"FOREIGN AID FARCE: Rwanda gets £64m UK aid – and gives £30m to Arsenal" This can't be real, can it?

I am a big believer in helping others so I think in the time of extreme natural disasters or similar events if a country is able to help they should, however on a more general basis I don't think the UK should help with foreign aid for the time being.

There will always be a lot going on politically in any country however there is a large amount of political turmoil currently in the UK and there has been for a few years now. Especially with Brexit because it means we as a country have a lot to sort out, a lot of deals to make and you need money to make these things happen.

Also because of these complicated deals that need to be made, foreign aid is something that will be far back in politicians minds. So the foreign aid we are giving is not thought out and is money that could be going to help improve the many issues we have inside the UK.

From the title you can see that recently allocated £64 million to Rwanda to help with various issues and they are doing a three year deal with Arsenal where each year they will be giving the the south London club £10 million

'Rwanda will pay the wealthy London club £10million a year for three years to have "Visit Rwanda" displayed on players' sleeves and pitch-side advertising screens.' Read the article hear

To put this into perspective Rwanda is one of the poorest countries in the world duo to past wars and current corruption and they have a population of under 12 million meaning with that £30 million they are giving to Arsenal FC they could have made a lot of positive change to their infrastructure that would help people support themselves. With such a small population £30 million could go a long way toward making a lot of change that would help a lot of people.

Sadly this is only one small example of how the UK is giving absurd amounts of money to countries that will misuse that money and in the end it will just further fuel corruption and injustice along with it likely be used to further oppress people. Because of the complex political situation in the UK we just can't focus fully on where foreign aid is going so it is constantly being misused and it rarely ever actually helps people in poverty that truly need help, which is why I say we need to stop giving foreign aid so that we as a country are not fueling such blatant corruption.

Currently the UK is giving over £13 billion a year in foreign aid, if that budget was properly allocated inside of the UK it could make huge differences in many areas one being getting UK citizens out of extreme poverty. Then later down the line when we get our own country into a more stable state then we could actually spend time on really planning out our foreign aid budget so that we are actually helping people who need help rather than giving large sums of money to very rich very corrupt people.

At this time in the UK we just aren't in a position where we should be giving foreign aid because we truly need that money to fix the many issues we currently have and then once we are in a better position ourselves we could then make actual positive change in people lives who need it. It seems like we are currently just chucking money in different places so it looks like we are helping and stay in peoples good books, we are putting on a front that we are helping when in a lot of cases we are likely hindering the people we are aiming to help because to put it blatantly we don't have our own shit together so how can we help others get their shit together.

Let me know your stance on foreign aid in the comments, from your perspective whether you are in a country giving or getting foreign aid, feel free to upvote and follow it really helps.