are teaching children Capoeira, which is apparently an African dance form involving “head butts and kicks.”
The handout is among 31 questionable donations totalling £6.3 million from the DFID’s “development awareness fund.”
Other ridiculous projects funded out of the taxpayers’ pocket include
£105,000 given to “inform celebrities and restaurant owners about the perils of ‘pirate fishing’ in Africa” and £259,000 for universities to “embed global issues into the engineering curriculum.”
Some £60,000 was given to “teach ethnic minority people in North Edinburgh about global poverty” and £208,000 went to “teaching ethnic minorities in Wales about the Government’s Millennium Development Goals.”
A scheme to make Asian teenagers aware of how the “fashion industry hurts developing countries” was given £200,000.
British taxpayers will also be ecstatic to hear of some other recent projects launched with their money by the DFID:
– 11 September 2009. The DFID gave £18 million to an “Employment Creation Fund” in South Africa “to support the South African Government’s work in its three priority clusters — Economic, Employment, and Infrastructure — and to stimulate innovative ways of accelerating growth and creating more jobs.”
– 09 September 2009. The DFID doubled its funding for road-building in the Democratic Republic of Congo from £38 million to £76 million.
– 31 August 2009. The DFID gave £50 million to Nigeria to combat malaria.
