Response In The UK To The Drought In Southern Africa

EDM number 537 in 1992-93, proposed by Simon Hughes on 16/07/1992.

That this House demands that Her Majesty's Government should ensure that the response, in the coming months of crisis, of this country and of the European Community to the unprecedented drought in Southern Africa, is as immediate and generous as that of Danny Whelan, a pupil in an infants' class at Southwark Park School, Bermondsey, who, when told this morning of the hunger and plight of children and adults in Southern Africa, immediately asked if he could go without his school dinner and send it to help these people in immediate need, many of whom would regard even one meal like Danny's school dinner as little short of a feast in the midst of day after day of worsening hunger.

This motion has been signed by a total of 17 MPs.