Shower Thoughts: What is foreign aid?

From Nights, 9:15 pm on 8 October 2024

Time now for Shower Thoughts.

This is where we get an expert on the programme to answer your questions about the world and why things are the way they are -- the type of questions that only emerge in the contemplative solitude of the shower.

Tonight: when governments talk about the supply of 'foreign aid', what are they actually meaning?

Former prime minister and former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme Helen Clark joins Emile Donovan to explain.

This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows parachutes of humanitarian aid dropping over the besieged Palestinian territory on March 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Seven people have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach aid airdropped into Gaza, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said on March 26. Six people were also injured in the previous day's airdrop, the ministry said. Hamas said a total of 18 people have now been killed in drownings or stampedes since aid airdrops to the starving north of the besieged territory began. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)

This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows parachutes of humanitarian aid dropping over the besieged Palestinian territory on 26 March 26, 2024. Photo: JACK GUEZJACK GUEZ / AFP